{"id":196637,"date":"2010-01-18T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"1712 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:08:23","slug":"philosophical-research-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/196637","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Research Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\">California<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\/unique-collections\">Unique Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LA has long been home to mystics, far-out spirituals, and occult practices. <\/p>\n<p>The city boasts an Alchemy Lab and a &#8220;Magickal Marketplace.&#8221; The Philosophical Research Society has been at the center of the occult in LA since its inception in 1934. Founded by Manly P. Hall, the PRS explores &#8220;wisdom traditions&#8221; ranging from religion to science to more esoteric philosophies. Even for those of us who aren&#8217;t trying to tap into the spirit world, the library of the Philosophical Research Society provides a wealth of information on obscure, rare religions and philosophies.<\/p>\n<p>The library has some very notable titles: a book on divination once owned by Napoleon from 1801, a rare book about theosophy, and a book on mesmerism from 1852. According to lore, the books about Satan are kept under a Buddha statue, to balance the energies. They even, according to some, have books about black magic. These books are not open to the public with the rest of their collection; one must obtain special permission from the librarians to explore them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the library is non-circulating, as it is solely a research facility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/manly-p-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"209\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, California | Unique Collections LA has long been home to mystics, far-out spirituals, and occult practices. The city boasts an Alchemy Lab and a &#8220;Magickal Marketplace.&#8221; The Philosophical Research Society has been at the center of the occult in LA since its inception in 1934. Founded by Manly P. Hall, the PRS explores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}