My Introduction
My introduction to this web site is a collection of selected passages from Manley Palmer Hall’s book, “The Secret Teachings of All Ages.”
For those of you wondering if these pieces contain any veracity, Hall produced this book in his early twenties.
That he was very well connected with all of the materials therein and also with the organizations that espoused them cannot logically be doubted.
I also wish to share a story which inspired my entire life time of both questing and sharing. Within Howard Pyle’s book, The Wonder Clock, there is a most amazing piece entitled “Which is Best.” Howard Pyle’s book is available on line, Free; so please find it and read that story. It is a doorway to a very remarkable path.
You may want to read all of these selections several times in order to manage the real impact of their implications.
Page 20: “the question may legitimately be propounded: If these ancient mystical institutions were of such ‘great pith and moment,’ why is so little information now available concerning them and the arcana they claimed to possess? The answer is simple enough: The Mysteries were secret societies, binding their initiates to inviolable secrecy, and avenging with death the betrayal of their sacred trusts. Although these schools were the true inspiration of the various doctrines promulgated by the ancient philosophers, the fountainhead of these doctrines was never revealed to the profane. [that means you and me].”
Page 40: “The path to immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheel of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheathes of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars [ever lost at a video game and been forced to return to the very beginning to start over?], and await a new beginning. Those who are saved by the light of the mystery which I have revealed to you, O Hermès, and which I now bid you to establish among men, shall deliver themselves up to the Light and shall be absorbed into the Light, and in the Light they shall become Powers in God. This is the way of Good and is revealed only to them that have wisdom [does it look like a “closed” shop to you?] .”
Page 48: “Offer not your right hand easily to anyone. This warns the disciple to keep his own counsel and not offer wisdom and knowledge (his right hand) to such as are incapable of appreciating them. The hand here represents Truth, which raises those who have fallen because of ignorance; but as many of the unregenerate do not desire wisdom they will cut off the hand that is extended in kindness to them. Time alone can effect the redemption of the ignorant masses.”
Page 76: “The mysteries were therefore established for the purpose of unfolding the nature of man according to certain fixed rules which, when faithfully followed, elevated the human consciousness to a point where it was capable of cognizing its own constitution and the true purpose of existence. This knowledge of how man’s manifold constitution could be most quickly and most completely regenerated to the point of spiritual illumination constituted the secret, or esoteric, doctrine of antiquity. Certain apparently physical organs and centers are in reality veils or sheaths of spiritual centers. What these were and how they could be unfolded was never [this is referring to us] revealed to the unregenerate, for philosophers realized that once he understands the complete working of any system, a man may accomplish a prescribed end without being qualified to manipulate and control the effects which he has produced. For this reason long periods of probation were imposed, so that the knowledge of how to become as the gods might remain the sole possession of the worthy.”
What is perhaps left out of Hall’s analyses is the quite apparent fact that the celestial rulers, in perfect collaboration and collusion with the earth bound rulers, never fail at completely inhibiting, deluding, undermining, and preventing any progress to be made by the “unchosen masses [referring to all of us here]” imprisoned in this lowest of material planes, such that, the “unregenerated” [us again] are necessarily blamed for their lack of wisdom by the very entities that are ensuring it.
I find that rather fascinating; so much so, that I am sharing all that I have observed, both here and beyond.
Please be aware that we have all been (without exception) lied to, continuously, in every facet of our existences, here in this lowest of material planes [yes, this life here on earth]: educationally, politically, historically, religiously, socially, militarily, financially, medically, philosophically, etc. We are, and have been for eons, unwitting prisoners in this outer darkness, this realm of eternal damnation, recycling continuously back here endlessly through that fated process called reincarnation.
Remember, if you can, that the most perfect lies are those that are never questioned.
This is a “wake-up” call, folks.
Blessings
T W Gilbert