The Kybalion: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Kybalion, credited to The Three Initiates, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Kybalion by The Three Initiates. Read in English by Andrea Fiore. The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". The Kybalion was first published in 1908 by the Yogi Publication Society and is now in the public domain, and can be found on the internet. The book purports to be based upon ancient Hermeticism, though many of its ideas are relatively modern concepts arising from the New Thought movement. The book early on makes the claim that it makes its appearance in one's life when the time is appropriate and includes variations of material found in the book of Proverbs. The book devotes a chapter to each of its seven "Principles", or axioms: The Principle of Mentalism, The Principle of Correspondence, The Principle of Vibration, The Principle of Polarity, The Principle of Rhythm, The Principle of Cause and Effect, and The Principle of Gender. Summary by Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Kybalion
• Author credits: The Three Initiates
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:59:15

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• New Thought
• magic
• Gnosticism
• mythology
• mind
• wisdom
• correspondence

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 8:33
2. 02 - Chapter 1: The Hermetic Philosophy — 10:46
3. 03 - Chapter 2: The Seven Hermetic Principles — 18:57
4. 04 - Chapter 3: Mental Transmutation — 9:15
5. 05 - Chapter 4: The All — 13:40
6. 06 - Chapter 5: The Mental Universe — 13:59
7. 07 - Chapter 6: The Divine Paradox — 20:26
8. 08 - Chapter 7: 'The All' in All — 19:05
9. 09 - Chapter 8: Planes of Correspondence — 26:51
10. 10 - Chapter 9: Vibration — 13:09
11. 11 - Chapter 10: Polarity — 11:46
12. 12 - Chapter 11: Rhythm — 13:30
13. 13 - Chapter 12: Causation — 13:57
14. 14 - Chapter 13: Gender — 11:22
15. 15 - Chapter 14: Mental Gender — 21:23
16. 16 - Chapter 15: Hermetic Axioms — 12:36

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