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Manly P. Hall

Source: The Masonic Trowel.

The early years

Manly P. Hall was born 1901 in Peterborough in Ontario Canada and in 1923 Hall moved to Los Angeles, California. In that year he published his first of over 150 works "The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry". Later in 1928, at the age of 27 years, he published "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy".

The Researcher

In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, an organization dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, metaphysics, and the occult.

The Freemason

It is claimed that Hall was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco in 1953, although he was not raised as a Mason until 22 November 1954 into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , San Francisco. He later received his 32° in the Valley of San Francisco AASR. On December 8, 1973 (47 years after writing "The Secret Teachings of All Ages"), Hall was recognized as a 33° Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite) at a ceremony held at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS). The definitive Manly Palmer Hall Archive states that Hall received the 33°, “despite never being initiated into the physical craft".

The Lecturer and Author

In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles.

Links

• The Manly P. Hall Archive http://www.manlyphall.org/
• MPH audio lectures https://www.youtube.com/user/MPHarchive/videos