The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras

By Manly Palmer Hall

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, c. 570 - c. 495 BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and initiate and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. Around 530 BC, he travelled to Croton in southern Italy, where he founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle. This lifestyle entailed a number of dietary prohibitions, traditionally said to have included vegetarianism. He may have also devised the doctrines of Metempsychosis (transmigration of souls) and Musica Universalis, which holds that the planets move according to mathematical equations and thus resonate to produce an inaudible symphony of music. His political and religious teachings were well known in Greece and Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the West in general.
The essay by Manly Palmer Hall that our publishing house is now proposing to modern readers, The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras, 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: Jun 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9791255042167

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Τεληστήριον

MANLY PALMER HALL

THE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF PYTHAGORAS

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Title: The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras

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: 979-12-5504-216-7

Cover image: Pythagoras in a detail of the Raffaello Sanzio’s fresco The School of Athens, 1511

(Vatican, Palazzi Apostolici, Stanza della Segnatura)

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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