America's Assignment With Destiny: The Adepts in the Western Esoteric Tradition, Part 5

by Manly P. Hall

The story of unfolding of the esoteric tradition in the Western Hemisphere is told, beginning with the rites and mysteries of the Mayas and Aztecs. Parallels are drawn between the miracles of the North American Indian medicine priests and those of the wonder workers of India. Also an account of the Incas of Peru and their possible contact with Asia. Space is devoted to the riddle of Columbus, the role of Lord Bacon in organizing the English settlements in America, and the contributions of the German mystics through the Pietists, Mennonites, Dunkers, and Quakers. The American Revolutionary period and important personalities of that time are examined, as are the Latin American patriots such as Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo, and Benito Juarez.

Genres: History

119 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1973

About the author

Canadian born, Manly Palmer Hall is the author of over 150 published works, the best known of which are Initiates of the Flame, The Story of Healing, The Divine Art,Aliens Magick and Sorcery The Secret Teachings of All Ages, and An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
He was also the author of a masonic curiosity, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry in 1923, more than thirty years before he joined a lodge. The preface of later editions states "At the time I wrote this slender volume, I had just passed my twenty-first birthday, and my only contact with Freemasonry was through a few books commonly available to the public." Later, in 1944, he wrote The Secret Destiny of America which popularized the myth of a masonic purpose for the founding of the USA. In 1950 he weighed in again on the meaning of Freemasonry with his booklet: Masonic Orders of Fraternity.
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Initiated: June 28, 1954
Passed: September 20, 1954
Raised November 22, 1954
Jewel Lodge No. 374
Source: Grand Lodge of California records ; William R. Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, vol. ii. Trenton, MO. : Missouri Lodge of Research / Educational Bureau, Royal Arch Mason Magazine, 1958. p. 165.

Reviews

[HillbillyMystic · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Serpent World is divided amongst Builders, Destroyers and Slaves. Most of humanity is trapped in the slave class, mindlessly going through life doing what the social engineers at places like the Tavistock Institute tell them to do. Manly Palmer Hall was most definitely a Builder who did the Great Work stirring society’s consciousness writing books and speeches that continue to stir the slumbering masses long after he received his Final Initiation in the year of our Lord 1990. This masterpiece is about the Initiated Builders who helped found this once free Republic before the Dark Lodge began infiltrating Lodges, Churches and Governments on May 1 in the Year of our Lord 1776.
The Destroyers, like the demons they emulate, can only copy and invert those of us focused on freeing humanity from their chains. They have infiltrated our Republic and inverted Sir Francis Bacon’s ideal for the Utopian, Free ‘New Atlantis’ and diverted it into the Dystopian prequel to ‘A Brave New World’ Order. Studies and history have proven that 80% of the somnolent slave class will not only go along with tyranny, but will assist in reinforcing dictators. We are all programmed from a very early age to accept the Master/Slave Dynamic that we all live in from cradle to coffin. We are taught in Kindergarten that we must ask permission from our Master when to pee, speak, eat, play, draw, sleep, come and go. On a subconscious level, most slaves cannot wait for an opportunity to be the Master. The author of this essay (disguised as a book “review”) had firsthand experience with this phenomenon during the Wuhan Lab Leak Pandemic.
In Boulder, Colorado circa 2020, the dumbed down by design Non-Player Characters could not wait to enforce mask mandates on this Freeman who will Never allow himself to be muzzled. Zuckerberg attempted to muzzle me about “misinformation” regarding the Nuremberg Code Violating mandates of never-ending boosters of mRNA spike protein gene editing therapies sourly mislabeled as vaccines. It turns out the unpublished, censored, peer-reviewed research I was sharing on Zuck’s platform was spot-on and Pfizer was telling two lies as the Pfizer Bioweapon was neither safe nor efficacious. I quit social thereafter due to my staunch, Jeffersonian belief in the First Amendment. TJ would have killed or died for his worst enemy’s Right to question the “science.” Once, after watching an episode of the View: “How to Approach Your Unvaccinated Family this Holiday Season,” my mother-in-law had the unmitigated gall to say to my wife and I, “Now that we know it’s safe and effective…” I never heard the end of her sentence because I stumbled out the front door laughing harder than I have ever laughed in my entire life. In all fairness, she did warn me before we got married that her family was “limited.”
The Ancient, Luciferian, Dark Lodge Inverters fully understand and practice Natural Law that has been secretly taught in mystery schools for millennia. I prefer not to use invidious distinctions like other Lodge Bros who label the uninitiated as profane or even worse pejoratives used in the Dark Side like the “Unbegun” or “Walking Dead.” Regardless, most civilians are familiar with some of these, like the Law of Karma or Attraction. Ralph Waldo Emerson even put one of God’s Laws out into the public domain when he published the Law of Compensation, but who puts down their Digital Minder long enough to read Emerson anymore?
Based on their knowledge and practice God’s Laws, the parasitical class of self-proclaimed elites have to openly proclaim their authoritarian plans via movies, books, “influencers”, “news”, and propagandist, public relation advertising disguised as “science”. They firmly believe you are tacitly agreeing to their terms by going along with and enforcing their safe and effective narratives. When we do not refresh the tree of Liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants, we further enslave the next generation as well as our own. George Washington crossed the frozen Delaware River on Christmas Day to slit the throats of his enemies over a 3% tea tax while we continue to pay the immoral and illegal earnings tax ever since the Federal Reserve Act was snuck into law over Christmas break by the Inverters in 1913.
There have been a few blaring examples of this tacit agreement in the technocratic era. Many films have been made warning us of the looming Ai Armageddon and Robot Apocalypse. Meanwhile the “Libertarian”, Puppet Savior Donald Trump is burning far more calories on creating Ai Singularity than he is on existential threats like World War 3, Stratospheric Aerosol Injections, Pfizercide, Gain of Function Bioweapon Research, CCP Fungus Smuggling at Universities capable of destroying all of our crops, and the 40 million military aged men Biden allowed to enter illegally. We were all duly warned when the updated version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave was released in 1999 as The Matrix. Then we all proceeded to dive as deeply as possible into The Cave with crippling digital dopamine addictions while sharing every thought, feeling, action, location, blood pressure and pulse with the Ai Beast System. We were all fooled yet again by The Serpent with an Apple. Genesis 3:13 might as well have been written as a warning for all mankind. “The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”
Aldous Huxley was right. “The 21st century will be the era of World Controllers…The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work; most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”

[Muhammad · Rating 3 out of 5]

The majority of this volume is about Aboriginal American esoteric religions and there connection or continuation in the colonization of this part of the Earth by Europeans who also have secret societies and esoteric movements. They were seperate, they were amalgamated and they have a shared destiny. To sum up the tome:

"There are two motions in human society. One is toward understanding, and this is the unifying force. The other motion is toward misunderstanding, and this is the dividing force. Each human being advances the universal destiny to the degree that he overcomes within himself the impulses
to divide and separate. It is not always possible to defend the conduct of groups or individuals or to cooperate with that which is obviously perverse. Too often, however, division is due simply to prejudice or to those egocentric impulses which tend to isolation through a false conviction of personal superiority. All institutions, sacred and secular, are composed of human beings. As these grow and unfold their natural consciousness, they verge toward each other by simple convictions of fraternity. Every possible effort should be made to encourage good feeling between sincere persons of different beliefs. This is only possible when all are generous and find justification in the realization of the pressing need of united effort.

The pages of history reveal the irresistible unifying force operating in human affairs. The story of man is the record of the struggle upward and forward from isolation to unification. No one can go against this motion without betraying himself, his world, and his God. All good things have come to those who have learned to work together, for this simple procedure is a symbol of civilization. Cooperation is the Great Work, the social alchemy which produces the Universal Medicine. It is recommended that the sincere truth seeker examine the various organizations which have risen in human society, and determine by their works rather than by their pretensions which ones are dedicated to the advancement of World Fraternity. Such associations, whether they be actual instruments of the Secret Schools or simply groups of sincere persons, are laboring in the light
and for the light. Once convinced of the reality of the Great Plan, the individual also receives a vision of realities which enable him to conduct his own affairs in harmony with the larger destiny."

[Kevan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This sometimes is packaged with Secret Destiny of America which is a good idea considering they are so close in theme and presentation. I prefer the other book greatly but this is good on its own merits. I generally recommend Secret Destiny as a must read and there are a number of other Manly Hall books/pamphlets I prefer but given that he is an author I love so much, I am glad that I purchased this book and it has a number of interesting insights concerning America.