Devoted to Spiritual and Philosophical Problems – by Manly P. Hall
July 1, 1934
Dear Friend:
Aristotle opens his celebrated treatise ON METAPHYSICS with the statement: “All men naturally desire to know.” The 3rd and 4th branches of Metaphysics are concerned with the substance and nature of KNOWLEDGE and the relationship between things known and that abstract state of knowing which we term TRUTH.
In his famous work THE NEW ATLANTIS, Sir Francis Bacon describes a philosophic empire, ruled over by enlightened men, which is some day to be established upon the earth. In the midst of this empire is the City of Wisdom, and in the midst of this city a university of the arts and sciences named SOLOMON’S HOUSE. The master of this House thus describes the true purpose of knowledge: “The end of our foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.”
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André Archive 