The Kybalion

Seven laws published by "Three Initiates" who never gave their names.

Published in 1908 under the pseudonym 'Three Initiates,' The Kybalion claims to transmit ancient Hermetic doctrine through seven principles — mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, cause and effect, gender. Scholarship attributes it to New Thought publisher William Walker Atkinson, and its 'principles' owe more to 1900s New Thought than to the Greek Hermetica. It remains one of the most-read occult books in America, and its phrase 'as above, so below' became the connective slogan of conspiracy culture: the belief that patterns repeat at every scale, which is also how this map works.