Lectures on Ancient Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure

Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. 

In Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, Manly P. Hall expands on the philosophical, metaphysical, and cosmological themes introduced in his classic work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Hall wrote this volume as a companion to his earlier work, intending it for those wishing to delve more deeply into the esoteric philosophies and ideas that undergird the Secret Teachings. Particular attention is paid to Neoplatonism, ancient Christianity, Rosicrucian and Freemasonic traditions, ancient mysteries, pagan rites and symbols, and Pythagorean mathematics.


- The Nature of the Absolute
- God, the Divine Foundation, Illumined Mind, the Universal Savior
- The Inferior Creation and Its Regent
- The Annihilation of the Sense of Diversity
- The Disciplines of Salvation
- The Doctrine of Redemption Through Grace
- The Mission of Aesthetics
- The Cycle of Necessity
- Pagan Theogony and Cosmogony
- Mathematics, the Master Science
- Demigods and Supermen
- Emerson’s Concept of the Oversoul
- Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge
- Symbolism, the Universal Language
- Ancient Mystery Rituals
- A Philosophic Consideration of Man
- The Ladder of the Gods
- Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins
- The Goal of Philosophy