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"The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt & Greece" (1908) ☿️

The Kybalion (full title: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece ) is a book originally published in 1908 by "Three Initiates" (often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson , 1862–1932) that purports to convey the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus . While it shares with ancient and medieval Hermetic texts a number of traits such as philosophical mentalism , the concept of ' as above, so below ', and the idea that everything consists of gendered polar opposites, as a whole it is more indebted to the ideas of modern occultist authors, especially those of the New Thought movement to which Atkinson belonged. A modern Hermetic tract, it has been widely influential in New Age circles since the twentieth century. Seven Hermetic principles: A central concept in the book is that there are "seven Hermetic principles, upon which the entire Hermetic philosophy is based". These are, as literally quoted from the book: 1. The principle of mentalism "The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental." 2. The principle of correspondence "As above, so below; as below, so above.” [...] This principle embodies the truth that there is always a correspon

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