Manly P. Hall's "Mysticism of Colonial
America" is relatively uninteresting. It contains two short lectures by
Hall, a well-known American esotericist. One is titled "The Society of the
Mustard Seed", and deals with Johannes Kelpius, a German Pietist and
mystic who founded a mystical-eschatological community in Pennsylvania during
the 17th century. Some of the statements in the article don't correspond to
what I've read elsewhere about Kelpius, who I presume was a somewhat reclusive
and mysterious character. The other article, "Transcendentalists of
Alexandria, Athens and Boston" is a short exegesis of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's spiritual ideas. Vaguely interesting and reassuring, but hardly an
in-depth study. Not sure how to rate this product. Two stars? Two-and-a-half?
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