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William Walker Atkinson is the best occultist there is. He tells us the actual principles that underly occult workings and gives it to us simple. With that knowledge everything can be accomplished.

Have you even read The Kybalion? It's obviously heavily influenced by Naturalist philosophy and it even references Herbert Spencer. It's not "spiritualist" or "new age".

I just ordered a new version of it because I wanted something more than the basic Mead translation I have. What I bought was Corpus Hermeticum: The Power & Wisdom of God Paperback by Marsilio Ficino (Author), Maxwell Lewis Latham (Translator), released February 28, 2020.

The book description reads:

"This book is a translation of the sacred writings of Hermes Trismegistus. Translated from Ficino’s Latin manuscript it contains the 'Pimander', the 'Asclepius' dialogue, an extensive commentary by Ludovico Lazzarelli and Ficino’s introduction translated into English. It also has extensive scholarly footnotes which illuminate and elucidate many philosophical and mythological details relating to the text. This new translation of the 'Corpus Hermeticum' brings to light ancient hermetic wisdom in a spirit perhaps not last seen since the Renaissance."

>>134625

>" It also has extensive scholarly footnotes which illuminate and elucidate many philosophical and mythological details"

lol

>>134625

Narrate it and post your audiobook.

>>134617

For a second there I thought you were an obvious troll.

But now I got the feeling you're not.

Look, what you are experiencing is called mental masturbation. You can be excused from falling for Atkinson's own egolatry at first, but keep at it and you'll become a clueless poser.

The Kybalion is a derivative work. A rewording of another book so it was more palatable to the public of the time. He was basically the equivalent to today's new age youtubers, which I often find informative and useful, don't get me wrong.

>In 1884, Anna Kingsford, an Englishwoman who founded an organisation called the Hermetic Society, published a book entitled The Virgin of the World of Hermes Trismegistus, which presents an adaptation of the Hermetic texts. As Greer points out, the introduction to this book bears a strong similarity to many of the ideas in The Kybalion. And in fact the introduction to The Virgin of the World, written by Kingsford’s associate Edward Maitland, does contain a number of things that are echoed in The Kybalion.

https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-mysterious-kybalion

This book, The Virgin of the World, is what the Kybalion pretends to be and where it takes most of it's rehashed info from: https://sacred-texts.com/eso/vow/index.htm

>>134614

>reminder that the Hermetic literature is the Corpus Hermetica and the Divine Pyromander, not some 20th century new age spiritualist bullshit like the Kybalion.

https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/egyptian/hermetica/index.html (links to chapters in both sides of the page)

All words, being dual, are lies that act as metaphor for Truth. Truth is infinite and thus is impossible to put into finite words. It is foolish to get upset over the use of one metaphor over another, they are all lies. It is up to the practitioner to use them correctly to reach the Truth.

>>134632

oh my god thank you finally ive been wondering where the real source came from and what exactly is so hermetic about the godmaned Kybalion

though this still leaves an etymological study to be desired

>>134614

And if you were to believe something that makes a dog poop or your piss gold in the street and it is truly divine, you can not get in deep enough to find it. And thus there is a double standard: The domain of the Ego is pure philosophy, while the realm of reality is a shared hallucination produced by the brain. This is the definition of the Very Lie, the common denominator between all religions, thus The God That Fights Monsters.