#three initiates

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Very cool audio book with the actual book on screen! 

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Covers to The Three Initiates’ Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy—supposedly written by William Walker Atkinson, Paul Foster Case, & Elias Gewurz in 1908—based upon the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (various artists/designers, late 20th century to early 21st century).

(via Simon & Schuster, Mercado Libre, & Pinterest)

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Quotes from ‘The Kybalion’ Three Initiates Edition

This original post is susceptible to a revising of additional notes, and personal note tags. 

[*] xyz [***] - A personal notion of importance

{xyz} - Personal note tags

From Myself: I encourage anyone interested in the meshing of practicality and spirituality within the constructing of Universal Laws and ancient teachings. This book outlines the basics of Hermeticism, which is an ancient path to great knowledge of mutuality of the mind, spirit, and the Universe as a whole. Besides these personal notes, there is much more great wisdom and light within the full-text shedding on the elements of what we call mind, spirit, and matter. This book is not intended to offer doctrine, but an examination of Universal mechanisms.

In this choice of quotes, I have found personal significance. Once again, I hope they encourage the reader to extend their self towards the full insight of the book.

(Pg. 18) - “...the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale. The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest-just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless. And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. “

(Pg. 23) - {In regard to the Principle of Gender} “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.”

(Pg. 24) - “From astrology has grown modern astronomy; from alchemy has grown modern chemistry; from the mystic psychology has grown the modern psychology of the schools. But it must not be supposed that the ancients were ignorant of that which the modern schools suppose to be their exclusive and special property.”

(Pg. 40) - “...yet to all that is Finite, the Universe must be treated as Real, and life, and action, and thought, must be based upon thereupon, accordingly, although with an ever understanding of the Higher Truth.”

(Pg. 41) - “And if Man, owing to half-wisdom, acts and lives and thinks of the Universe as merely a dream (akin to his own finite dreams) then indeed does it so become for him, and like a sleep-walker he stumbles ever around and around in a circle, making no progress, and being forced into an awakening at last by his falling bruised and bleeding over the Natural Laws which he ignored. [*] Keep your mind ever on the Star, but let your eyes watch over your footsteps, lest you fall into the mire by reason of your upward gaze.” [***]

(Pg. 44) - [*] We commit a folly when we attempt to deny the existence of Matter in the relative aspect. We may deny its mastery over us-and rightly so-but we should not attempt to ignore it in its relative aspect, at least so long as we dwell upon its plane.” [***]

(Pg. 45) - [*] “...even the highest Master, and the highest Being, must bow to the Law, and be as Nothing in the eye of THE ALL.” [***]

(Pg. 47) - [*] “Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions, and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower-escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher.” [***] [*] “Transmutation, not presumptuous denial, is the weapon of the Master.” [***]

(Pg. 49) - [*] “To take a modern example, let us say that Othello, Iago, Hamlet, Lear, Richard III, existed merely in the mind of Shakespeare, at the time of their conception or creation. And yet, Shakespeare also existed within each of these characters, giving them their vitality, spirit, and action. Whose is the ‘spirit’ of the characters that we know as Micawber, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep-is it Dickens, or have each of these characters a personal spirit, independent of their creator? {An analogy to the principle, explained in the book, of THE ALL being in all} The Law of Paradox explains that both propositions are true, viewed from the proper viewpoints. Micawber may be said to be Dickens, yet Dickens is not identical with Micawber. Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: “The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me-and yet I am not HE!” How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half-wise, who fill the air with their raucous cries of: “I am God!”

(Pg. 65) - [*] “The striving for selfish power on the Spiritual Planes inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back as far as it had previously risen.” [***]

(Pg. 75) - [*] “The tendency of Nature is in the direction of the dominant activity of the Positive pole.” 

(Pg. 81) - [*] “But the Hermetists carry it still further. They teach that a man’s mental states are subject to the same Law. {The Principle of Rhythm: The Law of Compensation} The man who enjoys keenly, is subject to keen suffering; while he who feels but little plain is capable of feeling but little joy. The pig suffers but little mentally, and enjoys but little-he is compensated. And on the other hand, there are other animals who enjoy keenly, but whose nervous organism and temperament cause them to suffer exquisite degrees of pain and so it is with Man. There are temperaments which permit of but low degrees of enjoyment, and equally low degrees of suffering; while there are others which permit the most intense enjoyment, but also the most intense suffering. The rule is that the capacity for pain and pleasure, in each individual, are balanced. The Law of Compensation is in full operation here.” [***]

(Pg. 82) - [*] “The Law of Compensation plays an important part in the lives of men and women. It will be noticed that one generally “pays the price” of anything he possesses or lacks. If he has one thing, he lacks another-the balance is struck. No one can ‘keep his penny and have the bit of cake’ at the same time. Everything has its pleasant and unpleasant sides. The things that one gains are always paid for by the thing that one loses. The rich possess much that the poor lack, while the poor often possess things that are beyond the reach of the rich. The millionaire may have the inclination towards feasting, and the wealth wherewith to secure all the dainties and luxuries of the table, while he lacks the appetite to enjoy the same; he envies the appetite and digestion of the laborer who lacks the wealth and inclinations of the millionaire, and who gets more pleasure from his plain food than the millionaire could obtain even if his appetite were not jaded, nor his digestion ruined, for the wants, habits, an inclinations differ. And so it is through life. The Law of Compensation is ever in operation, striving to balance and counter-balance, and always succeeding though time, even though several lives may be required for the return swing of the Pendulum of Rhythm.” [***]

(Pg. 89) - [*] “The great Seventh Hermetic Principle-the Principle of Gender-embodies the truth that there is Gender manifested in everything-that the Masculine and Feminine principles are ever present and active in all phases of phenomena, on each and every plane of life. At this point we think it well to call your attention to that fact that Gender, in its Hermetic sense, and Sex in the ordinarily accepted use of the term, are not the same. The word “Gender” is derived from the Latin root meaning “to beget; to procreate; to generate; to create; to produce.”

(Pg. 90) - [*] “The so-called Negative pole of the battery is really the pole in and by which the generation or production of new forms and energies is manifested. There is nothing ‘negative’ {the societal impression of positivity and negativity} about it. The best scientific authorities now use the word ‘Cathode’ in place of ‘Negative,’ the word Cathode coming from the Greek root meaning ‘descent: the path of generation, etc.” From the Cathode pole emerge the swarm of electrons or corpuscles; from the same pole emerge those wonderful ‘rays’ which have revolutionized scientific concepts during the past decade.”

(Pg. 95-96) - “While at first there seems to be only an ‘I’ existing, a more careful and closer examination reveals the fact that there exists an ‘I’ and a ‘Me’. These mental twins differ in their characteristic and nature, and an examination of their nature and phenomena arising from the same will throw much light upon many of the problems of mental influence. 

Let us begin with a consideration of the Me, which is usually mistaken for the I by the student until he presses the inquiry a little further back into the recesses of consciousness. A man thinks of his Self (in its aspect of Me) as being composed of certain feelings, tastes, likes, dislikes, habits, peculiar ties, characteristics, etc., all of which go to make up his personality, or the ‘Self’ known to himself and others. He knows that these emotions and feelings change; are born and die away; are subject to the Principle of Rhythm, and the Principle of Polarity, which take him from one extreme of feeling to another. He also thinks of the ‘Me’ as being certain knowledge gathered together in his mind, and thus forming a part of himself. This is the ‘Me‘ of a man.

...The ‘Me’ of many men may be said to consist largely of their consciousness of the body and their physical appetites, etc. Their consciousness being largely bound up with their bodily nature, they practically ‘live there.’ Some men go even so as far as to regard their personal apparel as a part of their ‘Me’ and actually seem to consider a part of themselves {The ‘I’ and ‘Me’ simaltaneously}. A writer has humorously said that ‘men consist of three parts-soul, body, and clothes.’ These ‘clothes conscious’ people would lose their personality if divested of their clothing by savages upon the occasion of a shipwreck. But even many who are not so closely bound up with the idea of personal raiment stick closely to the consciousness of their bodies being their ‘Me’. They cannot conceive of a Self independent from the body. Their mind seems to them to be practically ‘a something belonging to’ their body-which in many cases it is indeed.

[*] But as man rises in the scale of consciousness he is able to disentangle his ‘Me’ from his idea of body, and is able to think of his body as ‘belonging to’ the mental part of him. [***]

(Pg.98) - “He is able to rest in its consciousness at will. He finds there not a consciousness of an ability to generate and actively create, in the sense of the gradual process attendant upon mental operations, but rather a sense and consciousness of an ability to project an energy from the ‘I’ to the ‘Me’-a process of ‘willing’ that the mental creation begin and proceed.”

(Pg. 98) - “The principle of Mental Gender gives the truth underlying the whole field of phenomena of mental influence, etc.”

(Pg. 103) - [*] “Knowledge without Use and Expression is a vain thing.” [***]

(Pg. 105) - “The mastery of Polarization is the mastery of the fundamental principles of Mental Transmutation or Mental Alchemy...”

(Pg. 105) - “The principle is true, but the results obtained depend upon the persistent patience and practice of the student.”

From Myself: I want to extend the wisdom of this book and bring mutuality of these Hermetic understandings with my own personal and developing mode of logic of CONCEPTUAL ASSOCIATION, which encompasses many of the dual aspects of the Hermetic Principles. 

Another book that I have read in the recent past is, ‘Psychotherapy & Existentialism’ by Viktor Frankl; a book of Logotherapy. This LINK will lead you to another post of quotes and personal notes. I also encourage readers to extend their knowledge to this writing. 

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You can never learn enough about the Kybalion. I love how Joseph Rodrigues presents this book. 

If you’re into everything about the principles, watch this video.

Warning: It’s a tad long. lol

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“And Death is not real, even in the Relative sense — it is but Birth to a new life — and You shall go on, and on, and on, to higher and still higher planes of life, for aeons upon aeons of time. The Universe is your home, and you shall explore its farthest recesses before the end of Time. You are dwelling in the Infinite Mind of THE ALL, and your possibilities and opportunities are infinite, both in time and Space. And at the end of the Grand Cycle of Aeons, when THE ALL shall draw back into itself all of its creations — you will go gladly, for you will then be able to know the Whole Truth.”

— Three Initiates - The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.

The Kybalion