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After his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages was published,
“Hall’s life would never be the same,” noted a biographer. “Overnight,
he went from being just another ernest young preacher in the City of
Angels to becoming an icon of the increasingly influential metaphysical
movement sweeping the country in the 1920s. His book challenged
assumptions about society’s spiritual roots and made people look at them
in new ways.
Hall dedicated The Secret Teachings of All Ages to “the
proposition that concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories and
rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner
mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto among a small band of initiated minds.
The result was a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols,
concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of
the sea, and angelic beings with lions’ heads presiding over somber
initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that
had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man
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