The Hiramic Legend E-Book

Manly Palmer Hall

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love. Despite statements to the contrary, Masonry is a religion seeking to unite God and man by elevating its initiates to that level of consciousness whereon they can behold with clarified vision the workings of the Great Architect of the Universe. From age to age the vision of a perfect civilization is preserved as the ideal for mankind. In the midst of that civilization shall stand a mighty university wherein both the sacred and secular sciences concerning the mysteries of life will be freely taught to all who will assume the philosophic life. Here creed and dogma will have no place; the superficial will be removed and only the essential be preserved. The world will be ruled by its most illumined minds, and each will occupy the position for which he is most admirably fitted.
The great university will be divided into grades, admission to which will be through preliminary tests or initiations. Here mankind will be instructed in the most sacred, the most secret, and the most enduring of all Mysteries: Symbolism. Here the initiate will be taught that every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle. Here mankind will learn that CHiram (Truth) lies buried in every atom of Kosmos; that every form is a symbol and every symbol the tomb of an eternal verity. Through education – spiritual, mental, moral, and physical – man will learn to release living truths from their lifeless coverings.

Leseprobe

Τεληστήριον

MANLY PALMER HALL

THE HIRAMIC LEGEND

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Title: The Hiramic Legend

Author: Manly Palmer Hall

From The Secret Teachings of all Ages, 1928

Publishing Series: Telestèrion

Editing and preface by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN e-book version: 979-12-5504-075-0

Cover image: Stained glass window showing Hiram Abiff (Chester, England, St John’s Church)

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

© 2022 Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Via del Fiordaliso 14 - 59100 Prato

[email protected]

www.auroraboreale-edizioni.com

Questa pubblicazione è soggetta a copyright. Tutti i diritti sono riservati, essendo estesi a tutto e a parte del materiale, riguardando specificatamente i diritti di ristampa, riutilizzo delle illustrazioni, citazione, diffusione radiotelevisiva, riproduzione su microfilm o su altro supporto, memorizzazione su banche dati. La duplicazione di questa pubblicazione, intera o di una sua parte, è pertanto permessa solo in conformità alla legge italiana sui diritti d’autore nella sua attuale versione, ed il permesso per il suo utilizzo deve essere sempre ottenuto dall’Editore. Qualsiasi violazione del copyright è soggetta a persecuzione giudiziaria in base alla vigente normativa italiana sui diritti d’autore.

L’uso in questa pubblicazione di nomi e termini descrittivi generali, nomi registrati, marchi commerciali, etc., non implica, anche in assenza di una specifica dichiarazione, che essi siano esenti da leggi e regolamenti che ne tutelino la protezione e che pertanto siano liberamente disponibili per un loro utilizzo generale.

MANLY PALMER HALL

AND THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

By Nicola Bizzi

Manly Palmer Hall, writer, lecturer, Freemason and one of the greatest mystics and esotericists of the last two centuries, was born on March 18 1901 in Peterborough, Ontario (Canada) to Louise Palmer Hall, a chiropractor and member of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, and William S. Hall, a dentist. The younger Hall is said to have never known his father.

In 1919, Hall moved from Canada to Los Angeles, California, with his maternal grandmother to reunite with his birth mother who was living in Santa Monica. Upon meeting her, he was almost immediately drawn to the arcane world of mysticism, esoteric philosophies, and their underlying principles. Hall delved deeply into «teachings of lost and hidden traditions, the golden verses of Hindu Gods, Greek philosophers and Christian mystics, and the spiritual treasures waiting to be found within one’s own soul».

In 1919, Hall took over as preacher of the Church of the People, located at Trinity Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. Less than a year later, Hall booked his first lecture on the topic of reincarnation and on 17 May 1923 was ordained a minister in the Church of the People. Only a few days later, he was elected “permanent pastor” of the church. His first publications consisted of two small pamphlets, The Breastplate of the High Priest (1920), and Wands and Serpents (1927). Between 1922 and 1923 he wrote three books: The Initiates of the Flame (1922), The Ways of the Lonely Ones (1922), and The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (1923).