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| Author | William Walker Atkinson (likely) |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Hermeticism / Occultism |
| Publisher | Yogi Publication Society |
Publication date | 1908 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Text | The Kybalion at Wikisource |
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)[1] 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.[2] A modern Hermetic tract, it has been widely influential in New Age circles since the twentieth century.[3]
- ^ On the identification of the author of the Kybalion as William W. Atkinson, see Deslippe 2011, pp. 18–19; Chapel 2013; Smoley 2018, pp. ix–xxv; Horowitz 2019, p. 195.
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