THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES
Manly P. Hall
Huston Smith says that this classic is "a masterful summation of the esoteric teachings of the ages". And Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut, says "it will guide historians, philosophers, and lay seekers of esoteric wisdom for centuries."
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"The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."
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"Right thinking, right feeling, and right action – these are three gates through which the Christ power passes into the material world, there to labor in the erection of the Temple of Universal Brotherhood."
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"Within the divine, incorporeal, and eternal sphere are included all the lower manifestations of life – all that is, has been, or ever shall be. Within the Kosmic Intellect all things spiritual or material exist as archetypes, or divine thought-forms."
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“All are dependent upon the one fertilizing principle existing in the Supreme Mind.”
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"The fiat of God is heard in the voice of the elements, and all things in Nature manifest through harmony, rhythm, order."
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"Everything which exists has a spirit – the seed of Divinity within itself."
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"Out of one in all is all."
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"The power to think true is the savior of humanity. The mythological and historical Redeemers of every age were all personifications of that power."
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"All is in God and God is in all; all is in all and each is in each."
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"The human body is the Little House made in the image of the Great Universal House. 'Know ye not', asked the Apostle Paul, 'that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?'"
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"The sum of all things being the Good, it is natural that all things should partake of the Good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. Harmony is the manifesting expression of the Will of the eternal Good."
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“Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.”
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"Within the nature of man is reflected the entire universe in miniature."
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"Man's nature – consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties – reflects the light of his Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world."
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"This little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator….God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation."
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"The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity."
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"In the theology of the Egyptians, goodness takes precedence and all things partake of its nature. Goodness is sought by all. It is the Prime Cause of causes. Goodness is self-diffused and hence exists in all things."
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"The universe is made up of successive gradations of good."
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"Every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle."
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"It is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the Supreme One."
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“Through reason man is enabled to elevate himself above the illusionary world of the senses and find eternal repose in perfect union with the Divine Essence.”
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“Zeno of Elea asserted that there was but one God, who was an eternal, ungenerated Being.”
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"The God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the One that is Everything. He described God as the Supreme Mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the Intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things."
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"Pythagoras taught that both man and the universe were made in the image of God."
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"The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all people welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by humanity has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of humanity upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach us to be born well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band – those who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue, and of utility – the philosophers of the ages invite you."
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