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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.

This material retrieved from manlyhall dot org.

Other Sources:
Issues:A Monthly Letter May 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Jun 1 1934
A Monthly Letter Jul 1 1934
A Monthly Letter August 1 1934
A Monthly Letter September 1 1934
A Monthly Letter October 1 1934
A Monthly Letter November 1 1934
A Monthly Letter December 1 1934
A Monthly Letter January 1 1935
A Monthly Letter February 1 1935
A Monthly Letter March 1 1935
A Monthly Letter April 1 1935
A Monthly Letter May 1 1935
A Monthly Letter June 1 1935
A Monthly Letter July 1 1935
A Monthly Letter August 1 1935
A Monthly Letter September 1 1935
A Monthly Letter October 1 1935
A Monthly Letter November 1 1935
A Monthly Letter December 1 1935
Carta Mensual May 1 1935
Carta Mensual June 1 1935
Carta Mensual July 1 1935
Carta Mensual August 1 1935
A Monthly Letter January 1 1936
A Monthly Letter February 1 1936
A Monthly Letter March 1 1936
A Monthly Letter April 1 1936
A Monthly Letter May 1936
A Monthly Letter June 15 1936
A Monthly Letter July 15 1936
A Monthly Letter August 15 1936
A Monthly Letter September 15 1936
A Monthly Letter October 20 1936
A Monthly Letter November 1936
A Monthly Letter December 1936
A Monthly Letter January 1937
A Monthly Letter February 15 1937
A Monthly Letter March 15 1937
A Monthly Letter April 1937
The Students Monthly Letter May 1937
The Students Monthly Letter June 1937
The Students Monthly Letter July 1937
The Students Monthly Letter August 1937
The Students Monthly Letter September 1937
The Students Monthly Letter October 1937
The Students Monthly Letter November 1937
The Students Monthly Letter December 1937
The Students Monthly Letter January 1938
The Students Monthly Letter February 1938
The Students Monthly Letter March 1938
The Students Monthly Letter April 1938
A Monthly Letter August 1940
A Monthly Letter September 1940
A Monthly Letter October 1940
A Monthly Letter November 1940
A Monthly Letter December 1940
A Monthly Letter January 1941
A Monthly Letter February 1941
A Monthly Letter March 1941
A Monthly Letter April 1941
A Monthly Letter May 1941
A Monthly Letter June 1941
A Monthly Letter July 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