BROTHER BUR Ω 🪬🍀

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MANLY P HALL One of the greatest writers of all time. One of the greatest orators of all time. One of the greatest scholars of all time. And one of the greatest philosophers of all time. To be just ONE of those four things, would be sufficiently impressive by itself. But to be all of four of them at once, you’re looking at a freak 1 in 1,000,000,000 individual. The definition of generational talent. He wrote over 200 books and gave over 8000 lectures in his lifetime. His magnum opus, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, a synthesis of thousands of obscure, ancient, and esoteric sources... is one of the most exhaustive occult compendiums ever produced. The most impressive thing about it? MPH published it at just 27 years old. I find this simultaneously tremendously inspiring and infuriating. I struggled to read it because I was burdened by this fact, in much the same way as when you're watching a really complicated movie and are thinking "How did they even film this?" and it interferes with your ability to just enjoy it. Even worse still, he published The Secret Teachings of All Ages in 1928. No internet. Libraries. Archives. Letters. Note-taking. Both the contents of the book, and the conditions that it was written in, are astounding to contemplate. Just brutal, his career defined by the sheer violence of sustained intellectual labour totalling in the tens of thousands of hours of single-minded dedication toward his craft. God Bless Manly Palmer Hall. Perhaps you can allow this post to serve as an inspiration, encouragement, and reminder, to absorb yourself in his works. Start with The Secret Teachings of All Ages. And do not try to speed-read through it. Go slowly, with a highlighter. When you come across a word or concept that you are unfamiliar with, pause, acquaint yourself with it, and then resume going through the tome. Chew slowly. Chew mindfully. This is the proper way.

WOKE UP THANKED THE LORD FOR WAKING ME UP TO SEE THIS DAY I HAD READ THAT THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF CONFESSION ONE IS GIVING THANKS TO THE BLESSINGS WE RECEIVE THROUGH DIVINE FAVOR AND ANOTHER IS BRINGING LIGHT TO WHAT WE HAVE DONE WRONG BOTH PRODUCE HUMILITY