☿ Manly P. Hall - On Norse Myth [Lecture] ☿
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Manly P. Hall - On Norse Mythology Norse mythology, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of mythology of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition. Numerous gods are mentioned in the source texts such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting god Thor, who relentlessly pursues his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge throughout the worlds and bestowed among humanity the runic alphabet; the beautiful, seiðr-working, feathered cloak-clad goddess Freyja who rides to battle to choose among the slain; the vengeful, skiing goddess Skaði, who prefers the wolf howls of the winter mountains to the seashore; the powerful god Njörðr, who may calm both sea and fire and grant wealth and land; the god Freyr, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdallr, who is born of nine mothers, can hear grass grow, has gold teeth, and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to the gods by engineering the death of the goddess Frigg's beautiful son Baldr; and numerous other deities. Most of the surviving mythology centers on the plights of the gods and their interaction with various other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes and/or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consist of Nine Worlds that flank a central cosmological tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla. These worlds are foretold to be reborn after the events of Ragnarök, when an immense battle occurs between the gods and their enemies, and the world is enveloped in flames, only to be reborn anew. There the surviving gods will meet, and the land will be fertile and green, and two humans will repopulate the world. Norse mythology has been the subject of scholarly discourse since the 17th century, when key texts were brought to the attention of the intellectual circles of Europe. By way of comparative mythology and historical linguistics, scholars have identified elements of Germanic mythology reaching as far back as Proto-Indo-European mythology. In the modern period, the Romanticist Viking revival re-awoke an interest in the subject matter, and references to Norse mythology may now be found throughout modern popular culture. The myths have further been revived in a religious context among adherents of Germanic Neopaganism. Books by Manly P. Hall: - The Secret Teaching of All Ages: http://amzn.to/2172vz5 - The Secret Teachings of All Ages: http://amzn.to/248kBTL - The Secret Destiny of America: http://amzn.to/2172E5v - The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: http://amzn.to/1Tm2rsz - The Occult Anatomy of Man: http://amzn.to/248kRSN - Spiritual Centers in Man: http://amzn.to/1Tm2AMJ - Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah: http://amzn.to/2172Lhz Relevant Books: - The Kybalion: http://amzn.to/248ljjR - The Corpus Hermeticum: http://amzn.to/248lADp - The Fool's Pilgrimage: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot: http://amzn.to/1QjWNlC - Food of the Gods: http://amzn.to/1QjWPty - The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: http://amzn.to/1QjWTtx - The Gnostic Gospels: http://amzn.to/1QjWW8y
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Some of the stories are completely false and many of the details in the rest are under/overblown.. I think Hall did not know much about Odin etc.
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I know you are dead gone Mr. Hall , and I respect all of your works, but your resources of Nordic Lore is off. Though I still enjoyed the esoteric message you sought from what part of the lore you did gather.
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Great Summary , Thank You
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I transcribed word for word (not perfectly) the meat of the first hour. Universal mind, what that is and how it unlocks the energies within matter.
Spelling is sketchy here but I wanted to get the story....The Universe is formed
The All Father nameless formless, always permitting, never denying, even the greatest of mortal immortals, producing worlds unto itself and returning them to itself, the ultimate of cause the ultimate of effect; byss and abyss time and eternity, nothing and all, bounded by great cliffs of fire and the other extremity great cliffs of ice, a vast mist evolved in the abyss, the fire was the all father, also the cold and the ice, master of light and darkness, heat and cold, concept of duality, magnetism, polarization of space, giants in the north, the giants of ice, bodies made of glaciers, those of the south with arms howling and shrieking. As the mingling of frost and fire, great clouds of hoarfrost, strange frosty mist, swirled throughout the ages, gradually formed a strange shape of an immense incredible giant composed of fire and ice life and death, the name of the giant Ymir in the uterine abyss. there wandered from where we know not...a kindly gentle cow appeared, the Great Mother, Hathor cow Goddess forever in need of salt found 3 sleeping beings, Odin and his brothers, turned and slew his father the great primordial being and upon his body created the world. the body began to rot and out of that rot came life and all types of beings.
This paragraph is where I got more detailed....Why Odin had to slay his children
Nima - cold being older than odin, the roots of the tree. Odin wen to him- he told odin to pluck out his eye and throw it into the pool. Nima gave him the runes that he cut into his spear shaft and ascended back to earth. The ancients asked him to give his life - went to the tree and hanged himself. he didnt die, he couldnt die until the great day had come. While waiting he created all the wisdom he had learned. Squirrels on the tree...listen to the gods in valhalla and then rushed down to the roots of the trees where the demons were and told the demons the news. Odin had to fight for his throne with Thor the thunderer had power over lightening carried a great hammer like a boomerang in the form of a cross could defeat enemies. Thor was mighty, Odin overcame him and accepted him, became a faithful servant of the new order. Odin presides over the Great Council. For odin to create his castle at Arsgard he paid the giants but came under a curse. An evil thing had been done; broken honor would ultimately destroy them. Created out of himself a son Baldr the beautiful, happiness joy peace, ideal. He was forever shining, believed in music and art, brought peace to the whole world. Odin decreed Baldr would forever be safe. Baldr died by an arrow made of mistletoe. Odin knew he could only create things in time, not in eternity, that he would die. He couldnt solve the mystery, where he came from, what was the future? Devised a strategy created a people set aside to do his will, the Bolsons (sp?) whose race would produce the hero of the world. Sigmund would become the hero. The brother and sister fell in love, against nature and demanded the goddess of law and virtue Odin destroy his children Sigmund and Sigmunde. Odin had a thought and it became a being...speaks to brunhilde and sends her as his thought in disobedience as she saves the child of Sigmund and Sigmunde. Sigmund knew not his parents. Like Parsival said his mother was the sorrow of the world. He cast the great sword and became the hero. He slew the Giant. Begins the great Rhine (space) journey. Odin knew the hero was journeying to his death. 3 grave sisters who swing the destiny. mystery of survival. Sigr died. The waters rise and the universe ends. The world ends. One mountain top remains and adam and eve are born. The midgard serpent rises from the seas, raising flames on the field of battle. Heroes and villians, each one slaying his enemy as he slays himself. The worms gnawed through the roots of the tree of life and it dies and goes back to space. All Father remains forever, observing knowing silent.
This is basically word for word....Mortal Immortal is not born.
Norse myths many worlds planes, levels in a strange composite. The world of Odin and his gods, past away in the ragnarok, not necessarily the cataclysm in the material world, even the sinking of Atlantis; the submerging of a great empire, the submerging of consciousness, vast psychological symbol, legend tied to appropriate factual circumstance. Odin is never born, comes out of the ice awakened from sleep by the heat of the Cow Mother licking the ice looking for salt. The concept of Universal Mind, which is the demi-god, the Mortal Immortal. Mind can solve every mystery except the mystery of itself. Mind can rule matter but can never fathom the depths of consciousness. Mind can order everything inferior to itself but cannot order itself. Mind can give man a knowledge of all environmental things, weighed estimated and polarized. and the world over which mind rules was polarized, with the struggle of the force giants and the plane giants. Ruling as regent over creation is this universal mind which was not born but was released from sleep or ice. Ice like Egyptian symbol of ice, used as a preservative. Men knew refrigeration. The cosmic suspension which they recognized in this Nordic land creation was periodic, a great wave came out and retired again ebb and flow of the sea, after the day of manifestation came the great night of suspension everything was caused to flow in the abyss, everything held in a grip of sleep, seemingly represented the ice, which like archetypal structure held things, unchanging until released again. The Cow mother represents nature the principle of natural emerges, had the power that brought forth intellect released the mind from sleep. Probably because ultimately Nature produced those kinds of forms in which mind could express itself or be released into manifestation. Thus nature releases mind by building bodies, refining faculties and making possible the manifestation of an intellectual power. So Odin is the demiurgus - the Zeus, the regent of a world, a level of existence. Odin as mind moving upon chaos, destroyed it and fashioned cosmos from its remains. destroys the sleeping giant of matter, mind brings order out of chaos, mind destroys the sleeping giant of matter, releases the energies that are locked within it, mind in its various polarizations represented by its two brother dieties, also turns ultimately and overcomes the power...AUDIO CUTS OFF HERE....
Overcomes the power of what? How? There is more to this lecture. Common searches are all the same, cuts off there. If anyone has the original recording, unless this is what is left of the original, please post! I want to transcribe the rest to hear what he says. All hail MPH! Thanks 13 May '16 -
this is an aspect of history that should be taught from birth. I love the cow....melts the frozen beings with her tongue and they wake up. so natural and beautiful.
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Yeah, no, that makes perfect sense. A theistic creation myth about fire and ice, dark and light (because these elements wouldn't have been enough to inspire awe and wonder in a group of people who lived relatively close to the Arctic Circle), is really an allegory about electromagnetism. I didn't realize that lectures about theology generally don't require citation or even textual referencing. Damn, I wonder I was never made to read Hall in any of the mythology, literature, or philosophy texts I was assigned at university? It must be because Hall is such a brilliant and individual thinker that academia is intimidated by him. Hell, if anybody even knew about this guy then Humanities departments around the world would be consumed by the sheer intellectual gravity of this man -- you know, kind of like light being pulled into a black hole; something the ancient Norsemen must certainly also have known about. I think they had a myth about an old dilettante, who dressed up like a sage, and had a giant asshole that swallowed the world.
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Flowery words.
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A good start here. Manly P. Hall
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Something in each of these often strikes a chord with me, and I find them quite comforting. Thanks
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Hall gets some of the myths wrong not sure if it is intended or not. His spirit is so powerful it doesn't matter to me he was an. awesome teacher and seer.
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Manly Hall was among the first of my favorite philosophers and remains as such to this day. What an intriguing variety of subjects he has touched upon with graceful knowledge.
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I thought it was a nice coincidence that when Hall informed us that Wagner assigned a key to each step of his mythological story he said it in the 7th minute of the lecture, I can't put in words how much I love listening to this man's voice and the wisdom it carries, every morning of everyday gotta listen to a Manly P Hall lecture
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Thank you for all these great uploads man, I really appreciate the effort.
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I had been looking for this exact lecture from the late great Manly Hall, lots of thanks! As a Scandinavian this will be a treat!
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