LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL IDEALS

Author: Hall, Manly P.
Title: LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL IDEALS
Publication: Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1947
Edition: Second Edition

Description: Howard W. Wookey. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.25 in.x 6 in., pp. 51. Red cloth over boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to edges and spine ends. Three corners nudged, with one corner showing. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Dustjacket has significant open tears and creases on all edges and is missing the lower three inches of the spine. Price-clipped. Protected in mylar. Spine and hinges tight. Good / Poor.

Chapters include: 1) The Nature of The Absolute; 2) God, The Divine Foundation; 3) Illumined Mind, the Universal Savior; 4) The Inferior Creation and its Regent; 5) The Annihilation of the Sense of Diversity; 6) The Disciplines of Salvation; 7) The Doctrine of Redemption through Grace; 8) The Mission of Aesthetics; 9) The Cycle of Necessity; 10) Pagan Theogony and Cosmogony; 11) Mathematics, The Master Science; 12) Demigods and Supermen; 13) Emerson's Concept of The Oversoul; 14) Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge; 15) Symbolism, the Universal Language; 16) Ancient Mystery Rituals; 17) A Philosophic Consideration of Man; 18) The Ladder of The Gods; 19) Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins; 20) The Goal of Philosophy.

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) was an enormously prolific philosopher, mystic and author who in his lifetime published more than 150 books and articles, and delivered thousands of lectures. He founded the Philosophical Research Society, dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, and metaphysical science.

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