The Kybalion

The Kybalion
Author	William Walker Atkinson (likely)
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Hermeticism / Occultism
Publisher	Yogi Publication Society
Publication date	1908
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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^ See Horowitz 2019, pp. 193–194.

[1] 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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[3] See Horowitz 2019, pp. 193–194.

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