The Kybalion

Great book.

Yeah one of the best

The most important teaching of this book is Pantheism.

That is that separation is illusion.

And thus that when you hate others, you hate yourself.

Funny the video seems to be silent about the chapters called "the All" and "the Divine Paradox" which are IMO the most important from the book.

Too hot to touch?

What do you think, OP?

Did you read the book? Or did you just watch the summary on YouTube?

The All!

This guy gets it.

Funny a 21 minutes long video about the Kybalion doesn't feel the need to explore that topic.

great book, been one of my best friends for over 50 years.

Put all the concept together and you get a real view of how it all works.

The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece is a book originally published in 1908 by "Three Initiates" often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson.
Not ancient wisdom at all but 1900s spiritualism

It is a modern rewriting of older hermetic teachings like what is found in the Emerald Tablets.

Anyway anyone who reads it can see how it contains simple and basic truths (explained through a 1900 prism). Modern science doesn't invalidate these older teachings. It's just going into more details, putting new names on thing.

Most of those things were also taught in ancient myths from all cultures.

Ohhh, nothing about the "in drawing" then...

Well, the libtards got that right

I know The Kybalion is the book of the day, but… Isn’t it basically common sense?

What’s the revelatory enlightenment people pretend to have garnered from it?

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I think you're completely missing the point on that one

Thank you for the interesting video Yes, the clip misses parts of the book, just checked the site, but is great regardless.

Open your mind to new insights for yourself, flag-boy.

I enjoyed the video for what it was

The parts left out is why you read the book

Do you know many philosophies claiming everything is interconnected, nothing is separate, and your neighbor who you hate is just another incarnation of your higher self?

Can kybolian advocates suggest a better source for learning about it? Synopsis "The All". How is it different from Eastern religions?

This was fascinating:

The Principle of Gender "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."--The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything--the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes. On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same. No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle. If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life. We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender. Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature's principles. If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them--Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base.


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Within the context, especially, of the time in which we live, where it seems people are indeed trying to diminish this element of the Hermetic teaching.

Why is it crucial now?