#manly hall

[entheognosis]

[madamlaydebug]

"The term "Kabbala" (Tree of Life) derives from Hebrew. Some religious systems have a different term for this science. In India and Tibet, the science of the words is called "Tantra". In other religious systems they talk of "formulas". Kabbala therefore is the universal language by which everything was made, it is the incarnation of one or several divine ideas (John 1:1). By means of quabbalah, i.e., the universal language, God has created everything. Thus, from the hermetic point of view, a genuine kabbalist is the highest initiate, for he acts for God in the miniature world, the microcosm and, applying the laws of analogy, he may become active also in the macrocosm (as above, so below)." Franz Bardon

"The theories of Kabbalism are inextricably interwoven with the tenets of Alchemy, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and Freemasonry." Manly P. Hall (33°)

[donotdestroy]

"We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe."

— Manly Hall

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

Death takes man out of the world, but initiation takes the world out of man.

Manly P. Hall

[father-of-the-void]

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves, but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

— Manly P. Hall

[eye-of-mordor]

When stimulated by the disciplines of occult philosophy, the pituitary body begins to glow with a faint roseate hue. Little rippling rings of light emanate from it to gradually fade out a short distance from the [pineal] gland itself. If the stimulation be continued, the emanating rings about the gland grow stronger and a distinct pulse beat is apparent in the flow of the forces. The emanations are not equally distributed, the circles gradually elongating into elliptics, with the body of the gland at the small end. The elliptic extends back from the gland on the side adjacent to the third ventricle and reaches out in graceful parabolas to the pineal gland. As the stream of force becomes more powerful, the luminosity lights the interior of the ventricles, approaching ever closer to the slumbering eye of Shiva. At last tingeing the form of the gland itself with a golden red light, it gently coaxes the pineal gland into animation. Under the benign warmth and radiance of the pituitary fire, the "divine eye" thrills, flickers, and finally opens. Madam Blavatsky thus describes the process: "The arc (of the Pituitary Gland) mounts upward more and more toward the Pineal Gland, until finally the current, striking it, just as when the electric current strikes some solid object, the dormant organ is awakened and set all aglowing with the Akasic Fire. This is the psychophysiological illustration of two organs on the physical plane, which are the concrete symbols of and represent respectively, the metaphysical concepts called Manas and Buddhi. The latter, in order to be conscious on this plane, needs the more differentiated fire of Manas: but once the sixth sense has awakened the seventh, the light which radiates from it illuminates the fields of infinitude; for a brief space of time, man becomes omniscient; the Past and the Future, Space and Time, disappear and become for him the present.

— Manly Hall, MAN: THE GRAND SYMBOL OF THE MYSTERIES (The Pineal Gland: the Eye of the Gods)

[vintage-tigre]

[argentvive]

On display on the main floor are several outsize volumes including the encyclopedia of esoteric thought and secret societies by Manly Palmer Hall. The frontispiece illustration is the (supposedly immortal) Count of St Germain. I took photos of the Table of Contents so you can see the breadth of coverage. The illustrations are his own and NOT from original alchemy treatises