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The kybalion by three initiates7/7/2023 But the copyright and first edition were actually from 1908, when Case had barely arrived in the city. But The Kybalion reads to the letter like Atkinson, and it was published before the two men would have been likely to meet. A long-standing rumor, which now abounds online, named Paul Foster Case as one of the Three Initiates. This compendium of "lost" Egyptian-Hermetic wisdom read a lot like New Thought principles recast in antique language but nonetheless enthralled readers, partly due to the secrecy of its authorship. The Chicagoan used the last of these aliases in 1908 to publish his most successful book, one of the occult classics of the twentieth century: The Kybalion. Atkinson himself wrote many books, under the pseudonyms Yogi Ramacharaka, Magus Incognito, and, most famously, Three Initiates. A Chicago lawyer named William Walker Atkinson produced an imaginative array of occult books from his Yogi Publication Society based in the twenty-two-story Masonic Temple Building, once a jewel of the city's skyline and later demolished. It was home to the influential New Thought teacher Emma Curtis Hopkins and hosted bustling subcultures in "mental science" and metaphysical publishing. Chicago was a great city for a budding occultist in the early twentieth century.
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