Spiritual Integrity
Cover. Manly Palmer Hall [1901 - 1990].
Preface
These texts are replicated from the dozens of books, hundreds of essays, and numerous lectures by scholar, philosopher, and 'mystic' Manly Palmer Hall [1901 - 1990].
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Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire
When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity.
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Confucius and the Computer
'... the movies came along and they were to change the history of the world. We were to be on the verge of the greatest educational medium Humanity has ever known. We were told that we were going to change the whole history of the race; that we have developed something that can could be of the greatest value and the greatest importance to the unfoldment of knowledge, to these expanding of human horizons, and the means by which wisdom and understanding could be brought directly into the theater or into human life. I think we hardly need to dilate [enlarge] on this, as to what really happened. A comparatively simple and inexpensive medium, which was really a kind of home industry for a long time, gradually bludgeoned into something that is so terrific that no one can stand the weight of the tremendous power this thing has to destroy Peace of Mind.'
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'To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.'
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The Secret of the 33 Degree Freemason
'... [the human being] goes to school but he is not taught to think, he is not taught to make use his own resources. He's told to accept, to read the textbook and come to the same answer. If he does not come to that answer, he will not graduate, and if he will not graduate or does not graduate from school, then he cannot enter the institutions of higher learning; and if he doesn't then add to those, and become proficient in the beliefs that they hold, and become a willing perpetuator of the status quo. if you will not do all these things, he is an outcast, he is then regarded as simply being a mediocre person ...'
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Time is not for Wasting
'... all people ... must learn to love beauty, and love life as it is. Instead of going out to criticise everything they see and do, they've got to learn the dignities of Life. Yhey've got to learn to appreciate, emotionally and mentally the beauties with which this world has been naturally endowed: the sunsets, the gardens, the flowers, the trees. These things are remedies for hate, suspicion, and despair. Little by little, the natural universe, if given an opportunity, can bring great consolation to our hearts and minds. We adually learn that we live in a beautiful world, and if it looks a little otherwise, it's largely because of us. That actually we live in a well-disciplined pattern. We live in a world that is almost like a great clock, in which everything runs on time. We're living in a world in which laws rules and patterns are highly protected, but we have taken the attitude that protection, is a kind of imprisonment.'
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The Secret of the 33 Degree Freemason
'... we are more and more aware that we are the victims of something that is not right ...'