The Secret Teaching of the Ages Manly P Hall

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THE
SECRET
TEACHINGS
OF ALL
AGES
by Manly P. Hall
[1928, copyright not
renewed]
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Copyright Status of the Secret Teachings of All Ages
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
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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controversial parts of the book, such as the outdated material on Islam, the portion on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
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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
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony
The Tree of the Sephiroth
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man
An Analysis of Tarot Cards
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness
The Fraternity of the Rose Cross
Rosicrucian Doctrines and Tenets
Fifteen Rosicrucian and Qabbalistic Diagrams
Alchemy and Its Exponents
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part One
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two
The Hermetic And Alchemical Figures of Claudius De Dominico Celentano Vallis Novi
The Chemical Marriage
Bacon, Shakspere, and the Rosicrucians
The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophy
Freemasonic Symbolism
Mystic Christianity
The Cross and the Crucifixion
The Mystery of the Apocalypse
The Faith of Islam
American Indian Symbolism
The Mysteries and Their Emissaries
Conclusion
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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
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BY H.S. CROCKER COMPANY, INCORPORATED
MCMXXVIII
[1928, no renewal]
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, 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.
p. 3
This Book is dedicated to the Rational Soul of the World
Next: Preface
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THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: COPYRIGHT STATUS.

There is more than sufficient evidence online to validate the claim that the work "The Secret
Teachings of All Ages," published in 1928, is currently in the public domain. This is based on the
legal requirement that a work published during the period 1923-1962 (inclusive) had to be
renewed at the US Copyright Office in the 28th year. In practice, the renewals for books
published in 1928 were published in 1955 through 1957.

If no renewal is found, the book's copyright has lapsed. We believe that this can be more than
adequately demonstrated using online resources.

DIGEST

Excerpt from http://www.ibiblio.org/ccer/1928a8.htm. This lists all works properly renewed at
the US Copyright Office for the year 1928, collated by year of publication and sorted by title.
This page relates to books whose titles begin with the letters S through T (ignoring initial definite
and indefinite articles, e.g. 'the'). These renewals were published in the copyright renewal register
during the years 1955-7. The following is the listings under the word 'Secret'. If "The Secret
Teachings of All Ages" was renewed properly, it would have been listed following 'The Secret
Brotherhood,' below.

Registration
Title Author Renewer
& Renewal
... ... ... ...
10Aug28:A1083663
The Sea Mystery Freeman Wills Crofts (A)
19Sep55:R156402
23Mar28:A1069816
Seaports In The Moon Vincent Starrett (A)
28Mar55:R147415
16Nov28:A2887
Second Year At The Piano John M Williams (A)
2Dec55:R160974
24Aug28:A1053060
The Secret Brotherhood John G Brandon (A)
8Nov55:R159072
19Nov28:A4153
Selected Poems Robert Frost (A)
22Nov55:R160092
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23Mar28:A1069531
The Self, Its Body And Freedom William Ernest Hocking (A)
24Aug55:R154877
24Feb28:A1069428
Sergeant Eadie Leonard H Nason (A)
1Mar55:R145799
... ... ... ...

PAGE IMAGES

Page images of the renewals relating to Secret Teachings of All Ages can be found at the
following locations:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/cce/1955r.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/cce/1956r.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/cce/1957r.html

These are organized by the last name of the author.

The following are TIFF files which have the page images from the original copyright office
publication. The files are in the 'TIF' format (which can't normally be viewed in your browser
unless you have a plug-in such as quicktime). You can verify that there is no listing for 'Hall,
Palmer' on the following pages, by downloading the files to your hard drive and then opening
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renewal search.

1955

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1955/1955-1-702.tif (Haldeman-Julius Co. (cont.)--
Hartill)
http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1955/1955-7-1516.tif (Haldeman-Julius Co. (cont.)--
Haycox, Ernest (start))

1956

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1956/1956-1-696.tif (Haldeman-Julius Co (cont.)--
Hebditch)
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http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1956/1956-7-1484.tif (Halevy--Hauman)

1957

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1957/1957-1-713.tif (Gwynn, Stephen--Hamlin)
http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1957/1957-7-1580.tif (Grey, Zane--Hall, J Lincoln
(start))
http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Projects/crr/1957/1957-7-1581.tif (Hall, J Lincoln (cont.)--Hart,
Basil Henry Liddell)

SEARCHABLE TEXT

Searchable text files are available from Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofing for the years
in question.
These files have a complete transcript of all renewals for the years in question. There are six files,
two for each year:

1955
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11811/11811-8.txt
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11812/11812-8.txt
1956
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11813/11813-8.txt
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11814/11814-8.txt
1957
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11815/11815-8.txt
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/8/1/11816/11816-8.txt

We downloaded these files and used a text search utility to look for the following terms: "Manly"
"Palmer" "Hall" "Secret" "Teachings" "Ages" "Philosophical" "Research". We also loaded each
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in context. You can verify this by downloading these files and doing likewise.

Following is the transcript of that search. The numbers refer to the line number in the file that the
given search string was found on. The search was performed using 'grep -in', which produces a
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trace of a renewal for "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" here either, nor "Many Palmer Hall",
nor "Philosophical Research".

"=== Manly ==="
File 11811-8.TXT:
3981 John Matthews Manly.
14795 MANLY, JOHN MATTHEWS.
File 11814-8.TXT:
3807 The writing of English. SEE Manly,
7027 The writing of English. SEE Manly,
12539 MANLY, JOHN MATTHEWS.
12542 Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert and
12546 M. Manly); 10Sep56; R176729.
14514 The writing of English. SEE Manly,
15510 The writing of English. SEE Manly,
File 11815-8.TXT:
16056 MANLY, JOHN MATTHEWS.
16059 by John Matthews Manly and Edith
17073 SEE Manly, John Matthews.
20602 SEE Manly, John Matthews.
"=== Palmer ==="
File 11811-8.TXT:
1802 John Palmer. © 21Oct27,
1805 (W) & Anthony Palmer (C);
2541 Palmer. © 21Jan28; A1065547.
2638 © 4Nov27; A1004988. Jaime Palmer,
2639 M. F. Palmer & Carl Van Sant (E);
7441 Palmer.
7456 Hartsough, Palmer.
7474 Palmer.
7486 Hartsough, Palmer.
10294 HARTSOUGH, PALMER.
17345 PALMER, ANTHONY.
17351 PALMER, JAIME.
17357 PALMER, JOHN.
17364 PALMER, M. F.
17370 PALMER, PAUL L.
19872 with John Palmer SEE
File 11812-8.TXT:
1630 Beeding, pseud. of John Palmer
1634 Palmer (C); 12Sep55; R155568.
14587 PALMER, ANTHONY.
14593 PALMER, JOHN.
16809 John Palmer SEE Beeding, Francis.
File 11813-8.TXT:
1818 pseud. of John Leslie Palmer and
1822 Saunders (W) & Anthony Palmer (C);
12448 LUCAS, WILLIAM PALMER.
12452 William Palmer Lucas and Alfred
12454 William Palmer Lucas (A); 17Jan56;
13847 College algebra. SEE Palmer, Claude
15227 PALMER, ANTHONY.
15233 PALMER, CLARK F.
15235 College algebra. SEE Palmer,
15239 PALMER, CLAUDE IRWIN.
15242 Palmer and Wilson Lee Miser.
15244 Palmer & Ethel Palmer Swantz (C)
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15249 PALMER, HERMAN, illus.
15255 PALMER, JOHN LESLIE.
15262 PALMER, WINTHROP B.
15267 Palmer (A); 15Mar56; R166488.
16058 RAND, BELLE PALMER.
16067 © 7Sep28; A1054339. Belle Palmer
17298 by Herman Palmer. © 22Mar29;
17363 with John Leslie Palmer SEE
19320 SWANTZ, ETHEL PALMER.
19322 College algebra. SEE Palmer,
21080 William Palmer.
File 11814-8.TXT:
1475 pseud. of John Palmer and
1478 Saunders & Anthony Palmer (C);
14371 PALMER, ANTHONY.
14377 PALMER, JOHN.
16268 with John Palmer SEE Beeding,
File 11815-8.TXT:
2081 Saunders and John Leslie Palmer.
2084 Saunders) & Anthony Palmer (C of
2085 J. Palmer); 3May57; R191110.
4514 boys T. B. B. SEE Clark, Palmer J.
4855 CLARK, PALMER J.
19013 PALMER, ANTHONY.
19019 PALMER, BEN W.
19026 PALMER, ERIC, JR.
19029 Palmer, Jr. © 15Mar30; A20428.
19030 Eric Palmer, Jr. (A); 2May57;
19034 PALMER, JOHN LESLIE.
19042 PALMER, JOHN MCAULEY.
19047 Laning Palmer (W); 25Feb57;
19051 PALMER, MAUDE LANING.
19054 Palmer, John Mcauley.
19413 Palmer, John Mcauley.
21645 with John Leslie Palmer. SEE
26917 Manual of Minnesota law. SEE Palmer,
File 11816-8.TXT:
1611 Palmer and Hilary A. St. George
1614 & Anthony Palmer (C); 23Aug57;
9687 by George Herbert Palmer, with
15709 PALMER, ANTHONY.
15715 PALMER, CLARK F.
15717 Practical mathematics. SEE Palmer,
15721 PALMER, CLAUDE IRWIN.
15726 Ethel Palmer Swantz & Clark F.
15727 Palmer (C); 8Aug57; R197239.
15731 © 5Jun30; A24445. Ethel Palmer
15732 Swantz & Clark F. Palmer (C);
15738 Ethel Palmer Swantz & Clark P.
15739 Palmer (C); 8Aug57; R197248.
15745 Ethel Palmer Swantz & Clark F.
15746 Palmer (C); 8Aug57; R197245.
15749 PALMER, GEORGE HERBERT, tr.
15754 PALMER, JOHN LESLIE.
18197 with John Leslie Palmer SEE
20253 SWANTZ, ETHEL PALMER.
20255 Practical mathematics. SEE Palmer,
"=== Hall ==="
File 11811-8.TXT:
2058 I name Thy hallowed name.
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