![]() He lived at the Rosicrucian Fellowship founded by Max Heindel but grew suspicious of the order’s claims to ancient wisdom and soon moved to Los Angeles. He came under the influence of self-styled followers of Rosicrucianism in Oceanside, California. Hall’s career as a mystic sage began in 1919, when he came to California to be reunited with his mother. His grandmother died when he was sixteen and he traveled to California to be with his mother. Later on, the bookish adolescent was enrolled in a military school. There was a spark of some indefinable brilliance in the youth, which his grandmother nurtured on trips to museums in Chicago and New York.įor a time, the two of them lived in the high-end hotel Palmer House in Chicago where Hall was mostly in the company of grown-ups, including a traditionally garbed Hindu maitre d’hotel, who taught him adult etiquette. He was a sickly child, got little schooling but read voraciously on his own. When he was two years old, she brought him to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where they lived for several years. Hall’s parents had separated while his mother was still pregnant with him, and he soon came into the care of his maternal grandmother, Florence Palmer. His father was a dentist and his mother was a chiropractor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Manly Hall was born on Main the rural city of Peterborough, Ontario. ![]()
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