Three Initiates 
The Kybalion [EPUB ebook] 
A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

The Kybalion is a book originally published in 1908 by ’
Three Initiates ’ (often identified as the New Thought pioneer
William Walker Atkinson , 1862–1932) that purports to convey the teachings of
Hermes Trismegistus . While it shares with ancient and medieval Hermetic texts a number of traits such as philosophical mentalism, the concept of ’as above, so below’, and the idea that everything consists of gendered polar opposites, as a whole it is more indebted to the ideas of modern occultist authors, especially those of the New Thought movement to which Atkinson belonged. A modern Hermetic tract, it has been widely influential in New Age circles since the twentieth century.