The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel

by Manly P. Hall

"A doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute. The necessary union of ideas and signs, the consecration of the most fundamental realities by the primitive characters; the Trinity of Words, Letters, and Numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the Word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of Pythagoras; a theology summed up by counting on one's fingers; an Infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten ciphers and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle,--these are all the elements of the Kabalah. These are the elementary principles of the written Word, reflection of that spoken Word that created the world!"
(Albert Pike, in "Morals and Dogma")

187 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 8, 2012

About the author

Canadian born, Manly Palmer Hall is the author of over 150 published works, the best known of which are Initiates of the Flame, The Story of Healing, The Divine Art,Aliens Magick and Sorcery The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
He was also the author of a masonic curiosity, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry in 1923, more than thirty years before he joined a lodge. The preface of later editions states "At the time I wrote this slender volume, I had just passed my twenty-first birthday, and my only contact with Freemasonry was through a few books commonly available to the public." Later, in 1944, he wrote The Secret Destiny of America which popularized the myth of a masonic purpose for the founding of the USA. In 1950 he weighed in again on the meaning of Freemasonry with his booklet: Masonic Orders of Fraternity.
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Initiated: June 28, 1954
Passed: September 20, 1954
Raised November 22, 1954
Jewel Lodge No. 374
Source: Grand Lodge of California records ; William R. Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, vol. ii. Trenton, MO. : Missouri Lodge of Research / Educational Bureau, Royal Arch Mason Magazine, 1958. p. 165.

Reviews

[AttackGirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can you imagine how many groups have started how many men, women. How much influence this book this concept has had since it’s inception. Even I have read and considered at least 3 times along with its various offshoots, it’s symbols, it’s talismans, it’s ideas and considerations. Imagine those peoples in their “secret” groups all around the planet moving buildings across the world for what purpose really ? Power? Money? A better life? Or perhaps knowledge, or for answers to the ultimate questions of what? God, Gods, the creator God, the Slaughter God of destruction and ruin….

What if you find the answer then what another question down into the rabbit hole of time. Isn’t time just a concept? What if you find and see your god the creator of all that you are, all that you have, and all that you have become, and all you will ever be not just once but everyday in the morning mirror ? What if you see in the eyes of your sex mate or perhaps in the eyes of your child?

Perhaps you get and know all, then what? You have won the lottery now what? You have swam through the tides arriving at another land now what?

As the sun sets have you considered tomorrow?

[Jerimy Stoll · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. There was a lot of in-depth knowledge about the Qabbalah and the Quasi-Christian group known as the Rosicrucians. I got a lot out of reading through this book.