Manly P. Hall

... there's a picture of him in Masonic garb, and then there's all the symbolism on the guitars.

There's the statement, "I'm interested in the, the ascension of man," which it's, it's this kind of theosophical Manly P. Hall-

Yeah

... type thing, you know? Manly P.

And one of the first books, because I was also interested in like, you know, conspiracies, which then lead to like esoteric stuff.

And I had Manly P. Hall's Sacred Teaching of All Ages.

And, you know, that opens the doors a little bit of like, okay, something's happening.

And then a podcast came out, the Sean Ryan podcast.

Well, I think the story of empire really has to start with Atlantis.

This is something that Manley Hall tells us that Atlantis was really the first empire.

And it's where the psychology of empire first took possession of humanity.

So Atlantis, the fall of Atlantis into the psychology of not only empire, but materialism and ego possessions.

It's not something that you breeze through.

And I often find myself, I could start a book and I get into it and you know I could move away about a third of the way through and it could be a year before I'd come back to it or it could be six months before I'd come back to it and I could pick up something else but that was the kind of content I was reading at that time which was more so some aspects around ceremonial magic and I was always interested in alchemy alchemy at that time was probably reading a lot more of our own like we say the likes of Paracelsus in particular um some of the works again of like francis bacon and aspects like that going into some of his works and and people like that manly manly hall actually is another one that i would have been reading at that time as well um but yeah around that time but youtube was a little bit before i came to the healing journey

did you continue watching youtube um and consuming esoteric content through that medium

No, no, I found that it just got a bit stale.

collect, compile, and keep to themselves this secret doctrines.

Was that – that wasn't Manly P. Hall's.

Is Manly P. Hall's collection in Los Angeles? Yes.

It is.

It's a different place than that one.

And that to me is an important distinction between, Because we've gone from the learning process and consulting the books for every detail to the process of essentially teaching those things.

Not that there is any relationship between the secret teachings and essentially teaching things, but that's just a sheer coincidence that the show is named after Manly Hall's greatest work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, which is like a history of anthropology, mythology, symbolism, theology...

even cryptology, a large variety of different topics, what I might call occultism or esoterica.

But the show's evolved.