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    <title>First principles of philosophy: direction of mental activity in the science of perfection</title>
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    <namePart>Hall, Manly Palmer</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Philosophical Research Society Inc</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1949</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>199 p.: 23cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Metaphysics, the nature of being and of God: The Nature of knowledge and of truth -- The Nature of energy and of creation -- The Nature of divine and human relationships -- Logic, the rule of reason -- Ethics, the code of conduct -- Psychology, the science of soul -- Epistemology, the nature of knowledge -- Esthetics, the urge to beauty: A Little essay on beauty -- Theurgy, the living of wisdom -- The Beginning of Greek philosophy -- Great sayings of the sophists -- Definitions in philosophy -- The Lotus of the law -- The Ten bulls -- Destruction of the Alexandrian library.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Manly Palmer Hall</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Occultism</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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