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Periodical: A Monthly Letter (Manly Hall)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Monthly Letter, A.
Devoted to Spiritual and Philosophical Problems.
Other titles: Student’s Monthly Letter / Carta Mensual
1934--1941? Monthly
Los Angeles, CA. Language: English and Spanish. Publisher: Phoenix Press. Editor: Manly Palmer Hall.

1/1, July 1, 1934-1941(?). 4 pp. The letter initially accompanied a lesson or talk by Hall, usually 12-pages in length, on topics like "Definitions of Philosophy" and "Some Philosophical Fragments." With May 1937 the title of the journal was changed to Student’s Monthly Letter, and then in 1940 was changed back to the initial title. A Spanish version (Carta Mensuel) was published for a time beginning in 1935.

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Issues:A Monthly Letter May 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Jun 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Jul 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Aug 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Sep 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Oct 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Nov 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Dec 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Jan 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Feb 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Mar 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Apr 1 1935
A Monthly Letter May 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Jun 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Jul 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Aug 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Sep 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Oct 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Nov 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Dec 1 1935
Carta Mensual May 1 1935
Carta Mensual Jun 1 1935
Carta Mensual Jul 1 1935
Carta Mensual Aug 1 1935
A Monthly Letter Jan 1 1936
A Monthly Letter Feb 1 1936
A Monthly Letter Mar 1 1936
A Monthly Letter Apr 1 1936
A Monthly Letter May 1936
A Monthly Letter Jun 15 1936
A Monthly Letter Jul 15 1936
A Monthly Letter Aug 15 1936
A Monthly Letter Sep 15 1936
A Monthly Letter Oct 20 1936
A Monthly Letter Nov 1936
A Monthly Letter Dec 1936
A Monthly Letter Jan 1937
A Monthly Letter Feb 15 1937
A Monthly Letter Mar 15 1937
A Monthly Letter Apr 1937
The Students Monthly Letter May 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Jun 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Jul 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Aug 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Sep 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Oct 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Nov 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Dec 1937
The Students Monthly Letter Jan 1938
The Students Monthly Letter Feb 1938
The Students Monthly Letter Mar 1938
The Students Monthly Letter Apr 1938
A Monthly Letter Aug 1940
A Monthly Letter Sep 1940
A Monthly Letter Oct 1940
A Monthly Letter Nov 1940
A Monthly Letter Dec 1940
A Monthly Letter Jan 1941
A Monthly Letter Feb 1941
A Monthly Letter Mar 1941
A Monthly Letter Apr 1941
A Monthly Letter May 1941
A Monthly Letter Jun 1941
A Monthly Letter Jul 1941
Claude-Generated Themes:   A Monthly Letter was Manly Palmer Hall's subscription teaching bulletin, issued through the 1930s as he built the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. Where his lectures reached crowds, the Letter offered subscribers a steady, unsensational course in what Hall presented as the perennial wisdom underlying all traditions — Hermetic, Neoplatonic, Rosicrucian, Masonic and Eastern sources woven into a single program of initiation and disciplined self-culture. Its vocabulary of discipleship, illumination, karma and inner work places it firmly in Western esoteric philosophy, with astrology and alchemy handled as symbolic sciences rather than practical arts. The tone is that of a patient teacher: reflective, ethical, and aimed at the gradual perfection of the student rather than at marvels or mind-cure.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Perennial Philosophy and Comparative Religion