Essays on Philosophy and Flowers

A Little Essay on Beauty

A Little Essay On Beauty by Manly P. Hall from the November 1930 issue of The All Seeing EyeBeauty is an elusive power, whose presence is an invisible asset, whose absence leaves a supreme need unfulfilled. Beauty has been defined as symmetry or the harmony of form. It is a proper adjustment of parts, a reasonable synthesis of members, an order pleasing because it is proper.Beauty is not identical with an object nor with the ...

Your Life as a Garden

Your Life as a garden An excerpt from the book Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization by Manly P. HallThe emperor of an Eastern country built a palace which he called the House of the Singing Floors. When the palace was finished he desired that gardens be planted about it so that the palace itself should stand in the midst of an earthly paradise. The emperor sent for the wisest and most skilled of his gardeners ...

The Flower Dragon

Tropaeolum specious · Flame Nasturtium Flower Dragon On the essence of strength and fiery courage I found this mystical little dragon at the Denver Botanical Garden on September 14, 2021. While the common name of this flower is flame flower or flame nasturtium, I called it the Flower Dragon because its appearance and essence gave rise to the image of a Chinese mythological dragon. When I first saw this flower, I sensed the essence of ...