The Ways of the Lonely Ones

About this book

Solitude can be a punishment or a calling. Manly P. Hall's Ways of the Lonely Ones approaches the solitary seeker as someone drawn away from the crowd by questions that cannot easily be shared.

Hall writes within an esoteric tradition that often associates loneliness with inner development and initiation. The volume considers the difficulties of following such a path, with the author's familiar interest in the wisdom supposedly preserved by mystics and philosophers. Its appeal lies in the attention paid to an ordinary human feeling, and in the larger significance Hall gives to the experience of being apart.