Manly Hall Quotes

#1. Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.

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#2. Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history ... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

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#3. Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

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#4. There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality ... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

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#5. Moderation is the secret of survival.

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#6. It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

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#7. It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.

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#8. The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

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#9. Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

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#10. Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

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#11. The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

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#12. In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms ... the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

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#13. It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.

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#14. An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

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#15. The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

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#16. Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

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#17. 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.

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#18. The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

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#19. Man's security comes from within himself.

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#20. Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

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