The Kybalion
"The Kybalion. Hermetic Philosophy" is a book with a very interesting editorial history. The print version in English language was written by William Walker Atkinson and published in 1908 through his own Yogi Publication Society of Chicago. The original author of the text and the date of its first appearance, however, are shrouded in mystery. "The Kybalion" was allegedly written by a man called Hermes Trismegistus or a group of men called "The Three Initiates" who lived in the 3rd century BCE.
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