The Kybalion - Hermetic Philosophy

[mabar]

The whole text can be intellectually appealing - specially if someone has not encountered these principles before.

That's what I thought when I read it like 8 years ago, it gave me another perspective from the benevolent/punisher God from the Catholic religion, precisely from the concepts of “All and The All”, I supposed it helped me to detach myself from the Catholic God. Your comments are quite interesting and I do agree on what you had observed. I supposed it would be something similar with Urania's book? I did not get too far with that one. Having had a glimpse here at the forum with it, I think it won't be necessarily.

 

[primechild]

Read it more than 10 times in Spanish & English.

[background] To me it's like being in xtian boarding school that teached me to be arrogant. (giving them credit for learning courage, before them I couldn't even tell fast food employee what I wanted even when I was paying for it)

Only good thing that came from Kybalion was god stopped being a personal deity there for my wish list, whinnying like a baby, and trying to control the outcomes by prayer or bartering. Knowing that the power to change world/me is within me, it had made me an even bigger snob than I was with the xtians.

Frustrated, now I will have to go back and re-examine all beliefs formed from reading that book.

My recommendation would be not to read it but if you read it than go back re-read it to re-analyze your beliefs.

Xtian - referring to those who claim to be Christians, yet exemplify none of the qualities of Christ.

yikes above sounds so snarky because it's still a sore spot but I'm hitting post button anyway hoping that my mistakes will help someone avoid that rock or hole in their path.

 

[Argonauta]

Well, however, many of us started in Christianity, as we know, is also peppered with lies and truths. And were those sparks of truth which put me on the track that something was wrong. I stretched, and I did search and search until under the rocks, where sometimes a scorpion can sting you, but the risk is worth it, because without knowledge we are lost

 

[Gawan]

Welcome to our forum Argonauta, actually, seeing as this is your first post on the forum, we would appreciate it if you would post a brief intro about yourself in the Newbies section, telling us how you found this forum, how long you've been reading it and/or the SOTT page, whether or not you've read any of Laura's books yet, etc.

 

[PhoenixToEmber]

This is one of the earliest "esoteric" books I read and it definitely had an impact on me. Like mabar and kokiri stated, it gave me a very different perspective of "God" - one closer to what we now call the "Cosmic Mind" here, and what The Kybalion calls the "All in ALL." I read this book when I was a senior in high school, and the ideas were quite new to me then, so they had that intellectual appeal mentioned by obyvatel here:

The whole text can be intellectually appealing - specially if someone has not encountered these principles before.

I was 18 at the time; I didn't stumble upon LKJ's work until I was 21. I think returning to this book and rereading it in the context of all of the new information I've acquired would be an interesting exercise. I found obyvatel's analysis of it insightful.

 

[BlueKiwi]

Did any of the forum come to any solid conclusion about this ?

It's all online here for reference.

I'm interested in the The Seven Hermetic Principles, since it seems to me to ring true to a degree.

I'm not too sure about The Principle of Gender though, especially since the C's have communicated this :

Q: Was it this male dominated religion that contributed to the destruction of Kantek?

A: No.

Q: Okay, when they were on their home planet, why did they develop a masculine religion as opposed to a feminine one, considering the fact that women are the source of life, in certain terms?

A: In your density, masculinism/feminish is essentially a roll of "the dice." Remember, at higher levels gender is nonexistent.

 

[Wandering Star]

Did any of the forum come to any solid conclusion about this ?

It's all online here for reference.

I'm interested in the The Seven Hermetic Principles, since it seems to me to ring true to a degree.

I'm not too sure about The Principle of Gender though, especially since the C's have communicated this :

Without having read the whole book but only the text quoted by Jacksun, I would venture some comments. If my reading instrument is in error, I am sure that it will be corrected by the network. So thanks in advance.
Intellectually, the principles seem sound. I have encountered the same principles in a scattered form in Hinduism and Taoism. This makes sense since these are fundamental principles and a mature esoteric tradition worth its salt is likely to include them in its teachings. How the principles are understood and applied seem more important to me and in this regard, some parts of the text tripped a few alarms within me. Some of it is explicit, but I was also bothered by what it did not say- like no mention of helping others accompany the many ways in which the student can help himself through the understanding and applications of the principles. The overall feel I got is STS - this refers to the motivation of the authors rather than the principles themselves.




Controlling vibrations of others, conquering natural phenomena, grasping the scepter of power - seems quite STS - osit.


Have difficulty understanding the bolded text. Somewhat similar to post -modernist relativism - osit.


The bolded text again rang a bell. Overall, the statements ring true - the principle of transmutation of base emotions into higher ones. But the feel I got from "the degrees of love and degrees of hate and the middle point which is the grey area" is that it approaches the issue from a strictly unilevel perspective without any mention of multilevelness. According to Dabrowski, hate and love are interchangable at the first or primary level of integration. Love at the level of secondary level of integration is not interchangable and this is the result of the transmutation or alchemy. And at that level, would there be a desire to change hate to love in the minds of others for a person of STO orientation?


Using the natural flow of life - Taoists talk about this one quite a bit. But without further qualification, this seems like taking the path of least resistance - no struggle - go with the flow. Maybe this is true at the level of an alchemist but for students striving towards the STO path on 3D planet earth, this does not seem to ring true - osit. But I may have wrongly interpreted the sense of the text and done some projection here.

Here the STS orientation seems quite obvious - osit.


It is difficult to say something concrete without knowing what the "many base, pernicious,degrading, lustful, licentious, perverse" teachings are but the tone seems a little strong. In that overall context, the last statement would seem to have an air of superiority - osit.

Corrections to my reading instrument are highly appreciated.

 

[Wandering Star]

STS in high degree.