Manly P. Hall Magic White Gray And Black

Manly P. Hall
Magic: White, Gray And Black

Canadian born, Manly Palmer Hall is the author of over 150 published works, the best known of which are Initiates of the Flame, The Story of Healing, The Divine Art Aliens Magick and Sorcery, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
He was also the author of a masonic curiosity, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry in 1923, more than thirty years before he joined a lodge. The preface of later editions states "At the time I wrote this slender volume, I had just passed my twenty-first birthday, and my only contact with Freemasonry was through a few books commonly available to the public." Later, in 1944, he wrote The Secret Destiny of America which popularized the myth of a masonic purpose for the founding of the USA. In 1950 he weighed in again on the meaning of Freemasonry with his booklet: Masonic Orders of Fraternity.
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Initiated: June 28, 1954
Passed: September 20, 1954
Raised November 22, 1954
Jewel Lodge No. 374
Source: Grand Lodge of California records ; William R. Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, vol. ii. Trenton, MO. : Missouri Lodge of Research / Educational Bureau, Royal Arch Mason Magazine, 1958. p. 165.

Hall was a Knight Patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco, with which he was associated for a number of years prior to his Masonic affiliations. On 28 June 1954, Hall was initiated as a Freemason into Jewel Lodge No. 374, San Francisco (now the United Lodge); passed 20 September 1954; and raised 22 November 1954. He took the Scottish Rite Degrees a year later. He later received his 32° in the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ). On 8 December 1973 (45 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33° Mason (the second highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite) at a ceremony held at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS).

Hall died on August 29, 1990, at the age of 89, during a vacation trip with his wife Marie Bauer. The circumstances surrounding his death were suspicious, with his wife suspecting a plot devised by Hall's assistant at the Philosophical Research Society, Daniel Fritz, who made Hall rewrite his will only six days prior to his death. The case was brought to court by Bauer, and, although Fritz was ultimately not found guilty of Hall's death, it was proven that he had stolen money from him on a number of occasions, and as a result, he was removed from his position at the PRS after Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Schneider invalidated Hall’s last will in August, 1993. The mystery of Hall's death was never fully solved, with Marie Bauer never retracting her initial statement that it was a case of foul play involving Fritz, his son David, and another man named Mogins Brandt.

A philosophical and metaphysically rich examination of the esoteric principles that underlie both White and Black Magic. As with much of Hall’s work, this book is not merely about external rituals or ceremonial practices, but rather a profound exploration into the internal struggles and alchemical processes of the soul.

Hall’s depiction of Black Magic and Black Magician’s resonates very strongly with that from Toltec philosophy.

In 1988, Hall wrote: "The greatest knowledge of all time should be available to the twentieth century not only in the one shilling editions of the Bohn Library in small type and shabby binding, but in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin. John Henry Nash agreed with me."