Talk:The Kybalion

message: "The content of this book is generally believed to be a portion of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus and outlines seven principles on which it is based." This is a more or less completely unfounded statement in a couple of respects. Who exactly believes it to be part of Hermes Trismegistus' teachings? How many people? For that matter, it makes it sound like there is a coherent body of teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, and this is really not the case. And lastly, looking through some of the actual, very old texts attributed to the guy, I doubt you'll find these "seven principles". This is a bad way to open up the article, and it needs to be replaced with some factual information, at minimum framing these statements as part of the book's claims. --67.185.40.164 04:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unfounded statement

message: I'm looking forward to editing this page heavily. To answer some of these old questions....
The book is dedicated to Hermes, and in only this respect is it included into Hermeticism, as far as I can tell. Its a newer (if you were living in 1912) take on the older texts. 
I'm not sure how many people concider this Hermeticism, since that would be a subjective answer.
A NPOV will be thrown onto the page, so anything making it sound like there was a "coherent body of teachings" will be noted.
And I'm sure a few of these principles are spread out through the many texts "attributed" to Hermes. :)
Zos 06:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Looking forward to editing

message: I'd like to know how Herman’s Magical Universe is a derivative work. I'm taking it off because based on the description (here, and on Amazon.com), it doesnt classify as a derivative work.
Zos 10:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivative Works 

message: My copy says it was published in 1912. Why does this say 1908? I see someone just re-categorized it based on 1908...Zos 00:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publishing date 

message: I'm removing a link to a Kybalion discussion group within Yahoo Groups. It's been removed once before as it is not encyclopedic and fall within the guidelines of Wikipedia's External links guide. Per the guide, links to discussion forums are to be avoided.
KamiLian 06:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I'm editing this sentence: "There are other similarities, and some argue that the The Arcane Teachings might have been Atkinson's "first draft" of material which later became The Kybalion, however this seems not very consistent because Atkinson wrote and expanded another two editions of the Arcane Teachings, the second edition in 1909 and the third edition in 1911." The text of the Arcane Teachings is identical in all three editions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.189.101.217 (talk) 18:33, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Following cat's nice revision, I have copy-edited and cleaned up the whole article. I removed the cleanup tag as a result. I also removed a clearly spam link to "the Master Key of the Universe" or some such; the website is pure advertising. And I see no reason why Herbert Silberer was listed in See Also. (Note, other removals from See also are per WP:MOS, See also should not duplicate links from the article.) Btw, whoever wrote this, even though you'll never read my comment here, I just want to point out that you never use the word "you" in article text. :) Eaglizard 17:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

text: nb Two other things: I changed "elementary spirits" to "elemental", I'm about 85% sure that's correct, and I inserted that "the book devotes a chapter to each Principle". That is correct, isn't it? It's been many years since I read the Kybalion, it was my first real introduction to Hermeticism (as I suspect it has been for many). Eaglizard 17:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Who Wrote" section revised 

message: Before someone else decides to arbitrarily remove a link because there is some commercial activity on the site somewhere, check out [].  These are the only rules I have seen about advertising, and the recent deletion of a site that gave the entire pdf of the subject matter for the reason that there is a shop somewhere on the site (which cannot be seen from the link) made me feel the need to clarify this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by King Vegita (talk • contribs) 16:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  rules on external linking 

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