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Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

The Companion Volume to The Secret Teachings of All Ages

by Manly P. Hall
Gnostic Library
1929
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Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

The Companion Volume to The Secret Teachings of All Ages

1929 · Manly P. Hall

Hall's 1929 companion volume to *The Secret Teachings of All Ages*. Where the great folio shows the symbols, this book walks through the philosophy that gave rise to them: Pythagoras and the mathematics of the cosmos, Plato and the world of forms, the Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries, the Hermetic and Neoplatonic schools, and the silent transmission that carried the inner teaching from the temples of Egypt to the academies of Greece and into the Christian and Islamic mystical traditions. Read it after the folio, or before, and the symbols begin to speak.

Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

A companion to The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Where the folio gathers the symbols of the Western mystery tradition into one room, this volume walks slowly through the philosophy underneath them. Twenty lectures on the nature of reality, the basis of philosophy, the doctrine of redemption through grace, the great schools of antiquity, and the symbolic ladder by which the seeker climbs back to the source.

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