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Palmer Hall was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most
famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic
Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical
Philosophy, published in 1928 when he was 27 years old.
He was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San
Francisco in 1953, although he was not raised until 22 November 1954
into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , San Francisco. He later received his 32° in
the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ). In 1973 (47 years after writing
The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33º Mason
(the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish
Rite), at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8.
In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures
in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays,
and wrote countless magazine articles.
