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THE

SECRET

TEACHINGS

OF ALL

AGES

by Manly P. Hall

[1928, copyright not

renewed]

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For once, a book which really lives up to its title. Hall self-published this massive tome

in 1928, consisting of about 200 legal-sized pages in 8 point type; it is literally his

magnum opus. Each of the nearly 50 chapters is so dense with information that it is the

equivalent of an entire short book. If you read this book in its entirety you will be in a

good position to dive into subjects such as the Qabbala, Alchemy, Tarot, Ceremonial

Magic, Neo-Platonic Philosophy, Mystery Religions, and the theory of Rosicrucianism

and Freemasonry. Although there are some questionable and controversial parts of the

book, such as the outdated material on Islam, the portion on the Bacon-Shakespeare

hypothesis, and Hall's conspiracy theory of history as driven by an elite cabal of roving

immortals, they are far out-weighed by the comprehensive information here on other

subjects.

For many years this book was only available in a large format edition which was hard

to obtain and very expensive. However, an affordable paperback version has finally

been released (see sidebar).

PRODUCTION NOTES: I worked on this huge project episodically from 2001 to June 2004. This because of the poor

OCR quality, which was due to the miniscule type and large blocks of italics; this necessitated retyping many parts of the

text manually. To give an idea of how massive this project was, the proof file for this is 2 megabytes, about 8 times the

size of a normal 200 page book. The raw graphics files are 63 megabytes, which I've processed down to about 11

megabytes. The thumbnails alone are 1 megabyte, which is about my graphics budget for a regular book.

While the book itself is not covered by copyright in the US due to lack of formal renewal, many of the large color

illustrations that front each chapter in the paper edition did have registrations and renewals entered for them. So these are

omitted from this etext. However, all of the black and white illustrations are included here. Note that many of the

graphics had to be quite large because of the amount of detail, so I have thumbnailed every image in the book. In the

book all of the illustration captions are in italics; I have reversed this in the etext for legibility.

--John Bruno Hare, June 11, 2004.

Title Page

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism

The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Two

The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Three

Atlantis and the Gods of Antiquity

The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus

The Initiation of the Pyramid

Isis, the Virgin of the World

The Sun, A Universal Deity

The Zodiac and Its Signs

The Bembine Table of Isis

Wonders of Antiquity

The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras

Pythagorean Mathematics

The Human Body in Symbolism

The Hiramic Legend

The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color

Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (Part One)

Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (Part Two)

Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees

Stones, Metals and Gems

Ceremonial Magic and Sorcery

The Elements and Their Inhabitants

Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics

The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel

THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

AN ENCYCLOPEDIC OUTLINE OF

MASONIC, HERMETIC,

QABBALISTIC AND ROSICRUCIAN

SYMBOLICAL PHILOSOPHY

Being an Interpretation of the

Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories,

and Mysteries of all Ages

By

Manly P. Hall

SAN FRANCISCO

PRINTED FOR MANLY P. HALL

BY H.S. CROCKER COMPANY, INCORPORATED

MCMXXVIII

[1928, no renewal]

Scanned at sacred-, November, 2001. J. B. Hare, Redactor. This text is in the public domain because it

was not renewed at the US Copyright Office in a timely fashion. These files may be used for any non-commercial

purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

Note: all page numbers in the original were given as Roman numerals; these have been converted to Arabic

numerals in this etext.

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This Book is dedicated to the Rational Soul of the World

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