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Re: The Kybalion
Sun, May 30, 2004 - 6:47 PMI've read it.
It's...Interesting. A good primer.
Not really fair to ask for our thoughts, and keep your own. :-) -
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Re: The Kybalion
Sun, May 30, 2004 - 10:30 PMGood Point. Personally I loved it. It said in 223 pages what most books on occult philosophy can barely get out in 3 times as many. I'have studied qabbalah, taoism, magick, and other modalities for a long time now, and this book showed me a common link between them all. Very easy to read, straightforward, with a minnimum of dogma.
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Re: The Kybalion
Mon, May 31, 2004 - 5:38 AMAs an relatively inexperienced student of the occult I find it necessary to reflect on the Kybalion often to learn what it has to teach me. Recently I learned that, for me, it contains a rather stern warning. The phrase "As Above, So Below" can be interpreted to mean; Life is cyclic in nature, if you do not tend to it, it can become a vicious cycle.
I have alwys professed the belief that "Magic" was merely a series of psychological tricks that the initiated played on the uninitiated. After learning the lesson above I have been working much harder at getting my self under control. I have been amazed at the results. I have seen a decrease in my headaches, I am sleeping better, and my vision has improved. Most interesting is the fact that I have gotten these results by making changes where the problem isn't. By this I mean that I have achieved phtsical results by making mental changes, and mental results by making physical changes. If you had told me even as recently as a month ago that this was possible I would have laughed at you.
So it seems I have learned the first lesson of the Kybalion; change is possible. I look forward to learning the next lesson. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Mon, May 31, 2004 - 10:17 AMFor me, a huge lesson was the supreme effort of will that it takes to polarize your view on something to the opposite, and the act of gaining perspective in order to jump to a higher vibrational rate in order to avoid the cyclical downswing.
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Re: The Kybalion
Tue, June 1, 2004 - 5:59 AMThe Kybalion was my first experience with Hermetic philosophy. In retrospect, it was a good starting place. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Thu, June 3, 2004 - 9:03 PMIt reminds me of the passage in "the alchemist" when the boy tells the englishman what he learned from all of the books he had lugged into the dessert. "above all" he said " i learned that these things are so simple that they could be written on the surface of an emerald". -
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Re: The Kybalion
Fri, June 4, 2004 - 5:05 PMIf he learned that then the money he spent on the books, and the effort he invested in carting them around was worth it. Plus, he has something to sell to finance his real journey.
When I first read the Kybalion I didn't understand a word of it. I found it to be like a puzzle. I wasn't until I began to put some other puzzles together that I was able to understand how the pieces of the Kybalion puzzles went together. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Fri, June 4, 2004 - 5:31 PMYeah, I took to the Kybalion right away, but I think it was because I had already explored much of what they were talking about. If I would have read it 2 years ago, I wouldn't have got it. So you think books, like people, come into your life at just the proper time? It seems that way to me--the universe is in a conspiracy for my (and your) benefit. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Fri, June 18, 2004 - 10:28 AMWhen the student is ready, the Teacher appears. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Fri, June 18, 2004 - 11:40 AMJust don't expect your "teacher" to always be human. -
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Re: The Kybalion
Fri, June 18, 2004 - 12:16 PMOf course not... now where did I put that univeral expander? ;)
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