CHAPTER 1
1. Manly Palmer Hall, unedited memoirs about Sydney J. Brownson, August 22, 1990.
2. Personal interview, Jo Ann O’Connor.
3. Manly Palmer Hall, HORIZON (The Philosophical Research Society Inc., Autumn 1950), p. 63.
4. Jenkins, Philip, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 90.
5. Hall, Brownson memoirs.
6. Hall, letter to Clarke Johnson, May 3, 1990.
7. Hall, “Memoirs,” undated.
8. Hall, Brownson memoirs.
9. Qur’an, Surah 50:16.
10. Bible, Luke 17:21.
11. Hall, PRS JOURNAL (The Philosophical Research Society Inc., Autumn 1970).
12. Hall, Brownson memoirs.
13. Hall, Brownson memoirs.
14. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 68.
15. Hall, “A Christmas Message,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1976, p. 9.
16. Hall, acceptance speech at JFK University, June 20, 1981.
17. Hall, JFK University.
18. Hall, JFK University.
19. Ridenour, Al, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2002.
20. Ridenour, Los Angeles Times, 2002.
21. Heindel, Max; The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (The Rosicrucian Fellowship), pp. 312–313.
22. Hall, letter to James Noel, Nov. 30, 1981.
23. Hall, “Echoes from Mt. Ecclesia,” Rays from the Rosy Cross, 1921, pp. 279–280.
24. Personal interview, Grace Rice, August, 21, 2002.
25. Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1923.
26. PRS JOURNAL (Winter 1976), p. 73.
27. LeBerthon, Ted, newspaper article, March 23, 1942.
28. Bailes, Frederick, Hidden Powers for Human Problems (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1957), book jacket.
29. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Autumn 1970, p. 9.
30. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 63.
31. Bean, Walter E., California: An Interpretive History (McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968), pp. 278–400.
32. Hall, lecture, “The Horoscope of Los Angeles,” 1932.
33. Hall, JFK University.
34. Hall, JFK University.
35. Hall, JFK University.
36. Hall, memoirs, undated.
37. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 67.
38. Hall, All-Seeing Eye, 1923.
39. Thomas, “Reminiscences of Manly P. Hall and the Philosophical Research Society: Part II,” New Perspectives, July 1994.
40. Thomas, PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1986, p. 73.
41. Hall, The Secret of the Untroubled Mind (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., second printing, 1965), pp. 4–5.
42. Personal interviews with Bill Emerick, Donna Lloyd, Donald Lloyd and Byron Bird.
43. MacShane, Frank, The Life of Raymond Chandler (E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York, 1976), pp. 25–26.
44. Personal interviews, Lloyds.
45. Hall, “Great Opportunity,” Thirty-eight Thousand Miles of Impressions (Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1925).
46. Hall, acceptance speech, JFK University.
47. Hall, JFK University.
48. Wela-ka-hao, Volume 5, December, 1923, Honolulu, Hawaii.
49. Hall, Thirty-eight Thousand Miles of Impressions (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1925), p. 117.
50. Hall, HORIZON, April 1942, p. 13.
51. Hall, memoirs, undated.
52. Hall, Man: Grand Symbol of the Mysteries (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1932), p. 52.
53. Hall, HORIZON, September 1943, p. 30.
CHAPTER 2
1. Hall, All-Seeing Eye (“the most elaborate and most beautiful volume ever printed on the West Coast”).
2. Hall, memoirs, p. 6.
3. Hall, “Reflections of M.P.H.,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 58.
4. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, H.S. Crocker Company, 1928 p. 20.
5. Voorhis, Harold V.B., “The Great Book of Manly P. Hall,” PRS JOURNAL, Autumn 1970, p. 22.
6. Hall, rough draft, Aug. 22, 1990.
7. Personal interview with Obadiah Harris.
8. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (The Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles), 1929, p. 6.
9. Hall, “Emergency Training for Philosophy,” HORIZON, pg. 1.
10. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, p. 317.
11. Ibid., p. 315.
12. Ibid., p. 381.
13. Hall, The Child’s Place in The Plan (The Philosophers Press, Los Angeles, 1940), pp. 16–18.
14. Heindel, Augusta, “Echoes from Mt. Ecclesia: Chats with the Editor,” Rays from the Rose Cross: The Rosicrucian Magazine, June 1930, p. 327.
15. Larry Lytle, The Command to Look: The Story of William Mortensen, Part I (2002); Lytle, contributor, William Mortensen: A Revival, (Center for Creative Photography, 1998), and personal interviews with Lytle.
16. Beman, Ansen and Peggy, Memories of Our Friends in Laguna Beach 1951–1953, 2002.
17. “Head of Supreme Government of the World Inc. Wants his $1,400 Back,” New York World-Telegram, April 24, 1931.
18. Evangeline Adams, letter to Hall, October 1932.
19. The Saturday Review, Jan. 14, 1933.
20. Hall, draft, memoirs, undated, p. 10.
21. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1976, pp. 8–28.
22. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1956, pp. 15–37; Hall, The Little World of PRS: A Field Tour of The Philosophical Research Society (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., Los Angeles, 1982), pp. 22–23.
23. Hall, “Burbank’s Training the Human Plant,” HORIZON, Summer 1956, p. 13.
24. Hall, “Recollections of M.P.H.,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 66.
25. Hall, draft, “Preface,” 1939.
26. Hall, “Here and There in Memoryland, Part II,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1989, pp. 40–43.
27. Hall, “Here and There in Memoryland, Part V,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1990, pp. 23–24; and interview with Ruth Drayer, biographer of the Roerichs.
28. Roerich, Helena, Letters of Helena Roerich 1935–1939 (Agni Yoga Society, New York, 1967), p. 135.
29. Hall, “Dedication Ceremony for the P.R.S. Auditorium,” May 16, 1959, PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 30.
30. Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office, Book 223, p. 10.
31. Los Angeles Times, “He answers Phone Call with a Gun,” October 2, 1921; “Jury Holds Driver of Death Car,” March 28, 1926, “Paroles Given to Thirty-one,” Dec. 30, 1931.
32. Hall, The Little World of PRS, pp. 3–4.
33. Hall, “Passing the Lamp: History and General Aims of the Society,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1990, p. 2.
34. Rasmussen, Cecilia, “Maya Landmark on Route 66 Became Haunt of Actors, Ghosts,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2001.
35. Personal interview with Obadiah Harris, 2004.
36. Hall, “Library Notes by Pearl M. Thomas,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1990, p. 45.
37. Personal interview with manager of Acres of Books.
38. The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, The Rosicrucian Order (San Jose, California), Master Monograph, Illuminati Section, Degree 12, Monographs 230–235.
39. Hall, lecture, “When Were You Born?”, 1938.
40. “Rosicrucian Head Dies of Heart Attack in North,” United Press, Daily News, August 2, 1939.
41. Hall, letter, April 6, 1978.
42. Budge, Sir E.A. Wallis, Amulets and Talismans (University Books, New Hyde Park, New York, 1968), p. 209, p. 310.
43. Interview with Clarke Johnston.
44. Hall, “Fire the Universal Deity,” Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts, (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1996), p. 20.
45. Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1998), p. 24.
46. Hall, Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1937), p. 33.
47. Rogers, Warren S., My Own Los Angeles, 1894–1982 (Los Angeles, 1982).
48. Personal interview with Clarke Johnston.
49. Hall, letter, November 28, 1983.
50. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Vital Statistics Index; Nicholls Hospital Trust Sept. 19, 1038; Dr. William Dixon Scott, letter to Louise Hall, September 19, 1938.
51. Personal interview with Peterborough historian John Walter Martyn.
52. Hall, letter, November 30, 1981.
53. Interview with Elwood Jones, Trent University historian.
54. U.S. Bureau of Pensions, No. 614,100, November 13, 1915.
55. Louise Hall, letter to Manly P. Hall.
56. Hall, Growing Up with Grandmother (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1985), p. 77.
57. Hall, lecture at JFK University, 1981.
58. Hall, “Young Readers,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1989, pp. 30–31.
59. Hall, Growing up With Grandmother, pp. 102–103.
60. Hall, PRS Contributors’ Bulletin, 1972.
61. State of New York Military Training Commission card, 1918.
62. Hall, memoirs, rough draft.
63. Hall, lecture at JFK University, 1981.
64. Hall, “Martinka’s Palace of Magic,” PRS JOURNAL, Fall 1989, pp. 54–57.
65. Stashower, Daniel, The Medium & the Magician (American History, August 1999).
66. Hall, lecture, “1942: The Critical Year in Modern Civilization.”
67. Broughton, L.D., Broughton’s Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal, Philadelphia, March 1, 1981.
68. Hall, “Happenings at Headquarters,” PRS JOURNAL, Fall 1972, pp. 69–70.
69. Robert Millikan, letter to Hall, March 3, 1939.
70. Hall, lecture, “The Mystery of Precious Gems,” May 5, 1940.
71. Hall, A Monthly Letter Devoted to Spiritual and Philosophical Problems, March 1, 1936.
72. Hall, lecture, “Musical Therapeutics,” January 8, 1939.
73. Hall, “Thought Transference,” HORIZON, August 1943, pp. 31–32.
74. Hall, proposed sequel to Tod Browning’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1931.
75. Scheur, Philip K., “Hollywood Goes Occult for New Film,” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1938.
76. Hall, proposed sequel to Tod Browning’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1931.
77. Hall, lecture, “My Six Months in a Motion Picture Studio,” June 26, 1938.
78. Friedrich, Otto, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Harper & Row, New York, 1997), p. 34.
79. Hall, “Here and There in Memoryland: Part V,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1990, p. 23.
80. Hall, lecture, “My Six Months in a Motion Picture Studio.”
81. Newspaper article, unknown source, February 2, 1938.
82. Parsons, Louella O., column, motion picture editor, International News Service, January 22, 1938.
83. Hall, lecture, “My Six Months in a Motion Picture Studio.”
84. Mittauer, Frank, newspaper column, unknown publication, “A Séance for the Press,” 1938.
85. Hopper, Hedda, column, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1938.
86. Hall, “My Six Months in a Motion Picture Studio.”
87. Rhodes, Gary Don, Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers (McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., 1997).
88. Churchill, Douglas W., New York Times, January 28, 1940.
89. Personal interview with Dewey Martin.
90. Personal interview with Barbara Fuller.
91. Friedman, Harry, “Mystics Now All the Rage at Hollywood Parties,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1938.
92. Jenkins, Philip, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 11.
93. “Disciple of I Am Sues Leader for $62,000,” Los Angeles Times, January 6, 1951.
94. “Senator’s Widow Tells Court of I Am Secrets,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1940.
95. “Mrs. Edna Ballard and Son Convicted by Jury of Fraud,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 1942.
96. Melton, J. Gordon, The Encyclopedia of American Religions (McGrath Publishing Company, Wilmington, N.C., 1978) pp. 155–159.
97. Jenkins, Philip, Mystics and Messiahs (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 153–154.
98. “Peace Secret Given for $20 by Organization Active Here,” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1941. Mankind United.
99. Jenkins, Philip, Mystics and Messiahs, p. 127.
100. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1987, p. 64.
101. Hall, “Here and There in Memoryland,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1990, p. 30.
102. Ibid., p. 20.
103. Hall, lecture, “When Were You Born?”, 1930.
104. Hall, Questions and Answers: Fundamentals of the Esoteric Sciences (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., Los Angeles, 1965), p. 237.
105. Los Angeles County Coroner’s Register File 91751.
106. Los Angeles Examiner, Sunday, February 23, 1941.
107. Hall, “A Monthly Letter,” December 1, 1935.
108. Hall, “Case History: The Psychic,” HORIZON, January 1942, pp. 30–32.
CHAPTER 3
1. Personal interview with Elizabeth Simmonds.
2. Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1990, p. 31.
3. Bean, California: An Interpretive History, p. 426.
4. Ibid., p. 427.
5. Hall, HORIZON, February 1942, p. 1.
6. Hall, “Emergency Training for Philosophy,” HORIZON, August 1941, p. 3.
7. Hall, “Philosophy Faces War,” HORIZON, January 1942, p. 3.
8. Hall, The Secret Destiny of America (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1944), pp. 17–45.
9. Ibid., pp. 165–172.
10. Hall, lecture, “The Great Mystics of History: Swedenborg, The Mathematical Mystic,” 1940.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Personal interviews with Hall family friends and historian Anne Holliday.
14. Hall, Self-Unfoldment By Disciplines of Realization (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1942), p. 22.
15. Letter, April 15, 1944.
16. Hall, lecture, “The Riddle of the Rosicrucians,” 1941.
17. Hall, “Atlantis and the Origins of Civilization,” HORIZON, August 1941, pp. 17–20.
18. Hall, “Five and Ten Senses,” HORIZON, April 1942, p. 26.
19. Ibid., p. 27.
20. Personal interview with Obadiah Harris.
21. Hall, Self-Unfoldment By Disciplines of Realization, p. 54.
22. Ibid., p. 20
23. Ibid., p. 28.
24. Hall, Healing: The Divine Art (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1944), p. 17.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., pp. 26–27.
27. Personal interview with Patricia Levitt.
28. Personal interviews with Harold and Larry Stein.
29. Drake, Henry, letter to Corning Glass Works, September 6, 1944.
30. Drake, letter to Wilson Products Co., September 6, 1944.
31. Hall, Journey in Truth (The Philosophical Research Society, 1945), p. 12.
32. Truman, Harry, letter, May 9, 1952.
33. Personal interview with Peter Bauer.
34. Bauer, Marie, letter to Walter Owens, 1946.
35. Southern California Daily Trojan, March 1, 1948.
36. Hall, Tales of the Wanderer, July 9, 1948.
37. Hall, “A Chinese Conjurer,” HORIZON, 1948. pp. 71–72.
38. Personal interview with Michael Morris, author, Madam Valentino, 1991.
CHAPTER 4
1. Personal interviews with Jo Ann O’Connor and Peter Bauer.
2. Hall, Journey in Truth, p. 94.
3. Personal interview with Marie Bauer.
4. Personal interview with Byron Bird.
5. Hall, Marie Bauer, Quest for Bruton Vault: An American Williamsburg Happening (The Philosophical Research Society, 1984), p. 22.
6. Ibid., p. 11.
7. Ibid., p. 36.
8. Ibid., p 37
9. Ibid., p. 43.
10. Ibid., p. 51.
11. Ibid., p. 57.
12. Personal interviews with family members and family friends.
13. Hall, Marie Bauer, Quest for Bruton Vault, pp. 59–60.
14. Ibid., p. 65.
15. Ibid., p. 68.
16. Ibid., p. 75.
17. Ibid., p. 77.
18. Ibid., p. 83.
19. Ibid., p. 85; Hall, PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1988, p. 48.
20. Hall, Marie Bauer, Quest for Bruton Vault, p. 122.
21. Associated Press, October 9, 1938.
22. Personal interview with Bruce W. Bevan.
23. Hall, Marie Bauer, Foundations Unearthed (Veritas Press, fourth printing, 1974), p. 23.
24. Federal Bureau of Investigation memorandum, November 5, 1954.
25. Personal Interview with Fred Cole.
26. Personal interview with Anne Holliday.
27. Personal interview with Jo Ann O’Connor.
28. Los Angeles Superior Court, Dept. 5, No. 251305. January 16, 1947.
29. Personal interviews with family members.
30. Personal interview with Fred Cole.
31. Hall, “Beyond Nausea,” HORIZON, Summer 1950, p. 16.
32. Hall, “Inner Peace,” HORIZON, Autumn 1950, pp. 1–17.
33. Hall, “In Reply,” HORIZON, Summer 1950, p. 71.
34. Personal interview with Leila Sherman.
35. Personal interview with Laura Huxley.
36. Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1951.
37. Rasmussen, Cecilia, “L.A. Then and Now,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2000.
CHAPTER 6
1. “Happenings at Headquarters,” PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1974, p. 71.
2. FBI records.
3. Personal interview with Marie Hall.
4. “Actor Bela Lugosi, 72, Takes His Fifth Bride, 39,” Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1955.
5. Cremer, Robert, Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape (Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1976), p. 238.
6. “In Honor of Manly P. Hall’s Thirty-five Years of Service,” HORIZON, Autumn 1955, pp. 31–7.
7. Personal interview with astrologer Sydney Omarr.
8. Hall, “The Future of the Philosophical Research Society: A Personal Message from Manly P. Hall,” flyer, 1955.
9. Personal interview with Obadiah Harris.
10. Hall, letter to members of the Philosophical Research Society, July 1956.
11. Personal interview with Hedda Lark.
12. Personal interview with physician Adrienne Drake.
13. Personal interview with Don Ingalls.
14. Hall, “Television and the Subconscious Mind,” HORIZON, Summer 1957, pp. 1–9.
CHAPTER 7
1. Howie, A.J., “A Birth Out of Time,” HORIZON, Summer 1957, pp. 71–80.
2. Hall, lecture, “Practical Mysticism in Modern Living: Mystical Trends in Modern Psychology,” p. 2.
3. Hall, lecture, “Practical Mysticism in Modern Living; Part 3: Mystical Aspects of Modern Medicine,” p. 7.
4. Hall, Paracelsus, His Mystical and Medical Philosophy (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1997), p. 19.
5. Hartmann, Franz, The Life of Paracelsus (Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, 1997), p. 136.
6. Personal interview with Patricia Moore-Joshi, February 28, 2002.
7. Personal interview with Judy Crawford.
8. Personal interview with Dena L. Smith.
9. W. E. G., Know Your Magnetic Field, 1947, p. 31.
10. Montgomery, Ruth, Born to Heal (Popular Library, New York, 1973), p. 14, pp. 205–206.
11. Personal interview with Cole.
12. Personal interview with Agnes Bauer.
13. Personal interview with Robert Gerard.
14. Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux, The Essene Gospel of Peace (International Biogenic Society, Golden Anniversary Edition 1978), p. 55, pp. 15–16.
15. Szekely, Cosmotherapy (C.W. Daniel Company, Ltd., London, 1936).
16. Personal interview with Sterling Pollack.
17. Hall, lecture, “Practical Mysticism in Modern Living, Part 3,” p. 4.
18. Personal interview with Agnes Bauer.
19. Personal interview with Deborah Szekely.
20. Personal interview with Judith Marx.
21. Cattell, Jacques, editor, Directory of American Scholars, letter, 1956.
22. Lark, Hedda, letter, October 31, 1956.
23. Hall, lecture, “The Origin and Destiny of the Fifth Root Race,” 1951. Ibid.
24. Hall, Questions and Answers: Fundamentals of the Esoteric Sciences (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1965), p. 200.
25. Hall, “In Reply: A Department of Questions and Answers,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1972, pp. 52–56.
26. Hall, “The Jew Does Not Fit In,” HORIZON, May 1942, pp. 7–9.
27. Bailey, Alice, The Externalization of the Hierarchy (Lucis Publishing Co., London) p. 104.
28. Hall, lecture, “A Thoughtful Consideration of Capital Punishment,” October 1960.
29. Hall, “Studies in Character Analysis. Part 1: Phrenology,” HORIZON, Summer 1957, pp. 10-28.
30. Hall, lecture #315, “Some Reflections on the Subject of Earthquakes,” 1985.
31. Philosophical Research Society, advertisement, 1956.
32. Hall, dedication address, “Dedication Ceremony For the P.R.S. Auditorium, May 16, 1959,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1959, p. 33.
33. Ibid., p. 35.
34. LeGros, Cardinal, “Manly Palmer Hall: Plato in Hollywood,” Horoscope, August 1958.
35. Hamilton-Jones, J.W., Bacstrom’s Alchemical Anthology (London, 1960, first edition).
36. Hall, letter, July 27, 1960.
37. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (The Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles, 1929), pp. 414–415.
38. Hall, lecture, “The Great Conjunction of February 1962: The Most Important Planetary Configuration of Recent Years,” February 19, 1961.
39. Hall, lecture, “President Kennedy and His Stars: An Astro-psychological Study of the Man and His Job,” October 27, 1963.
40. Hall, “World Trends for 1963,” PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1963, p. 19.
41. Hall, “In Reply,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1961, pp. 51–58.
42. Hall, letter, October 18, 1962.
CHAPTER 8
1. Warner Brothers-Seven Arts Records, Inc., liner notes, Jackie Barnett Presents Sidney Poitier; Journeys Inside the Mind: The Dialogues of Plato, 1964.
2. Hall, Great Books on Religion and Esoteric Philosophy (The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1966), p. 7.
3. Personal interview with Stephan Hoeller.
4. Hall, letter, April 27, 1967.
5. Hall, “Happenings in the World,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1965, pp. 48–50.
6. Ibid., p. 50.
7. Hall, “My Philosophy,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1965, p. 29.
8. Ibid., p. 53.
9. Hall, Great Books on Religion and Esoteric Philosophy, pg. 1.
10. Ibid., p. 2.
11. Personal interview with Larry Geller.
12. Hall, “The Lotophagi,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1968, pp. 24–33.
13. Hall, “Happenings in the World,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1968, p. 64.
14. Personal interview with Michael Mirdad.
15. Hall, “In Reply,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1968, p. 50.
16. Personal interview with Carol Bell Knight.
17. Turner, William, and Jonn Christian, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and the Coverup (Carroll & Graf Publishers, An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 1993, 1978).
18. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, “bin Ladin’s Bookshelf,” May 20, 2015.
19. The Secret Teachings of All Ages, H.S. Crocker Company, 1928, p. 192.
20. Letter to Hall, December 10, 1969.
21. Personal interview with Clarke Johnston.
22. Personal interview with Irene Bird.
23. Personal interview with Dorothy Ives.
24. Personal interview with Elizabeth MacKenzie.
25. Personal interview with Elayne Manago.
26. Hall, letter, September 30, 1970.
27. The Philosophical Research Society, “Contributors’ Bulletin”, October 1970.
28. Personal interview with Byron Bird.
29. Personal interview with Sydney Omarr.
30. Hall, letter, August 10, 1970.
31. Personal interview with Robert Hieronimus.
32. Ibid.
33. Campbell, Robert Allen, Our Flag, or The Evolution of the Stars and Stripes (H.E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 1890).
34. Hall, letter, November 17, 1972.
35. Personal interview with Johnston.
36. Letter from Ervin, 1973.
37. Personal interview with Ann Badger.
38. Claire Pierpoint, letter, July 23, 1973.
39. Hall, letter, June 1, 1973.
CHAPTER 9
1. Personal interview with Robert Quinn.
2. Personal interview with Charlene Peters.
CHAPTER 10
1. Hall, “Happenings at Headquarters,” PRS JOURNAL, Spring 1974, p. 71.
2. Hall, letter, August 5, 1976.
3. John Ervin, letter, November 25, 1974.
4. Personal interview with Edgar Mitchell.
5. Wernher von Braun, dinner address at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco, February 27, 1975.
6. Personal interview with Edward Titus.
7. Personal interview with Dena L. Smith.
8. Hall, letter, May 5, 1977
9. Hall, letter, June 16, 1976.
10. Personal interview with Stephan A. Schwartz.
11. “Happenings at Headquarters,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1976, p. 71.
12. Bennett Bruce Gilbert, report, May 23, 1977.
13. Schwartz, letter, January 25, 1979.
14. Ibid.
15. Schwartz, letter, January 30, 1979.
16. Personal interview with Schwartz.
17. Schwartz, transcript of lecture at Philosophical Research Society, June 24, 1979.
18. “Happenings at Headquarters,” PRS JOURNAL, pp. 67–68.
19. Personal interview with Phil Boroff.
20. Ervin, letter, 1980.
21. Burl Ives, letter, September 3, 1980.
22. Hall, letter, 1980.
23. Hall, letter, September 10, 1980.
24. Personal interview with Pam Atkinson.
25. Personal interviews with Ron Hogart.
26. Personal interview with Walter Stewart
27. Personal interview with Art Johnson.
28. Personal interview with Anne Holliday.
29. Robert M. Fisher, honorary doctorate address at JFK University, June 20, 1981.
30. Cederberg, Beverly, The San Ramon Valley Herald, Wednesday, June 24, 1981.
31. Hall, quoted by Cederberg, June 24, 1981.
32. J. Turetsky, letter, May 7, 1981.
33. Personal interview with Turetsky.
34. Taun Cosetino Relihan, daily journal notes.
35. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, announcement, “In Memory of John Ervin,” April 1982.
36. Patricia Connelly Ervin, Los Angeles County Superior Court Deposition, October 24, 1991.
37. Ibid.
38. Wilbur A. Korfhage, letter, April 16, 1983.
39. Wahlstrom, Carl, correspondence with Hall.
CHAPTER 11
1. Personal interview with Heidi Knut.
CHAPTER 12
1. Personal interview with Oma Tuewen.
2. Personal interview with Betty Joan Pimmett.
3. Hall, letter, January 22, 1986.
4. Pimmett, letter, February 26, 1986.
5. Videotape of wedding ceremony, August 18, 1985.
6. Personal interview with Steve Marble.
7. Daniel Fritz, Los Angeles County Superior Court Depositions.
8. Personal interview with Clarke Johnston.
9. Personal interview with Mary Lou Keller, July 9, 2003.
10 George W. Morley, Red Rock News, Sedona, Arizona, May 1987.
11. Personal interview with Reba Glover.
12. Fritz, Los Angeles County Superior Court Deposition, November 14, 1991.
13. “Contributors’ Bulletin,” PRS JOURNAL, July 1987.
14. Fritz, Los Angeles County Superior Court Depositions.
15. Personal interview with Michael Orenstein.
16. Personal interview with Hogart.
17. Edith Joyce Waldron, deposition, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC016483.
18. Ibid.
19. Personal interview with Dan York.
20. Personal interview with Art Johnson.
CHAPTER 13
1. Personal interview with Brenda Wade.
2. Fritz, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Deposition, November 14, 1991.
3. Ibid.
4. “Special Report,” The Philosophical Research Society, 1987.
5. Personal interview with Georgia Lambert.
6. Personal interview with Badger.
7. Fritz, Academy Research Associates statement.
8. Personal interview with Jacob Tragert.
9. Personal interviews with Ron and Susan Tonini.
10. Personal interview with Claud Sutcliff.
11. Hall, “Now and Then,” PRS JOURNAL, Summer 1990, p. 49.
12. Personal interview with William Dodson.
13. Personal interview with Sterling Pollack.
14. Personal interview with J. Gordon Melton.
15. Management agreement, The Philosophical Research Society, September 28, 1988.
16. Personal interview with Michael Mitchell.
17. Michael Mitchell, deposition, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC016483, October 23, 1991.
18. Personal interview with Jan Hartke.
19. Hall, Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism: Mysteries of the Mandala (Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, 1988), p. 247.
20. Personal interview with Mogens Brandt.
21. Minutes of Trustees Meeting, Progress Report, The Philosophical Research Society, May 1990.
22. “Passing the Lamp,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1990, p. 11.
23. Personal interview with Evert Loomis.
24. Personal interview with Mogens Brandt, February 2, 2004.
25. O’Donnell, Santiago, “Last Western Mystic Thrives in Los Feliz,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1989.
25. “Passing the Lamp,” PRS JOURNAL, Winter 1990, p. 4.
26. Minutes of Trustees Meeting, The Philosophical Research Society, May 1990.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Letter of Partnership, Daniel Fritz, Manly P. Hall, Marie Bauer Hall, May 24, 1990; Declaration of Marie Bauer Hall, Los Angeles County Superior Court, BC016483, May 21, 1981.
30. Fritz, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Depositions.
31. Personal interview with witnesses.
32. Pollack, Sterling, deposition, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC 016483.
33. Personal interview with Pollack.
34. Brandt, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Deposition.
35. Personal interview with Brandt.
36. Personal interviews with family members.
37. Personal interview with Mogens Brandt.
38. Personal Interview with Judy Crawford.
39. Personal interview with Michael Marsellos.
40. Personal interview with Weir.
41. Personal interview with Douglas Cobb.
42. Pollack, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Deposition.
43. Personal interview with Jo Ann O’Connor.
44. Ibid.
45. Los Angeles County Superior Court plaintiff’s documents (Arthur Applebaum).
46. Fritz, deposition, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC016483, Volume II, November 15, 1991.
47. Ibid.
48. Personal interview with Brandt.
49. Personal interview with Cole.
50. Personal interview with Christina Monterastelli.
51. Personal interview with Bingham.
52. Personal interview with Donna Matson.
53. Personal interview with Walter Stewart.
54. Personal interview with Clarita Woolridge.
55. Personal interview with Susan Tonini.
56. Hall, Marie Bauer, “About the Premature Death of My Husband Manly Palmer Hall: A Personal Opinion.”
57. Personal interview with Jay Kenny.
58. Personal interview with H. Douglas Lemons.
59. Ibid.
60. Personal interview with Michael Copner.
61. Personal interview with Michael Mitchell.
CHAPTER 14
1. Pollack, deposition, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC016483, October 28, 1991.
2. Los Angeles County Coroner Case Report 90-8748.
3. Personal interview with O’Connor.
4. Personal interview with Helen James.
5. Cyril Wecht, autopsy report, 1990.
6. Personal interview with Lon Sandoval.
7. Los Angeles Police Department, Northeast Division, homicide file, Manly Palmer Hall.
8. Personal interview with Helen James.
9. Personal interview with James McCann.
10. Ibid.
11. Wecht, letter, June 27, 1995.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. The People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson, Los Angeles County Superior Court, BA097211, Reporter’s Transcript of Proceedings, Tuesday, June 14, 1995, Volume 166.
16. Personal interview with Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran.
17. Pool, Bob, “Search for Peace Leads to a Court Brawl,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1993.
18. Personal interview with Marilyn Joyce.
19. Joyce, Marilyn, quoted Schneider in New Perspectives, Nov./Dec. 1993.
20. Pool, Bob, “A Materialistic Fate for a Philosophical Legacy,” Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1994.
21. Ibid.
22. Plaintiff’s Closing Brief, Los Angeles County Superior Court, No. BC016483, August 18, 1992.
23. “Community Digest, Los Feliz, Center Named a Monument,” Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1993.
24. Personal interview with Doreen Key.
25. Personal interview with Doreen Key.
26. Personal interview with Harris.
27. Personal interview with Michael Gerber.
28. Personal interview with Clarita Woolridge.