The Initiates of the Flame

Manly Palmer Hall (1901 1990) was an author and mystic, best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. His first publications consisted of two small pamphlets, The Breastplate of the High Priest (1920), and Wands and Serpents. Between 1921 and 1923 he wrote three books, The Initiates of the Flame published in October 1922, The Ways of the Lonely Ones published in 1922, and The Lost Keys of Freemasonry published in March 1923. Hall writes: There are those who have for ages labored with man to help him to kindle within himself this spark, which is his divine birthright. It is these who by their lives of self-sacrifice and service have awakened and tended this fire, and who through ages of study have learned the mystery it contained, that we now call the Initiates of the Flame. Table of Contents I. THE FIRE UPON THE ALTAR II. THE SACRED CITY OF SHAMBALLA III. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALCHEMIST IV. THE EGYPTIAN INITIATE V. THE ARK OF THE COVENANT VI. KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY GRAIL VII. THE MYSTERY OF THE PYRAMID