The first question Mr. Claude Bragdon, American mystic, asked Mr. Hall immediately after their first meeting was:
"Mr. Hall, how do you know so much more about the mathematics of Pythagoras than even the authorities on the subject?"
Standing beside both these dear American friends of mine, I was wondering with trepidation in my heart what reply Mr. Hall would make.
"Mr. Bragdon," answered Mr. Hall quickly, unhesitatingly, and with a simultaneous flash of smile in his eyes and on his lips, "you are an occult philosopher. You know that it is easier to know things than to know how one knows those things."
In silence Claude Bragdon, the famous authority in the Fourth Dimension, looked at the radiant face, and into the fathomless eyes of Manly P. Hall; and in silence the four eyes spoke in the solemn language of the soul.
Roy, Basanta Koomar, "America's Timeless Philosopher." Horizon (November-December 1941) Vol. 1, No. 4: p. 15