Manly Palmer Hall - Complete Lecture Series Site

Hall insists that myths are not lies. He teaches that the Greek gods and the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life are "mathematical functions of consciousness." When you listen to him explain Venus rising from the foam, you understand he is describing the birth of intuition from the chaos of emotion.

To encounter this collection is not merely to listen to a lecture; it is to enroll in a correspondence course with the lost soul of Los Angeles’ Philosophical Research Society. Spanning over 8,000 individual talks recorded between the 1930s and 1980s, the Complete Lecture Series is arguably the largest single-body audio archive of Western esotericism. Unlike his polished books, these lectures are extemporaneous, intimate, and conversational. Hall speaks directly to a small, dedicated audience—often in the PRS library surrounded by rare manuscripts. Manly Palmer Hall - Complete Lecture Series

A hallmark of the series is Hall’s ability to sit in the tension between science and religion, fate and free will, East and West. He famously argues that "Mysticism is not the opposite of reason; it is the consummation of reason." Hall insists that myths are not lies