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The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Hermeticism

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Project Gutenberg text of the 1908 work attributed to “Three Initiates”; exact modern claim-provenance source for the seven-principles system, not an ancient Hermetic witness or independent confirmation of its claimed antiquity.

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The Kybalion is a 1908 modern claim source, not an ancient witness to the philosophical Hermetica.

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The catalog establishes late-antique Hermetic texts and later Renaissance and modern reception, but it does not support a single unbroken prehistoric science tradition.

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