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Master mystic and philosopher Manly P. Hall dedicated his life to uncovering ancient truths. Explore his legendary books, lectures, and timeless legacy.
…Adolf Hitler, and they'd never heard of him. He's gone. But no one says they had never heard of Buddha or Confucius or Jesus in the countries where these things occur. There is a great wisdom, a wisdom of compassion, a wisdom of idealism that is truly,…
…West, we think of these stories as historically true, although mystics have already done considerable to interpret the mystical experience of Jesus as a symbol of the Christ in ourselves. In India, this practice was followed from the most remote times and…
…the Quakers. They were persons who believed that the answer to our religious problem is very simple. We only have to take the words of Jesus as we find them in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Last Supper and in one or two other short sections and…
…schools. were struggling for domination in European thinking. One of these had to do with a voluntary submission to the historical Jesus as set forth in the Gospels, and the imitation of his historical conduct as the basis of spiritual security. Is,…
…renunciation or detachment, but of the establishment of two levels of values, by means of which we may follow the admonition of Jesus. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." This was the beginning of…
…and the other founded upon something else, probably Paul's knowledge of Greek and Latin culture. In other words, Peter was working with Jesus And Paul had visualized Christ. And it was the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul that became the two great…
…of Greek and Latin culture. In other words, Peter was working with Jesus And Paul had visualized Christ. And it was the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul that became the two great forces in the development of Christianity. The Christianity of Peter…
…Christianity. The Christianity of Peter was very conservative. It was very literal. It was a friend that was being honored. Peter knew Jesus. The disciples all knew him and were deeply personally involved in the story of the man, the life of the man, the…
…teachings he had given, and the final martyrdom which he experienced. Add to this the mystery of the resurrection, and the disciples of Jesus were a small group who loved him, knew him, and in a mysterious way thought of the religion mostly in terms of…
…of him as a person walking with them on the dusty roads of Judea. Paul, as far as we can find out, never saw Jesus. He never met him. He did not know him personally. Therefore, there was a different point of view here. Peter was thinking constantly of…
…gave us to understand the meaning of a statement that was made by a British author some years ago, Gerald Massey, namely, the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul. The Apostles or most of them, personally acquainted with Jesus for a period of several…
…ago, Gerald Massey, namely, the Jesus of Peter and the Christ of Paul. The Apostles or most of them, personally acquainted with Jesus for a period of several years. They were of his race and of his faith. They were constantly associated with him and…
…faith was at the time of Paul. We find this also to be found in the Acts and in several sections of the New Testament. Jesus had twelve apostles. 72 disciples and 500 of the brethren this is what is stated in the bible therefore he had a basic unit…
…worded according to the dictionary. It is something infinitely deeper, more mysterious, and more wonderful. Paul recognized the healing power of Jesus, but he recognized this healing power not as belonging to Jesus, but God in him, or God in the healer. is…
…more mysterious, and more wonderful. Paul recognized the healing power of Jesus, but he recognized this healing power not as belonging to Jesus, but God in him, or God in the healer. is simply using the divine power which was intended for that purpose.…
…honor most those who have had least of the world's goods but have given the most of hope and understanding to the human heart. Jesus, they say, had no place to lay his head. He was poor to the end and has become the uncrowned king of the world.…
…the emotion of love honestly. So we have in the Bible that God loves humanity. We have in the New Testament the love of Jesus for his world. We have all through these great sacred writings a great compassion, a great solicitude for life, a great joy at…
…for a despot. We are trying and have tried in life to be of good value that the divine power may work through us. Jesus told his disciples in substance that his presence in them would always be working his work, his labor. Paul puts it in the words,…
…the truth of the matter remains that the teachings and the Sermon on the Mount the teachings of the Last Supper of Jesus and the various sermons and talks that he gave along the roadway of Galilee these are without question the most important foundations…
…would like to think they are it would all be different. But no one has ever proven that the commandments as given by Jesus are superstitions. No one has ever been able to prove that the world can gain anything by breaking them. But there are many…
…to an inferior state by his own center of consciousness. He must get over all grievances. He must fulfill the commandments of Jesus. He must dedicate his goods to the need of those who are impoverished. He must give graciously of himself at all times.…
…mansions referred to by which man is ultimately to ascend to the fulfillment of his own purposes in the divine life of things. Jesus says, In my Father's house are many mansions. Were it not so, I would have told you. And these many mansions are the…
…have been unable to communicate mysticism. Vainey couldn't do it. Clotinus couldn't do it. And in very large measure, Jesus couldn't do it. the actual mystical experience cannot be described cannot be transformed or transferred into some articulate structure…
…Christ. The problem was that Arius believed that Christ was a spirit that overshadowed and entered into the life or body of Jesus at the baptism. Alexander took an entirely different point of view and declared that in Jesus Christ, God himself as a person…
…Pistosophia, which is certainly of the 3rd to 4th century, there is a detailed section devoted to the instruction given by Jesus to Mary of Magdala. Therefore, many of the Gnostic writings, both the Christian Gnosis and the Jewish Gnosis, do overlap and…
…the Gnostic writings, both the Christian Gnosis and the Jewish Gnosis, do overlap and do definitely have references to the life of Jesus and his teachings. Those that have survived to us under more or less special headings for the most part have been…
…most part have been decided to be of an optimistic nature by church historians in general most of the apocryphal lives of Jesus give strong emphasis to his childhood which is comparatively weak in the gospel versions they also indicate that as a small…
…afraid of and this is perhaps best noted in the Gospel of Nicodemus which is very interesting and does include the death of Jesus and the descent into the underworld and the harrowing of hell in which he went down and the discussions between the evil…
…something that I think is seldom ever mentioned. Actually, as you realize in the Bible, we are told that after the crucifixion, Jesus descended into the underworld and to release souls in limbo and also to the harrowing of hell. Now this thinking has a…
…we have Jizo the benevolent teacher Jizo the bodhisattva of the little children the name is almost similar to our own idea of Jesus how the idea originated we are not sure it probably came from India but we know that in the worlds of shadows where…
…scriptures tell us, and Lao Tzu told us, Buddha told us, and Confucius told us, Zoroaster told us, Moses told us, and Jesus told us, that the actual problem is the accomplishment of quietude. a complete silence, a strained quietness, a dying out of the…
…for a little longer to this right to be physically alive. This was the power of death. This is the power of death that Jesus sought to tell us had no longer any authority. But we didn't understand. We didn't know the meaning of these words. We did not…
…his nature until finally he reaches what has been termed the stage of enlightenment. Now in the description of the transfiguration of Jesus, or in the description of the crucifixion, or in the case of the illumination of Buddha, and again in the ultimate…
…it is simply advice to keep the rules to keep the faith to read the scripture to follow the commandments of Moses and Jesus and that if individuals will do these things most of their problems will evaporate but our present generation is made up of…
…was the mystery of the corn, the wine, and the oil. And in this we find again the Eucharist performed at the Last Supper by Jesus and his disciples, for the bread became the symbol of the corn or the grains. The wine was in the cup of the sacrament.…
…some kind. Again your septenary. And of those great. Remains. Those great monuments of antiquity. Only one remains. The great pyramid of Jesus. The others have vanished in the waste of time, and we know their places by legend only. We believe that part of…
…fishes, the drought of the fishes, the miracle of the coin in the fish's mouth, many other miracles that relate to the story And Jesus in speaking, going forth upon a ship on the Sea of Galilee. The water symbol of the fish is very interesting. One of…
…sheath of grain, as Corrie did, or sometimes the loaves of the Passover. the unleavened bread. So we have an interesting thing. Jesus, the son entering the symbol of the equinox and the sign of the fish, performed the miracle of feeding the multitude with…
…greatest of all vision poetry arising from mystical experience has almost the scriptural simplicity that we find in the words of Jesus. There is very little involvement. The entire sublimity is carried by the order and pattern and by words used more nearly…
…Mercury. And all Egypt and other nations agree that this wonder belongs primarily by right to the great complex of pyramids of Jesus, particularly the great pyramid, and that this was a monument to the God of wisdom, to the God of knowledge, and the…
…sometimes be the substitute for every method of locomotion of all forms of fuel in the world today I went to the pyramid of Jesus and I went to all the interior chambers of it and there are some things about it that are very very strange why should…
…action. He calcines or burns the earth, or exhausts all of his own personal actions. And out of the ashes of this, by following Jesus, he causes the flower of gold to grow. Or as in China, the little pizza tree of gold, upon which are the blossoms and…
…instance, from the immediate speculations of alchemy was that very studious, very dour old gentleman, Father Athanasius Kirchar of the Society of Jesus. He was a typical example of a 17th century scholar. He was within the body of the Church, but he was…
…is in me, and I am in the Father, and the Father and I are one. And that would probably be an implication that Jesus, as a human being, considered himself God, which was not the implication at all. But the soul, virtue, becomes the environment of the…
…obvious facts remain that the mysticism of Paul began to change the shape of the Christian faith. There was to be, of course, the Jesus of Peter, but the Christ of Paul was not a person. The Christ was an eternal principle, a divine power. It was not…
…it in the testaments today we see very little evidence of contemplating the mystery of it that we are no longer speaking of the Jesus of the road to Jerusalem We are no longer speaking about the Christ in heaven as the son of God. We are speaking…
…Paul made from being a hater of Christ to a believer in Christ. And perhaps one of the first to distinguish this concept of Jesus as a person and Christ as an eternal fact. And that this eternal fact was embodied in Jesus, he does not doubt. He does…
…first to distinguish this concept of Jesus as a person and Christ as an eternal fact. And that this eternal fact was embodied in Jesus, he does not doubt. He does not doubt that Jesus was the great teacher of mankind. But Jesus was also one of the…
…and Christ as an eternal fact. And that this eternal fact was embodied in Jesus, he does not doubt. He does not doubt that Jesus was the great teacher of mankind. But Jesus was also one of the sparks, one of the souls in the great soul of eternity.…
…this eternal fact was embodied in Jesus, he does not doubt. He does not doubt that Jesus was the great teacher of mankind. But Jesus was also one of the sparks, one of the souls in the great soul of eternity. He was one of the advanced souls that…
…he was returned to Rome where he was made accountable to the emperor for his conduct he took with him the seamless coat of Jesus and whenever he was called into the presence of the emperor he wore this coat and while he wore this coat the emperor…
…taken away at a certain time. Then Pilate was convicted and executed for his bad judgment in connection with the death of Jesus. This becomes the basis of quite an elaborate structure in one of the apocryphal sections. We also have, of course, a number…
…in his concepts. So the ancient rites often reduced the person, again, to a kind of second child, as is the words of Jesus, that the kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of little children, and that these little children, growing up in faith, growing up in…
…But they do represent a striving after righteousness. They try to tell, sometimes almost like little children's fairy tales, things about Jesus and things about the lives of the Apostles that make these apostles and persons more available to us in their…
…through from the Old Testament and through practically everything that we find in the New Testament regarding the genealogy of Jesus. We also have all kinds of little additional things thrown in to vitalize and make more interesting these classical accounts.…
…for world peace, world understanding, world cooperation. We are seeking to feed the hungry and fulfill all of those requirements which Jesus bestowed upon his apostles. And in order to do these things, we must begin to think in terms of solution and…