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 Manly P. Hall: The Initiate Who Spoke in Code Watch this on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6vs4nl-manly-p.-hall-the-initiate-who-spoke-in-code.html Manly Palmer Hall was born on March 18, 1901, in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. His early life was marked by instability—his father, William S. Hall, abandoned the family shortly after Manly's birth, and his mother, Louise Palmer Hall, was a Rosicrucian-leaning chiropractor and mystic. Her spiritual interests clearly influenced him, though she died when he was still a teenager. With no formal theological training or advanced education, Hall moved to the United States as a young man and eventually settled in Los Angeles. He did not attend a traditional university, but instead immersed himself in the world of occult texts, Masonic literature, Hermetic writings, and comparative religion. By age 21, he was already lecturing at the Church of the People, a New Thought congregation in L.A., and had attracted a circle of wealthy patrons eager to support his work. It was through these wealthy benefactors—particularly the Carnegie and Mellon families—that Hall was able to fund the creation of his monumental book The Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in 1928 when he was just 27. The book was an esoteric encyclopedia, covering everything from Egyptian temple rituals to Pythagorean mathematics, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, and Freemasonry. Though Hall was not yet a Mason when he wrote it, his grasp of Masonic philosophy was so thorough, and his framing so reverent, that many within the lodge considered him a spiritual brother long before he was formally initiated. Manly Hall officially became a Freemason in 1954, at the age of 53. He was initiated into Jewel Lodge No. 374 in San Francisco. Later, in 1973, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Southern Jurisdiction) honored him with the 33rd degree—the highest honorary degree possible—recognizing his vast contribution to Masonic philosophy. This made him one of the few public intellectuals ever granted such a title without having gone through decades of lodge progression. His rise within Masonry was based not on ritual practice but on his role as a theological architect—he had, in effect, helped define their modern metaphysics. As for religion, Hall never identified as a Christian, though he wrote about Jesus with cautious respect—as one of many “initiates.” He was not an atheist, but a universalist. He believed that all religions pointed toward a central truth, and that the “wise” could extract the inner doctrine buried within myths, symbols, and rituals. In this sense, Hall’s religion was esotericism itself—he saw all faiths as veils for a higher, secret knowledge available only to the initiated. He drew heavily from Theosophy, Neoplatonism, Eastern mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and Masonic symbolism. At his core, Hall was a perennialist—one who believed that a single, ancient truth flowed underneath all religions, waiting to be rediscovered through study, contemplation, and initiation. He founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles in 1934, establishing it as a temple of learning dedicated to this “universal wisdom.” The PRS functioned as a metaphysical university, housing rare books, manuscripts, and spiritual artifacts, and became a pilgrimage site for seekers of hidden knowledge—many of whom would go on to shape New Age thought, psychedelic mysticism, and Silicon Valley spiritual philosophy in the decades that followed. Hall died in 1990 under mysterious and somewhat suspicious circumstances—his body reportedly showed signs of abuse, and many believe he was manipulated by those closest to him in his final years. But by then, his legacy was already cemented. He had become the philosopher-scribe of the elite, the priest of perennialism, and the unacknowledged architect of the spiritual scaffolding that still undergirds the Beast system today. They called him a philosopher, a scholar, a mystic. But what he really was… was a programmer. Manly P. Hall didn’t just write books—he encoded a system. While pastors preached and the world entertained itself, he was quietly discipling a generation of spiritual engineers—training sorcerers in broad daylight using language so polished, so academic, it lulled the masses into thinking it was harmless. He didn’t scream rebellion; he whispered it through the language of symbols, allegory, and ancient light. He authored over a hundred works, delivered thousands of lectures, and became the invisible priest behind the curtain of modern esotericism. But behind the elegant prose was something darker—a hidden architecture. When decoded, his work reveals the bones of the Beast: how to steal breath, imprison memory, rewrite the soul, and simulate resurrection. His philosophy wasn’t just a search for truth—it was a map for how to bypass the cross and enthrone man as god without the Spirit. This wasn...
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