Science of Mindby Ernest Holmes, founder of the philosophy that is carried on today by the Centers for Spiritual Living.They made their way into all types of get-rich-quick schemes, cults, pop-culture, metaphysics and the occult: William Walker Atkinson interpreted the paradigm and ideas he found in the ancient Corpus Hermeticum through the lens of what the philosophers at the turn of the 20th Century called “New Thought.” New Thought was heavily influenced by the religion of spiritualism, and the burgeoning sciences of Psychology, and “New Physics.” Atkinson boiled it all down and codified Seven Hermetic Principles, which shifted the Hermetic focus to align easily within their modern world view of spirituality at the time.Ītkinson’s Seven Hermetic principles became ubiquitous across the New Age Movement over the next 100 years. At the turn of the 20th Century, everything ancient was perceived by the masses to be of greater value and credibility than anything modern. It is possible that Atkinson’s choice to publish anonymously, and with such mystery, was a bid for greater acceptance of his ideas.
Then, in a 1917 edition of the work in French, the translator’s introduction credits Atkinson as the original author. Dumont, and Three Initiates.įour years after the original publication, Atkinson claimed to be the sole author in a 1912 entry in Who’s Who In America. He also published under several pseudonyms, such as Yogi Ramacharaka, Magus Incognito, Theron Q.
Atkinson published as many as 100 books during the last 30 years of his life, under his own name. He was a lawyer, a renowned occultist, and publisher through his Yogi Publication Society in Chicago. It is now irrefutably understood to have been authored alone by William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932).Ītkinson was a prolific and influential voice within the New Thought Movement in the early 20 th Century. The Kybalion: A Hermetic Philosophy, claimed it was written anonymously by “Three Initiates,” with intimations that it was an ancient text passed down through some secret tradition. Witchcraft books will often make at least a passing mention of Hermes Trismegistus as the source of The Seven Hermetic Principles however, this is not the whole story.
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