Lectures Ancient Philosophy Introduction by Hall Manly (23 results)

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Lectures on Ancient Philosophy and Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure 1.79. Book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Softcover book, light wear to cover and book edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback in very good + condition.

revised edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 513pp., text ills., index, Companion to The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

Condition: New. Wookey, Howard W (illustrator).

Condition: New. Wookey, Howard W (illustrator).

Super octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 522pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to spine & boards, light soiling to board edges, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, bookseller's ink stamp to fep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some archival tape repairs, heavy fading to spine & covers, price alteration in ink to rear cover, light soiling to covers, price clipped, moderate tanning to internal sides).

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Second Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good / very good minus. Book: very very slight wear to binding; straight; hinges strong; about 3 pages with highlighting. Jacket in new mylar protector; jacket has light wear and scuffing; very slight soiling. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Second Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good / very good minus. Book: tail of spine a bit soft; slight wear here and there to edges of binding; binding is clean; straight; hinges strong; a couple of sticker shadows to first leaf; otherwise interior is excellent. Jacket in new mylar protector; mild wear, mostly along edges, with tiny chips; clean and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine volume in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has been clipped and is now in a new mylar sleeve. The paper along the spine of the dust jacket shows some tanning. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Quarto. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Los Angeles: The Hall Publishing Company, 1929. Quarto. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. First edition. Dark brown boards with fading to the gilt lettering along the spine. Rubbing along the edges of the boards, with mild fraying to the ends of the spine and the bottom corner of the front board. Book is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Howard W. Wookey (illustrator). Stated First Edition. Large quarto. (10 7/8 in. by 7 1/2 in.). Brown, quarterbound cloth-covered boards with embossed graphic in blind to bottom of front board. Graphic depicts the pine cone at the top of twin oak leaves atop a staff. Historically, pine cones have symbolized occult knowledge, and serve as "a symbol of human enlightenment, resurrection, eternal life and regeneration" Recently rebacked with new spine label, lettered in gilt. (Photo, or actual riginal lettered spine (if we can still find it) available for view and comparison. Three raised bands, with gilt date (1929) to bottom compartment. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Frontis photo by William Mortensen of author Manly P. Hall. Chapters include: 1) The Nature of The Absolute; 2) God, The Divine Foundation; 3) Illumined Mind, the Universal Savior; 4) The Inferior Creation and its Regent; 5) The Annihilation of the Sense of Diversity; 6) The Disciplines of Salvation; 7) The Doctrine of Redemption through Grace; 8) The Mission of Aesthetics; 9) The Cycle of Necessity; 10) Pagan Theogony and Cosmogony; 11) Mathematics, The Master Science; 12) Demigods and Supermen; 13) Emerson's Concept of The Oversoul; 14) Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge; 15) Symbolism, the Universal Language; 16) Ancient Mystery Rituals; 17) A Philosophic Consideration of Man; 18) The Ladder of The Gods; 19) Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins; 20) The Goal of Philosophy. "Although complete in itself, this book is primarily designed to complement and amplify the larger volume on SYMBOLICAL PHILOSOPHY, published last year [1928]. During the spring and fall of 1928, I delivered two series of lectures on Symbolism and the Ancient Mysteries -- one in San Francisco and the other in Los Angeles -- to groups largely composed of subscribers to AN ENCYCLOPEDIC OUTLINE OF MASONIC, HERMETIC, QUABBALISTIC AND ROSICRUCIAN SYMBOLICAL PHILOSOPHY. The notes of these lectures were carefully taken in shorthand and form the basis of the present work. A considerable portion of my larger book is devoted to the rituals and figures of the Greek Mysteries, and this treatise is an effort to clarify the subject of classical pagan metaphysics. "Our civilization has not yet learned to value appreciation for the beautiful as the very foundation of an enduring culture. Unless we respond to the harmonious, the elegant, the symmetrical, and the rhythmic, we are recreant to past good, a menace to present integrity, and an obstacle to future effort. This truth is well made in the MERCHANT OF VENICE: "The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils." It is not enough that our codes be true; they must also be beautiful. If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding." (Author's Preface).

Philosophical Research Society Los Angeles 1947 2nd edition HB dustjacket with slight wear, now in mylar protector. Very good.Illustrated with diagrams by Howard W. Wookey.The book, explains the author, "is an effort to clarify the subject of classical pagan metaphysics", in the belief that Platonism, through Neoplatonism, "will again flourish for very extended periods, through all the infinite revolutions of time".