It's 1:40 am.  I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep so I thought I would get up and read a bit.  This is what I'm currently reading.  It's just under 700 pages in length.  The first edition was written in 1928 by Manly P. Hall, an ordained preacher for the Church of the People.  Hall dedicated the book to "the proposition that concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto among a small band of initiated minds."

 

One writer described the book as "a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man." 

 

It's been quite interesting so far.  Anybody want to borrow it when I'm done???