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The Phoenix: An Illustrated Review of Occultism and Philosophy

Title

The Phoenix: An Illustrated Review of Occultism and Philosophy

Author

Manly P. Hall

Description

Seven thousand years of fascinating lore from around the world is reviewed in this illustrated, folio-sized volume. The table of contents includes:

  • The Ladder of Souls - Studies the mystery of the descent of the spiritual man into the body, further enhanced with the diagrams of Robert Fludd, an English Alchemist and Hermetic philosopher
  • Bodhidharma, Patriarch of Zen
  • When the Dead Come Back - Discusses out of body experiences
  • Albert Pike, The Plato of Freemasonry
  • The Sorcery of Asia - The strange stories of Sky-walking Adepts, snake charmers, devil dancers, and more
  • Concentration & Retrospection
  • Safe and sane disciplines
  • The Comte de St. Germain - Greatest of the European Adepts
  • The Cycle of Transmigration - According to the teachings of those learned lamas who are the custodians of the secret traditions in Buddhism
  • The Tenth Avatar - Mahatma Gandhi
  • The Wheel of Pythagoras - Invaluable to numerology students
  • The Practice of Meditation
  • H.P.B., The Russian Sphinx - Tells of Madame Blavatsky and includes two, full-page portraits of Mahatmas M. and K.H.. painted under her supervision
  • The Universe in Stone - The Buddhist remains of Boro Budur
  • Kismet - A delightful story of a Caliph and an astrologer
  • Holy Men - Those sanctified to high purpose
  • Apollonius "The Antichrist"
  • Cagliostro & the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry
  • The Great Pyramid

Subject Matter

Occult

Publication Year

1960

Publisher

Philosophical Research Society

Language

English

Files

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Collection

Citation

“The Phoenix: An Illustrated Review of Occultism and Philosophy,” The Bruce Lee Library Research Project, accessed May 15, 2025, https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/items/show/1845.