文档介绍：THE
SECRET
TEACHINGS
OF ALL
AGES
by Manly P. Hall
[1928, copyright not
renewed]
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For once, a book which really lives up to its title. Hall self-published this massive tome
in 1928, consisting of about 200 legal-sized pages in 8 point type; it is literally his
magnum opus. Each of the nearly 50 chapters is so dense with information that it is the
equivalent of an entire short book. If you read this book in its entirety you will be in a
good position to dive into subjects such as the Qabbala, Alchemy, Tarot, Ceremonial
Magic, Neo-Platonic Philosophy, Mystery Religions, and the theory of Rosicrucianism
and Freemasonry. Although there are some questionable and controversial parts of the
book, such as the outdated material on Islam, the portion on the Bacon-Shakespeare
hypothesis, and Hall's conspiracy theory of history as driven by an elite cabal of roving
immortals, they are far out-weighed by prehensive information here on other
subjects.
For many years this book was only available in a large format edition which was hard
to obtain and very expensive. However, an affordable paperback version has finally
been released (see sidebar).
PRODUCTION NOTES: I worked on this huge project episodically from 2001 to June 2004. This because of the poor
OCR quality, which was due to the miniscule type and large blocks of italics; this necessitated retyping many parts of the
text manually. To give an idea of how massive this project was, the proof file for this is 2 megabytes, about 8 times the
size of a normal 200 page book. The raw graphics files are 63 megabytes, which I've processed down to about 11
megabytes. The thumbnails alone are 1 megabyte, which is about my graphics budget for a regular book.
While the book itself is not covered by copyright in the US due to lack of formal renewal, many of the large color
illustrations that front each chapter in the paper edition did have registrations and