“The ability to feel 'with' rather than 'for' is the essential difference between consciousness and emotion. When we feel for things we are emotionally moved. Pity, sympathy, and kindred feelings stir us, and yet they seldom give any definite impulse… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned upon the altars of countless nations. The fire of Zeus burned upon the Palatine Hill, the fire of Vesta upon the altar of the home, and the fire of aspiration upon the altar of the soul. PART… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share
“Philosophically defined, growth is the struggle of life to control its environment or, rather, to include more and more of its environment within the area of its own self-knowing. Perfect freedom of expression is the goal of all life. All things, both animate and inanimate, are striving for that freedom which lies in perfect expression. It naturally follows that there… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share
“Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the opportunity for… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.” — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened, by the actual labor which… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine illumination of his lodge that as Mason his religion must be universal: Christ,… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“The ability to feel 'with' rather than 'for' is the essential difference between consciousness and emotion. When we feel for things we are emotionally… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
