Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts

Manly P. Hall

Nov 2016 · Pickle Partners Publishing

About this ebook

Originally published in 1926, this short book focused on the symbolism surrounding the ancient patriarch Melchizedek serves as a concise introduction to important imperceptible truths.

“The elaborate rituals of the ancient Mysteries and the simpler ceremonials of modern religious institutions had a common purpose. Both were designed to preserve, by means of symbolic dramas and processionals, certain secret and holy processes, by the understanding of which man may more intelligently work out his salvation. The pages which follow will be devoted to an interpretation of some of these allegories according to the doctrine of the ancient seers and sages.”

Ratings and reviews

I have been trying to read a book by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov called Light Is A Living Spirit, but was sort of having a little trouble getting through it. But I read both books in tandem....LOVED IT!

Manly P. Hall has done it again. A great book to introduce you to the Esoteric knowledge that permeates our culture hidden in plain sight. Will not only help you spot it but also understand what you are looking at, reading, or whatever may be the case.

Love and Light...this book, when man is ready to submit and subdue, contains much that, when rendered unto further in-vestigation, will lift his thoughts above the veil of uncertainty and darkness.

About the author

Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. He is also the founder of the Philosophical Research Society, Inc., a non-profit organization, dedicated to the dissemination of useful knowledge in the fields of philosophy, comparative religion, and psychology.

Born in 1901 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Hall moved to Los Angeles, California in 1919 and was almost immediately drawn to the arcane world of mysticism, esoteric philosophies, and their underlying principles.

In his long career, spanning more than seventy years of dynamic public activity, Mr. Hall delivered over 8000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles.

In addition to his Secret Teachings of All Ages, his other major works include The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (1923) and Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism-Mysteries of the Mandala (1988).

Hall died in 1990 aged 89.