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LIBRARY DAY ORACLE by damaToday we step into the archives of time and numbers as we soon part with 2025 as a 9 year cycl...
12/12/2025

LIBRARY DAY ORACLE by dama

Today we step into the archives of time and numbers as we soon part with 2025 as a 9 year cycle, a sacred threshold where endings become initiation.

In numerology, Sepharial called Nine “the number of the perfected cycle” and the digit that returns always to itself, the indestructible core of spirit. No matter how it multiplies, Nine comes home whole. It is the eternal flame.

In sacred geometry, Nine is the spiral turning point,
the place where energy completes its revolution
and prepares to evolve into a new form, representing the culmination of all previous numbers (1-8) and linking back to 1 to start anew, embodying totality, divine wisdom, and the highest consciousness, often linked to the enneagon (9-sided shape) and cosmic cycles.

In Tarot, this is The Hermit (shown here is the Hermit from MPH and Knapp’s deck) - he represents the guardian of light, the seeker of knowledge that comes from within.

In the Tree of Life, it is Yesod, the subtle foundation where imagination, memory, and vibration shape reality.

2025 invited us to refine and re-define our frequency,
to shed what is outgrown and no longer serve us,
to listen to the Infinite Point of Yod glowing inside.



This is a year of mystical clarity, luminous solitude, and spiritual coherence.
Follow the spiral. Tend your flame.
Nine brings you back to your true self.

As Audre Lorde reminds us:

“When I dare to be powerful—
to use my strength in the service of my vision—
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Visit our bookstore for your holiday shopping AND check out our resident readers this week!FRIDAY 12-4PM: Intuitive Read...
12/11/2025

Visit our bookstore for your holiday shopping AND check out our resident readers this week!

FRIDAY 12-4PM: Intuitive Readings & Love Limpias by
SATURDAY 12-2PM/4PM-7PM: Astrology & Tarot Readings by

Other consider Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius as themurderers of the sun, inasmuch as Osiris was murderedby Typhon, to ...
12/11/2025

Other consider Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius as the
murderers of the sun, inasmuch as Osiris was murdered
by Typhon, to whom were assigned the thirty degrees of the constellation of Scorpio. In the Christian Mysteries also Judas signifies the Scorpion, and the thirty pieces of silver for which he betrayed His Lord represent the number of degrees in that sign. Having been struck by Libra (the state), Scorpio (the church), and Sagittarius (the mob), the sun (CHiram) is secretly
borne through the darkness by the signs of Capricom,
Aquarius, and Pisces and buried over the brow of a hill
(the veral equinox). Capricorn has for its symbol an
old man with a scythe in his hand. This is Father Time
—a wayfarerwho is symbolized in Masonry as
straightening out the ringlets of a young girl’s hair. If
the Weeping Virgin be considered a symbol of Virgo,
and Father Time with his scythe a symbol of Capri-
com, then the interval of nincty degroes between these
two signs will be found to correspond to that occupied
by the three murderers. Esoterically, the um containing
the ashes of CHiram represenes the human heart. Satum, the old man who lives at the north pole, and brings with him to the children of men a sprig of evergreen (the Christmas tree), is familiar to the little folks under the name of Santa Claus, for he brings each winter the gift of a new year.”
— p. L X X I X

Krampus is near! This Saturday PRS will be transformed into a folkloric landscape full of costumed Krampuses! We’ll also...
12/10/2025

Krampus is near! This Saturday PRS will be transformed into a folkloric landscape full of costumed Krampuses! We’ll also be featuring vendors for this special occasion, all selling incredible goods perfect for getting into the Krampus spirit!

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Plus, two of Al’s Krampus and folklore books will be on sale in the bookstore! Grab your copy!!

See you there!
This event is sold out but there will be a standby line.
Happening this coming Saturday 12/13✨

In the Summer of 2020 an unidentified box was discovered on the highest shelf of the darkest corner of the warehouse. A...
12/09/2025

In the Summer of 2020 an unidentified box was discovered on the highest shelf of the darkest corner of the warehouse. An unusually heavy box, it no doubt remained undetectable to the unadventurous workers beneath it for decades as negotiations between a 15-foot ladder and gravity were alternately brave and dumb.

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After wiping away generational layers of I-5 dust and removing ancient packing tape & stuffing, the contents could finally be revealed. The terracotta face of Manly Hall’s Collected Works volume II - printed in 1959. Printed in 1959 in that very same warehouse. Back when it was a printing press and not a warehouse.

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This volume presents Manly’s eight favorite Sages and Seers between the 16th to the 20th century. Their lives, though surrounded by mystery, stand out as inspiring examples of mystical idealism, devout aspiration, and sincere dedication.

Michael Nostradamus, Seer of France - The 16th-century physician whose mysterious prophecies and medical skill have amazed the world.

Francis Bacon -

Jakob Boehme -

Comte de St. Germain -

William Blake -

and a man who has an entire shelf dedicated just to him in the Manly Hall Library — Thomas Taylor. This English Platonist was a large part of Manly’s early education into occult sciences is well known for his translations and interpretations of ancient Greek philosophy.

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Hardcover - dark green with gold embossed lettering. Dust jacket is showing some minor wear and tear.
An oldie AND a goodie.

#1959

LIBRARY DAY ORACLES by dama “We are being called to face the monsters of our own making—monsters born from denial, disav...
12/04/2025

LIBRARY DAY ORACLES by dama

“We are being called to face the monsters of our own making—monsters born from denial, disavowal, and the desire to dominate what we do not understand.”
- Vanessa Andreotti

This Saturday we gather here at PRS to ask a necessary question: What does antifascism mean now, in a world where the past is constantly returning in new disguises?
From Surrealism’s past to present we inherit a tradition that understands imagination not as escape, but as a weapon of clarity and a method for exposing what power tries to keep invisible.

Today, fascism returns not only through militarized states, xenophobic policies, and suppression of dissent, but through cultural erosion: the policing of bodies, the silencing of marginalized voices, the shrinking of public space, and the illusion that progress is inevitable. The symposium will explore how artists and thinkers have historically pushed back, and how we continue that work now.

We honor those who risked everything to oppose fascism from the margins, from those who revealed its shadows long before the world named them, and the new generation forging creative resistance in real time.

By centering the lineages that were always there but rarely acknowledged. By treating surrealism not as museum style but as an unfinished project of feminist, q***r, anti-colonial freedom.

Join us as we reclaim the imaginative tools used to suppress us, and gather in the shared labor of building a world where liberation is not an abstraction but a practice and a call to action.

In collaboration with and support from

2-6pm at PRS auditorium. Inspired by the anthology Surrealism Anti-Fascism pictured here and available for research at our library.

🎆“The sign of Sagittarius consists of what the ancient Greeks called a centaur a centaur — a composite creature, the low...
12/02/2025

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“The sign of Sagittarius consists of what the ancient Greeks called a centaur a centaur — a composite creature, the lower half of whose body was in the form of a horse, while the upper half was human. The centaur is generally shown with a bow and arrow in his hands, aiming a shaft far off into the stars. Hence Sagittarius stands for two distinct principles: first, it represents the spiritual evolution of man, for the human form is rising from the body of the beast; secondly, it is the symbol of aspiration and ambition, for as the centaur aims his arrow at the stars, so every human creature aims at a higher mark than he can reach.“

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“The spiritual nature of man descended into material existence from the Milky Way — the seed ground of souls — through one of the twelve gates of the great zodiacal band. The spiritual nature was therefore said to incarnate in the form of the symbolic creature created by Magian star gazers to represent the various zodiacal constellations. All human beings were thus symbolized by twelve mysterious creatures through the natures of which they were able to incarnate into the material world. The theory of transmigration was not applicable the visible material body of man, but rather to the invisible immaterial spirit wandering along the pathway of the stars and entially assuming in the course of evolution the forms of the sacred zodiacal animals.”
— p. L V I
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Dedicated to the Truth-Seekers of All Time

The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) was founded in 1934 by wisdom scholar and prolific author Manly P. Hall as a repository of the world’s wisdom. His international travels culminated in the collection of manuscripts, rare books, artwork, and esoterica that became the foundation for the library, designed by architect Robert Stacy-Judd in 1935. The historic Mayan-inspired campus is home as well to an art gallery, auditorium, bookstore, and lecture room. A nonprofit institution, PRS offers a full calendar of lectures, online courses, workshops, wellness classes, concerts, and special events to the general public. As the 1959 inscription on the cornerstone of Hall's auditorium reads, PRS is "Dedicated to the truth seekers of all time."