
Ensouling of Humanity
Manly Palmer HallJonathan
May 10, 20261958Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
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Lecture 4 of the "Esoteric Anthropology" series. Recorded in 1958 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.
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The transcript argues that anthropology, psychology, and metaphysics converge around the idea of soul as a cultural and psychic force. It presents culture as a motion of being through body, traces religious and philosophical views of embodiment and immortality, and claims civilizations rise or decline according to how well they let being express itself through culture.
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