Manly P. Hall

Canadian-American author, lecturer, and mystic (1901–1990), best known for the vast compendium of esoteric lore The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) and for founding the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 1934.

Over a seventy-year career Hall delivered thousands of lectures and published more than 150 volumes surveying mysticism, symbolism, astrology, Freemasonry, and comparative religion. The Secret Teachings gathered a sweeping visual encyclopedia of Western esoteric traditions — including the symbolic and Platonic geometry that recurs across mystical thought.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Hall's connection to Fuller is thematic and cultural rather than personal: he represents the strand of esoteric, sacred-geometry tradition that colors how some readers receive Fuller's polyhedral cosmology (some accounts even frame Fuller's geometry in "sacred geometry" terms). No work currently in the corpus links to him directly; his inclusion reflects the collection's reach into the symbolic-geometry backdrop of Fuller's reception.

See Also

• Nicolas Bourbaki (Nicolas Bourbaki) — the opposite pole, pure mathematical abstraction, framing the range of "geometry" cultures around Fuller
• People in Fuller's Orbit (People in Fuller's Orbit) — the register of figures around Fuller in which he appears

Sources

• Manly P. Hall (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)