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Best wishes to

Manly P. Hall

Jan 1935

THE PHOENIX

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AN ILLUSTRATED REVIEW OF

Occultism and Philosophy

By MANLY HALL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS	PAGE
INTRODUCTION	5
THE LADDER OF SOULS	11
BODHIDHARMA, PATRIARCH OF ZEN a school of Buddhism emphasizing meditation and intuition	17
WHEN THE DEAD COME BACK	23
ALBERT PIKE, THE PLATO OF FREEMASONRY a fraternal organization using the tools of stonemasonry as moral symbols	29
THE SORCERY OF ASIA	37
CONCENTRATION AND RETROSPECTION	47
THE COMTE DE ST.-GERMAIN an 18th-century adventurer and mystic rumored to be immortal	53
THE CYCLE OF TRANSMIGRATION the passing of a soul into another body after death	59
THE TENTH AVATAR a divine incarnation, specifically the predicted future savior in Hindu prophecy	69
THE WHEEL OF PYTHAGORAS	73
THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION	79
H. P. B. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian co-founder of the Theosophical Society, THE RUSSIAN SPHINX	85
THE UNIVERSE IN STONE	97
KISMET destiny or fate	103
HOLY MEN	105
APOLLONIUS Apollonius of Tyana, a Greek miracle-worker and philosopher, THE ANTICHRIST	113
THE GREAT PYRAMID	117

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