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provided by Obadiah Harris, president of PRS, and Hall’s longtime friend Colonel Clarke Johnston. Hall’s sermon on crime is from “Buddha Quoted on Crime,” Los Angeles Times, 11/1/23. For the conversion of Hall’s Secret Teachings into a new edition, see “Bringing the Secret Teachings into the 21st Century” by Mitch Horowitz, at www.LapisMagazine.org. Articles about the interests of Marie Bauer Hall appeared in the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch: “New Age Christian Mystic Sure Group Will Unearth Bacon Chest,” 8/30/92; “Pair Seeking Vault Fined for Trespassing,” 9/25/92; and “Mystics Seek New Dig; Say Church Site Holds Secret Keys to Peace,” 3/19/03. For Hall’s participation in Black Friday, see The Lima News (Ohio), 6/27/40. Bob Pool of the Los Angeles Times provided useful accounts of PRS’s legal issues in “Search for Peace Leads to Court Brawl Estate,” 5/3/93, and “A Materialistic Fate for a Philosophical Legacy,” 12/23/94. Other Los Angeles Times articles include: “Research Center Pursues Ideas Most Won’t Consider” by Alan Citron, 10/31/82; “ ‘Last Western Mystic’ Thrives in Los Feliz” by Santiago O’Donnell, 7/6/89; and Hall’s obituary by Louis Sahagun, 9/3/90. The most meticulously detailed account of Hall’s death, as well as much other material elucidating Hall’s life, appears in Louis Sahagun’s well-researched biography, Master of the Mysteries (Process Media, 2008). Also useful on the controversies around Hall’s death is Stephan A. Hoeller’s 2003 interview in Paranoia magazine, conducted by Robert Guffey. The quote about the unduly influential Fritz appeared in Cliff Johnson’s 1/10/95 letter in the Los Angeles Times. Irving Howe is quoted from The Portable Kipling (Penguin, 1982). Hall’s encounter with Bragdon appeared in “America’s Timeless Philosopher” by Basanta Koomar Roy from Wynn’s Astrology Magazine, as reprinted in the Nov.–Dec. 1941 edition of Horizon. For an example of recent scholarship verifying the esoteric accounts of Delphi, see “For Delphic Oracle, Fumes and Vision” by William J. Broad, The New York Times, 3/19/02.

Chapter Eight: New Deal of the Ages

Accounts of Truman Capote’s appearance on The Tonight Show and the reaction to it appeared in Time magazine: “The Assassination According to Capote,” 5/10/68; “Ray’s Odd Odyssey,” 6/21/68; and “Cult of the Occult,” 7/19/68. No taping of the live appearance has been found to exist. The New York Times reported Sirhan’s reading material in “Suspect Requests Theosophic Works and Newspapers,” 6/7/68. The Fresno Bee reported the John Birch controversy in “Fresnan Backs Author of Book Sirhan Reads in Jail,” 6/28/68. I am indebted to Michael Gomes’s Theosophy in the Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1994) for first directing me to the incident.

Details on the life and career of Henry A. Wallace are from American Dreamer by John C. Culver and John Hyde (Norton, 2001), Henry A. Wallace: His Search for a New World Order by Graham J. White and John R. Maze (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl Ernest Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Basic Books, 2006), and “Who Was Henry A. Wallace?” by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Los Angeles Times, 3/12/00. Jim Farley’s criticisms of Wallace and Roosevelt’s responses are from Jim Farley’s Story (Whittlesey House, 1948). Useful information on the Liberal Catholic Church appears in These Also Believe by Charles S. Braden (Macmillan, 1949). Wallace’s interest in the Great Seal is explored in The Eagle and the Shield: A History of the Great Seal of the United States by Richard S. Patterson and Richardson Dougall (University Press of the Pacific, 1976). Roosevelt’s handwriting on the designs of the dollar bill can be seen in the pamphlet “The Great Seal of the United States,” published by the U.S. State Department in 2003. The quotes from Henry M. Morgenthau, Jr., are from “The Morgenthau Diaries,” part V, in Collier’s magazine of 10/25/47. In the same article, Morgenthau quotes Roosevelt asking, “What’s the matter with