THE WAYS OF THE LONELY ONES: A COLLECTION OF MYSTICAL ALLEGORIES
Book Details + Condition: Third enlarged edition (stated) from 1925. Very scarce. The Hall Publishing Company (Los Angeles, CA). Blue cloth boards with gilt title and decoration on front and on spine. 133 pages. Beautiful illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp, including frontispiece with original spiderweb protector. 5.5" x 8.25". From a publisher advertisement, in a later edition: "Much of the deeper content of life is revealed through the eight stories contained in this book. Manly P. Hall presents the heartside of the philosophic life which appeals directly to the intuitive part of human nature. Profound subjects have been dealt with in a simple but dramatic way." In very good, like-new condition.
Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), was a Canadian-born occultist, mystic and author best known for his "The Secret Teaching of All Ages." Hall gathered together a world renowned collection of books and manuscripts on alchemy, mysticism, the occult, etc. which became part of the library of an organization the Philosophical Research Society, which he founded in 1934. Hall himself wrote over a hundred books and pamphlets on esoteric subjects.
