The Kybalion

Three Initiates · 1908

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About the book

Seven principles that claim to run everything from a passing mood to the tides, set down by three students of Hermes who would not give their names. It is the shortest way into hermetic thinking, and the door almost every modern occultist came through first.

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Part 1 · Behind the Three Initiates. The first six slides, free.

Behind the Three Initiates

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The 1908 title page names no ordinary author. It presents The Kybalion as the work of “Three Initiates” and describes it as a study of the Hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece.

Inside the course

12 parts

Who the Three Initiates were, and why they stayed anonymousFree above
Mentalism: the universe as something being thought
As above, so below — correspondence as a working tool
Vibration, and why nothing in this book ever sits still
Polarity: heat and cold as one thing measured twice
Rhythm, and the swing you can learn not to ride
Cause and effect, and what the word «chance» is hiding
Gender as a principle rather than a body
Mental transmutation: changing a state instead of arguing with it
THE ALL, and the paradox at the centre of the book
The planes of correspondence, from matter up to mind
The hermetic axioms, and what to do with them on Monday

Questions

Is The Kybalion free to read in Astra Trainer?

Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.

What is the short course?

12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.

Where do I get the app?

Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Kybalion is waiting in the app’s library.