Manly Palmer Hall Quote

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into this world to accumulate wealth and abandon ourselves to mortal pleasures. We see the dangers and realize that we have been exploited for centuries. We were told the twentieth century was the most progressive that the world has ever known, but unfortunately the progression was in the direction of self-destruction.


The preface to the diamond jubilee edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages - The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)


The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into...

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into...

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into...

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into...