George Barron, Curator of the De Young Museum in San Francisco, Commented on Hall’s work stating, “Into this volume has been compressed the quintessence of a colossal learning. Augustus Knapp only twenty-seven of the forty-seven actually have his signature on them.
All of these watercolor illustrations are attributed to J. Each of these illustrations comes with a footnote description of what each illustration is and how it relates to the chapter and adjacent text. Some of these are the illustrations of: The Forty-Seventh Proposition of Euclid Odin, The Scandinavian Father God and the Grand Rosicrucian Alchemical Formula. For instance there are three Rosicrucian chapters To go with these chapters, there are forty-eight color plates with depictions relating the adjacent text. Some of these subjects have multiple chapters discussing different areas within the subject field as well. According to a piece written on the Colorado Grand Lodge’s website, which has a digital version of this 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.” To give you examples of how wide the subject matter is here are just a few of the fifty chapter titles: Pythagorean Mathematics, The Zodiac and its Symbols, Freemasonic Symbolism, and Mystic Christianity. So you can see that Hall’s book really does give you a broad range of topics from mathematics, to theology, as well as freemasonry.
As Voorhis mentions, Hall covers a wide variety of Philosophical, theosophical, even mathematical topics. Harold Voorhis nicknamed The Secret Teachings of All Ages “The Great Book” in his article, ‘“The Great Book” of Manly Palmer Hall.’ This nick name was aptly given due to its “voluminous content” and the “immense field covered” in this book. Between the years of 19, Hall wrote two small pamphlets and three books, to include amongst those, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, which was published in March of 1923.
It was here that at age 18 Hall became infatuated with the occult and esoteric philosophy. In 1919 Hall moved to Los Angeles, California with his grandmother to reunite with his birth mother in Santa Monica. Hall was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on March 18, 1901. The book was originally published in 1928 and is considered by many to be Hall’s magnum opus. Total 2200 copies printed in 1928 in 5 editions this is the 5th edition ( 800 copies)
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