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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. *** 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.
This was the single most accurate summary of every Taurus, Pisces, Scorpio, Virgo and Cancer I have ever known. I thought my Tarot deck was painfully honest, but this diminutive librito packed the truthful punch of a much larger tome. Manly Palmer called out every single character defect me, my ex wives and all my children ever imagined and reminded me of a few other attributes kept hidden deep in the cave of denial.
Spot on analysis of my zodiac sign and of people I know in other zodiac signs. Make no mistake, the descriptions are in no way superfluous or purely complimentary. Hall offers a frank, candid and, at times, uncomfortable, characterization of each signs personality and affects. He has a way of piercing the fluff laden in other astrology books gets right to the heart of the matter.
Enjoyed this book but feel some signs are a little scant in gender -specific information or comparisons. It's fun to pick out the traits in the people you know, or think you do.
This book wasted my time. I’m really into Astrology, have read many books about it, but this one really was just off the mark. It didn’t seem to have a point, wandered off in any old direction, and didn’t bring anything together. Pass.
This book was written before the "Peter Pan-ners" and PC people could object. You want the real schtick; here it is warts and all. For serious students only.