The Kybalion Author: The Three Initiates | Language: English | ISBN:
B00D4AHXSK | Format: EPUB
The Kybalion Description
The Kybalion is a classic Hermetic text. The concise book summarizes the mean teachings of Hermeticism. A table of contents is included.
- File Size: 266 KB
- Print Length: 227 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0766100804
- Publisher: Waxkeep Publishing (May 28, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D4AHXSK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The Kybalion, originally published in 1912, is a short volume (223 pages, 7.5" x 5" hardcover) that presents, with commentary, the basic Hermetic principles. The author(s) of the book are anonymous.
Chapter 1 provides background on Hermetic philosophy, and describes the overall purpose of this book: "In the early days, there was a compilation of certain Basic Hermetic Doctrines, passed on from teacher to student, which was known as 'THE KYBALION,' the exact significance and meaning of the term having been lost for several centuries. This teaching, however, is known to many to whom it has descended, from mouth to ear, throughout the centuries. Its precepts have never been written down, nor printed, as far as we know. It was merely a collection of maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were non-understandable to outsiders, but which were readily understood by students, after the axioms, maxims, and precepts had been explained and exemplified by the Hermetic Initiates to their Neophytes ... We herein give you many of the maxims, axioms and precepts of THE KYBALION, accompanied by explanations and illustrations which we deem likely to render the teachings more easily comprehended by the modern student, particularly as the original text is purposely veiled in obscure terms." (Note: as is common in many books of this era, the author(s) make extensive use of what today would be considered non-standard capitalization and punctuation.)
The Hermetic principles, familiar to any who have done basic readings in western esoteric philosophy, are outlined and then examined in depth.
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