The Kybalion - Couverture souple

Initiates, Three

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1512355577 ISBN 13 : 9781512355574

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

“The Kybalion”, based upon ancient Hermetism, was first published in 1908 by the “Yogi Publication Society”, under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". The book explains the “Mental Transmutation” (also described as Mental Alchemy, the Art of Mental Chemistry, and the Art of Polarization) what refers to the art of changing and transforming one's own mental states and conditions. The book devotes a chapter to each of its seven "Principles", or axioms: 1. The Principle of Mentalism embodies the idea that "All is Mind." 2. The Principle of Correspondence: there is always a correspondence between the laws of phenomena of the various "planes" of being and life: “As above, so below; as below, so above”. 3. The Principle of Vibration: motion is manifest in everything in the Universe, nothing rests, and everything moves, vibrates, and circles. This principle explains that the differences between manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, are the result of only different "vibrations”. 4. The Principle of Polarity: everything is dual, everything has two poles, and everything has its opposite. 5. The Principle of Rhythm: in everything there is manifested a measured motion, there is rhythm between every pair of opposites, or poles, and enables transition from one pole to the other. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect explains that there is a cause for every effect, and an effect for every cause. 7. The Principle of Gender: gender is manifested in everything. "The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding"—The Kybalion.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

The Kybalion was anonymously printed in 1908 by “The Three Initiates”. It is believed by many that The Kybalion was authored by William Walker Atkinson, either alone or with others. Atkinson was known to use many pseudonyms, and to self-publish his works. He was also the owner of the "Yogi Publication Society of Chicago", the original publisher of The Kybalion. Also suggestive is the fact that, among his earliest published pseudonymous and anonymous works may have been a series entitled The Arcane Teachings, which bears many superficial similarities to The Kybalion — The Kybalion explores seven "Hermetic Principles" while The Arcane Teachings examines seven "Arcane Laws", The Kybalion claims to be an elucidation of an ancient, unpublished Hermetic text of the same name, while The Arcane Teachings claims to reveal the wisdom of an ancient, unpublished scroll of occult aphorisms, and both books describe three "Great Planes" of reality which are further subdivided into seven lesser planes. Both books also describe three of the lesser planes as "astral black keys" analogous to the black keys on a piano, and inhabited by elemental spirits. And, both books describe the process of "Mental Alchemy" in great detail, and in nearly complete agreement with each other. There are other similarities, and The Arcane Teachings might have been Atkinson's "first draft" of material which later became The Kybalion. A common theory is that Atkinson co-wrote the book with Paul Foster Case and Michael Whitty. This theory is often held by members of Builders of the Adytum, the Mystery School later founded by Case, though the group doesn't publicly make this claim itself. In fact, this story appears to have originated with the Fraternity of Hidden Light. Other names speculatively mentioned as co-authors of The Kybalion include Harriet Case (Paul Foster Case's wife at the time), Ann Davies (who succeeded Paul Foster Case as head of the B.O.T.A.), Mabel Collins (a prominent Theosophical writer), Claude Bragdon (an architect, Theosophist, and writer on "mystic geometry"), and Claude Alexander (a well-known stage magician, mentalist, proponent of crystal gazing, and New Thought author). However, given Atkinson's prolific output under almost a dozen pseudonyms, it is debatable whether he would have needed or sought a co-author for the book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1512355577
• ISBN 13: 9781512355574
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
• Éditeur: Longa Alba
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