The Collected Works of Eugene Halliday, Vol 4: Contributions from a Potential Corpse, Book 3 - Hardcover

Halliday, Eugene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1872240062 ISBN 13: 9781872240060

Publisher: The Melchisedec Press, 1991

Synopsis

"Contributions from a Potential Corpse" was written by Eugene Halliday between the 1950s and the 1980s. In his Foreword Halliday writes "What drives me incessantly to think, to read, to write? The will to love. Nietzsche says "the will to power". But I say that the will to power is perverted love, and that love wills to love, and that love is work for the development of the functional potentialities of being, infinitely." Chapter One opens with a meditation on the meaning of death containing a very positive message. The first five chapters of Book 1 are an excellent 'primer' of Halliday's teaching. Subsequent sections of the book are aphoristic, a series of meditations on many topics of profound esoteric interest. Book 2 was written in the mid-1970s and contains many graphic illustrations - Halliday was an artist, and used his pen to sketch as well as to write, his diagrams clearly illuminating his writings. Book 3 opens with "Ecclesia Para Hexon", a favourite concept of the author's: the body of faithful souls who worship the God of gods. The second part returns to shorter aphoristic writings, the whole illustrated with diagrams. Book 4 continues in aphoristic form covering many and various topics. The four volumes are a manual of self-development for Everyman and Everywoman, a unique treasury of wisdom.

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About the Author

Eugene Halliday (1911-1987) was an accomplished artist, writer and speaker. He was a teacher of philosophy and a proponent of both the idea and the fact that each and every individual is essentially responsible for the life in which they are centred; and that they owe it to themself to develop that life. He taught that self-conscious reflexion and integrated focusing of one’s energies will allow the individual to become aware of an internal life force which is its own real and natural authority. Halliday’s parents were in the theatre and he had an unusual upbringing which supported his interest in, and ability to understand, relate and interpret concepts of philosophy, psychology, the scriptures of major religions and the science of his day. From 1928 he studied at the Manchester School of Art and exhibited work at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. During WW2 he was a conscientious objector and became the catalyst for a community of creative people, some of whom had emigrated from Nazi Germany. He was the founder of two organisations, the International Hermeneutic Society (I.H.S.) and the Institute for the Study of Hierological Values (Ishval). He continued to write, lecture and teach until his death in 1987. He was a man wholly dedicated to the development of the potential of his fellow beings―which was his definition of Love.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Melchisedec Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872240062
• ISBN 13: 9781872240060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 134
• Editor: Mahlowe David