Lost in America

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?