Manly Hall Quotes

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

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#3. If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

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#4. Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. In Freemasonry is concealed a mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs. p. 18

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#8. Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

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#9. All things manifesting in the lower worlds exist first in the intangible rings of the upper spheres, so that creation is, in truth, the process of making tangible the intangible by extending the intangible into various vibratory rates.

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#10. Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.

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

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

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

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#17. Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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

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

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#20. It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.

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#21. Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

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#22. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

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#26. Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.

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#27. Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth.

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#28. 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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#29. Moderation is the secret of survival.

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#30. In order to make simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.

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#34. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

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#35. 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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#36. Wisdom fears no thing, but still bows humbly to its own source, with its deeper understanding, loves all things, for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life's mystery

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#37. 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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#38. The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.

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#39. They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness

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