Manly Hall’s book on the hidden destiny of America is a well written and easy to read book of America as the Neoplatonic Utopia. Citing from rare and obscure references you will discover some amazing ideas of a land not born in history until some 500 or more years later. The book starts out in Ancient Egypt with Aknaten, as he declares the first democrat. Hall then states that the Greeks did at one time sail to America and got as far as the Great Lakes. The book also deals largely with prophecies. That of Atlantis, Nastradamus, Lord Bacon, Plato, and other more ‘silent’ prophets. The one particular aspect of this book that I really enjoyed is that Manly Hall really appreciates books and knowledge. He values them to the utmost degree (see his Great Books on Religion and Esoteric Philosophy). In the course of this literature he states that its not the facts that matter, but rather there is another point of view of history that we may not be aware of. This is just another one and to take it as gosepel truth is to miss the point entirely. Its to keep our imagination rolling and our eyes open that we can see the [personal] utopia. He goes on saying that America is the lost Utopia, or the never found utopia that so many people have been searching for or speculating in theory. Among the famous people that founded this country of whom all of which were involved in Freemasonry or other Secret Occult Societies. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and perhaps even Christopher Columbus.

Table of Contents

1. THE ORIGIN OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
2. THE WORLD’S FIRST DEMOCRAT
3 WESTWARD OCEAN TRAVEL TO THE EARTHLY PARADISE
4 THE FIRST ELECTION OF LAW-MAKERS
5 THE ANCIENT LEAGUE OF NATIONS
6 A ROMAN PROJECT TO GIVE RULERSHIP TO THE WISE
7 THE DEMOCRATIC TRADITION PRESERVED BY SECRET SOCIETIES
8 A NEW IDENTITY FOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
9 THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS
10 THE DESIGN OF UTOPIAS
11 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE SECRET SOCIETY
12 WESTERN CULTURE A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE COLUMBUS
13 BACON’S SECRET SOCIETY IS SET UP IN AMERICA
14 A PROPHECY WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF WASHINGTON’S BIRTH
15 THE UNKNOWN MAN WHO DESIGNED OUR FLAG
16 THOMAS PAINE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN
17 THE UNKNOWN WHO SWAYED THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
18 THE SYMBOLS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S.
19 THE PROPHETIC DREAM OF GENERAL MC CLELLAN
20 THE END OF THE QUEST