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The Kybalion

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authors, especially those of the New Thought movement to which Atkinson belonged. A modern Hermetic tract, it has been widely influential in
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Nicholas E. Chapel notes that while several aspects such as the philosophical mentalism, the concept of "
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Brînzeu, Pia (2011). "Hidden Esotericism: Postmodern Witches and the Cauldron of Intertextuality".
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A central concept in the book is that there are "seven Hermetic principles, upon which the entire
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movement to be representative of the broader historical tradition of Hermetic philosophy.
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Chapel also points out that there are a number of stark contrasts between the
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first principle was inspired by broadly similar notions in the ancient Greek
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The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
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focus on the practitioner's "mental transmutation" versus the traditional
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between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of being and life.
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is too bound up with early 20th-century ideas emanating from the
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is based". These are, as literally quoted from the book:
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anti-theological stance versus the heavy emphasis on
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Index

Kybalion

William Walker Atkinson
Hermeticism
Occultism
United States
The Kybalion
Wikisource
New Thought
William Walker Atkinson
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermetic texts
philosophical mentalism
as above, so below
occultist
New Age
a series
Hermeticism
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermetic writings
Liber Hermetis (astrological)
Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus
Corpus Hermeticum
Poimandres
Asclepius
Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Korē kosmou
Cyranides

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