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“The ancients believed that the star-strewn heavens was nothing but a beautiful jeweled robe concealing the true structure and nature of the infinite. That the infinite is not an infinitude of stars or suns or moons; it is not an infinity of microbes, either.  The infinite is a tremendous reality beyond our conception.”
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Manly P. Hall

Welcome to the November issue of The New Journal of the Philosophical Research Society.


For more than a thousand years the Samhain season has been the time to commune with entities inhabiting the mysterious otherworld—living but unhuman beings, strange liminal spirits, and the revenant ghosts of the dead populated this other dimension—and the dark hills and ancient mounds were the threshold stage where we could meet them. Out in the night-lit fields and woodlands, intrepid men and women who were sensitive to the shadow-space shimmer of the half-light home of the sidhe found their sight into the future and brought home half-seen stories from the shade. Samhain was the time for soothsaying, for visionaries, for the future.


They returned into the light of the hearth with stories of love and wealth and war—with half-heard hints of what would be, and visions like reflections in rippling water, ambiguous and uncertain. The future is a foreign country, and we interpret shadows—there may be truths in second-sight, but the wise decipher the mysteries of their tricksy visions with care and discrimination. 


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Ancient Waters and Modern Life
by Angel Millar
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Samhain
​​​By Michael Pearce
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Pebbles From Heaven 
​​​By Manly P. Hall
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Holy Pools, Wells and Mystical Waters
​​​​By 
Mark Storer
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The Death of Empedocles  
​By Patrick Salway
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WATER: Blood and Heart of Earth
​By Raïna Manuel-Paris
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Twenty Years of Essence and Alchemy
​By Thea Wirsching
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Poet's Page
Featuring William Butler Yeats

← view previous, Issue 6 "The Veil"

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The New 2022 PRS Journal is published with the support of: Michael J. Pearce (editor), Michelle Song (design), David Orr (banner design), Kelly Carmena & Matthew Taylor  (copyediting), & supporters like you.
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Ancient Waters and Modern Life
by Angel Millar
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Samhain
​​​By Michael Pearce
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Pebbles From Heaven 
​​​By Manly P. Hall
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WATER: Blood and Heart of Earth ​By Raïna Manuel-Paris
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Holy Pools, Wells and Mystical Waters ​​​​By Mark Storer
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Twenty Years of Essence and Alchemy ​By Thea Wirsching
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The Death of Empedocles  
​By Patrick Salway
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Poet's Page
Featuring William Butler Yeats

← view previous, Issue 6 "The Veil"


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      • Manly Hall, A Personal Perspective
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      • John Bucher
      • Sandra del Castillo
      • Devon Deimler
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      • David Orr
      • Marina Pacowski
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      • Fahad Siadat
      • Eliza Swann
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      • Current Issue
      • Past Issues >
        • December - Winter Festivals
        • November - Water
        • October - The Veil
        • September-Harvest
        • August - Fire
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        • June - Solar
        • May - Rebirth
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      • Manly P. Hall Book Bundles
    • MPH Audio >
      • MPH Collection at BetterListen.com
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    • Reprint Series curated by MPH
    • Books and Catalogs >
      • Dr. Obadiah Harris
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