Magic Monday
Feb. 16th, 2020 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
It's a little shy of midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic book of Western occultism is The Kybalion, the most enduring of the many works that blended occultism with New Thought. (New Thought? That's the classic American movement of self-help through mind training that emerged after the Civil War as people started paying attention to the way that thinking shapes experience and emotions affect health.) It's the original source of the Seven Hermetic Principles -- the Principles of Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender -- and of many other core concepts of 20th century American occultism. According to the cover, The Kybalion was written by "Three Initiates;" in fact, it was written by one, the redoubtable William Walker Atkinson, one of the most influential American occultists of his time. If Hermes can be Thrice Great, no doubt Atkinson can be Thrice Initiate...
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Date: 2020-02-17 11:00 pm (UTC)