Isis, the Virgin of the World

By Manly Palmer Hall

The Egyptian deity Isis under many names appears as the principle of natural fecundity among nearly all the religions of the ancient world. She was known as the Goddess with ten thousand appellations and was metamorphosed by Christianity into the Virgin Mary, for Isis, although she gave birth to all living things – chief among them the Sun – still remained a virgin, according to the legendary accounts.
During the Middle Ages the troubadours of Central Europe preserved in song the legends of the Egyptian Goddess Isis. They composed sonnets to the most beautiful woman in all the world. Though few ever discovered her identity, she was Sophia, the Virgin of Wisdom, whom all the philosophers of the world have wooed. Isis represents the mystery of motherhood, which the ancients recognized as the most apparent proof of Nature’s omniscient wisdom and God’s overshadowing power. To the modern seeker she is the epitome of the Great Unknown, and only those who unveil her will be able to solve the mysteries of life, death, generation, and regeneration.
The essay by Manly Palmer Hall that our publishing house is now proposing to modern readers, Isis, the Virgin of the World, was one of the most interesting chapters of his monumental work The Secret Teachings of All Ages, published in San Francisco in 1928.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Release date: Apr 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9791255040354

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Τεληστήριον

MANLY PALMER HALL

ISIS

THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD

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Title: Isis, the Virgin of the World

Author: Manly Palmer Hall

From The Secret Teachings of all Ages, 1928

Publishing Series: Telestèrion

Editing and preface by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN e-book version: 979-12-5504-035-4

Cover image: Statue of Isis by Auguste Puttemans, 1922

(Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa, U.S.A.)

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MANLY PALMER HALL

AND THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

By Nicola Bizzi

Manly Palmer Hall, writer, lecturer, Freemason and one of the greatest mystics and esotericists of the last two centuries, was born on March 18 1901 in Peterborough, Ontario (Canada) to Louise Palmer Hall, a chiropractor and member of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, and William S. Hall, a dentist. The younger Hall is said to have never known his father.

In 1919, Hall moved from Canada to Los Angeles, California, with his maternal grandmother to reunite with his birth mother who was living in Santa Monica. Upon meeting her, he was almost immediately drawn to the arcane world of mysticism, esoteric philosophies, and their underlying principles. Hall delved deeply into «teachings of lost and hidden traditions, the golden verses of Hindu Gods, Greek philosophers and Christian mystics, and the spiritual treasures waiting to be found within one’s own soul».

In 1919, Hall took over as preacher of the Church of the People, located at Trinity Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. Less than a year later, Hall booked his first lecture on the topic of reincarnation and on 17 May 1923 was

Reviews for Isis, the Virgin of the World

[Gregory Prisco · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

He skips around too much. He never concludes the unveiling.