Manly P. Hall believed that philosophy must be a living and relevant guide to life.
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ng others. To Hall, the inner meaning and authentic purpose of philosophy is self-refinement. T
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Manly wrote: “The name Pythoness, or Pythia, given to the female hierophant of the oracle, means literally one who has been thrown into a religious frenzy by inhaling fumes rising from decomposing matter.”
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Finding the book was, in a way, like finding myself
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Egyptian symbolism, sacred
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African ceremonial dances
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able, and lessons, was almost unthinkable to most scholars at the time. The idea of peering into Native American mysticism
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The “Great Book” included Pythagorean mathematics; the mystery traditions of the Egyptian religions; the meaning and significance of hieroglyphs and pyramids; psychological alchemy; the Hermetic-influenced images that appear in the Tarot deck; the esoteric backstory, as he saw it, of the Shakespearean dramas; cryptograms; mystical Christianity; Kabbalah; Native American rites; and myths and traditions and symbols from different lands and civilizations.
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He succeeded, gloriously, in creating a wholly distinctive and beautiful Mayan-Egyptian-Art Deco campus, and he spent the rest of his life there, writing, speaking, and publishing.
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One of Manly’s central principles, which you’ll find enunciated throughout this guidebook, is that there’s no division between the individual and the surrounding cosmos; it’s all one whole.
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