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LIBRARY DAY ORACLE by damaManly P. Hall’s reflections on this time of the year reveals the birth of light as not a histo...
12/18/2025

LIBRARY DAY ORACLE by dama

Manly P. Hall’s reflections on this time of the year reveals the birth of light as not a historical reenactment but a recurring event about consciousness entering matter at its coldest, densest point. The vessel of interior consciousness where we learn to follow through study, ethical refinement, gratitude and silence. A place in time where nothing arrives fully formed and light must be tended to.

And in Blavatsky’s theosophical view On the New Year, we meet with her insistence that time itself is impressionable and that the astral life of the earth, she emphasizes, is especially receptive between Christmas and Easter. This makes the season less a celebration than a responsibility. What we think, study, and consecrate now quietly imprints the cycle ahead.

In every way you celebrate and reflect on during this season, the miracle is not abundance but endurance. A measured flame, lit again and again, refusing extinction.

Moving toward the New Year, we see various traditions converging into a teaching of renewal that does not come from severance, but from careful continuity. Among Blavatsky, Hall, and the astrological world of Corinne’s Star Gates, we meet these cycles turning not forward, but inward and asking what kind of light we are willing to carry, protect, and pass on.

🧠 “It is a mistake to infer that the pineal gland as a physical body literally possesses all the occult virtues ascribed...
12/18/2025

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“It is a mistake to infer that the pineal gland as a physical body literally possesses all the occult virtues ascribed to it by the sages. The gland itself is not the third eye, but only the reflection of that organ— its counterpart or symbol in the material constitution. It is a relic bearing witness to an ancient faculty, and because it has endured through these eras of spiritual obscuration, promises the ultimate restoration of the function to which it bears witness.

“The true power of the gland is in its spiritual counter-
part, even as the whole strength of man abides in his invisible nature. The true third eye cannot be seen by the ordinary vision, but is visible to the clairvoyant as a vibrant spectromatic aura surrounding the outer body of the gland and pulsating with an electrical light.

“The special physical organ of perception in the brain,.” writes H. P. Blavatsky, “is located in the aura of the
pineal gland. This aura answers in vibration to any impression, but it can only be sensed, not perceived, in the living man.

“During the process of thought, manifesting in consciousness, a constant vibration occurs in the light of this aura, and a clairvoyant looking at the brain of a living man may almost count, see with the spiritual eye, the seven scales, the seven shades of light, passing from the dullest to the brightest. You touch your hand; before you touch it the vibration is already in the aura of the pineal gland, and has its own shade of color. It is this aura which causes the wear and tear of the organ, by the vibrations it sets up.

“The fires are always playing around the pineal gland but when the Kundalini illuminates them for a brief instant the whole universe is seen. Even in deep sleep the third eye opens. This is good for Manas, who profits by it, though we ourselves do not remember.”

▫️MACROCOSM \ Microcosm ◼️Both words primarily signify wholeness and correspond to the Leibnitzian theory of monads and...
12/16/2025

▫️MACROCOSM \ Microcosm ◼️

Both words primarily signify wholeness and correspond to the Leibnitzian theory of monads and the atomism of Leucippus and Democritus. The Macrocosm is a vast monad, the microcosm a relatively smaller monad similar in design but less in quantity and contained within the larger organism.

The terms macrocosm and microcosm do not necessarily imply the world and man, but rather signify such correspondences as exist between two such constitutions. Man is a microcosm when compared to the universe, but a macrocosm when compared to some single organ within himself.

According to the Pythagorean doctrine, “wholes” are not actually composed of parts in the sense of fractions or fragments, but in reality of lesser “wholes,” which are termed “parts” only when compared to the greater unity which they conspire to make up.

Hence, every atom is a wholeness bearing within it the stamp and signature of the whole world, every grain of sand an image of the universe. When man is termed a microcosm, it is not to be inferred that he is merely a “part” of the world but, rather, like all other “parts” so-called, is in reality a miniature of the world.

A somewhat more adequate idea of this can be secured from a study of the symbolic tetrahedron of the Pythagoreans.”

Art by J. Augustus Knapp
Words by Manly P. Hall

“MACROCOSM - MICROCOSM”
Man, The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries (1972)

BOOKSTORE picks 🌹 Symbolorum revives the Baroque emblem book, a 17th-century form that wove image, motto, and meditation...
12/13/2025

BOOKSTORE picks 🌹

Symbolorum revives the Baroque emblem book, a 17th-century form that wove image, motto, and meditation into a single contemplative device. Neither purely literary nor purely visual, emblems were meant to be lived with and studied slowly, sensed intuitively, and returned to over time. In this way, they feel like a long-lost cousin of the tarot, the artist’s book, and the symbolic systems many of us turn to now for meaning-making beyond linear reason.

Drawing from centuries-old engravings of plants, animals, and elemental forces, she invites us into a worldview where nature is animate and mysterious. Her background as a perfumer and historian of scent subtly inflects the book, reminding us that knowledge once moved through the body as much as the intellect.

We’re excited to welcome Mandy Aftel to PRS for a conversation around this book, followed by a q&a with artist and educator Eliza Swann, opening space to reflect on how these antique symbols might still speak to our present moment.

RSVP via prs.org DECEMBER 14, 2025 (ONLINE EVENT) 11AM (PST)




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✨

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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."