Manly P. Hall
Where each worldview places it
A 33rd-degree Freemason and founder of the Philosophical Research Society. Cooper calls him "a priest of the order", a high adept of the secret societies of Mystery Babylon, and "the world's leading authority on esoteric language"[1]. Cooper reads his America's Assignment with Destiny on air and quotes him throughout[2]. Cooper urges: "Anything that he's ever written, get it and read it"[3].
- Aliases
- Manley P. HallManley PalmerManly Palmer Hall
- Controls / directs
- founded and led the Philosophical Research Society[4]
- Answers to / controlled by
- member of Freemasonry and Mystery Babylon[5]
- Lineage
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- Dates
- 1951 (America's Assignment with Destiny, April 1951)
- died c. 1990, after which the PRS library "has been disappearing"[6]
- Places
- Los Angeles, California
- Key events
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- Members / notable people
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- Author's claims · 8
- 01"Never will peace reign upon the earth until we are ruled by the fit"[7].
- 02Initiates "are the invisible powers behind the thrones of earth, and men are but marionettes"[8].
- 03"The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands" (via Epperson)[9].
- 04Hall confirmed that Masonry is a religion[10].
- 05He predicted that the esoteric tradition "will next function through that complex of vast interrelated organisms of production and distribution". Cooper reads this as the coming "marriage between the corporate world and the state", socialism[6].
- 06Hall links the ancient American mysteries and their master builder "directly to Freemasonry"[11].
- 07In The Secret Destiny of America he calls the eye the Great Architect's, which Cooper calls "erroneous"[12].
- 08Cooper disputes Hall's view that Peru was a successful utopia[13].