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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1842 edition by Richard Bentley, London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1842 edition by Richard Bentley, London. ... Read more

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Datamonitor's retail databooks are based on key market value data for eight major product sectors, 20 product markets, 16 core retail distribution channels and 62 countries. This profile focuses on the printed media retail market in Greece and provides current and forecast data on market value in relation to the parent retail sector and total retail within the country.

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• Total product retail market value from 2002 to 2007 as well as forecasts to 2012
• The size of the product market as a proportion of total product sector sales and a growth rate comparison
• Current and forecast product market value segmented by major retail channels

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1865 edition by Harper & Brothers, New York. ... Read more

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A Photographic Journey - a nostalgic look at tradition, religion, history and the spirit of the people of Greece - presented in colorful & memorable images by world-famous photographer Michael Nikas Dismatsek. Alexis Alexandris, Consul General of Greece, calls this book ""one of the finest books on Greece. There is no other book that comes close to representing the true spirit of Greece and its people. The photography is outstanding!" Travel writer Wary K. Nolan describes Michael's imagery as ""crisp, inviting, full of color, texture and spirit ... like the country itself! The colors are so pure and brilliant, they're almost painful to the eye." Including it in the 2002 Top 100 book-list, the Globe & Mail writes: ""Photographer Michael Nikas of Burlington, Ont., returned to the land of his birth for this pictorial odyssey. And what a glorious treat that journey is - filled with the many colors of Greece and its people. Images that linger include a white church against an incredibly blue sea, a field of poppies and two cabbies captured in a heated argument." ... Read more

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"Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece" is an examination of basic Hermetic teachings. It includes the following chapters: An Introduction, Hermetic Philosophy, Seven Hermetic Principles, Mental Transmutation, The All, The Mental Universe, The Divine Paradox, "The All" in All, Planes of Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Causation, Chapter XIII. Gender, Mental Gender, and Hermetic Axioms. ... Read more

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Great book
This book clarifies the principles behind all religions and philosophies in a most elegant way.
Without too many attempts to convince readers, the Kybalion lays out seven principles that can be easily applied to any area of life;health wealth relationships, any area of life. If applied to a religion or a science, it will clarify the meaning of a written passage or an experiment.
While the book does offer explanations, it is really meant to be experimented with and applied to life. For example, the Principle of Vibration states "Nothing rests; everything moves" and then the authors explain how things that may not have been considered motion before actually are forms of motion.
Although the Kybalion tends to lean on scientific examples, I found the book to be very spiritual in nature. Without question one of my favorite books.

Still the Best Primer on Basic Hermetic Philosophy Available
This book is, to my mind, still the best primer on Basic Hermetic Philosophy available. It's coverage of the Seven Fundamental Laws of Hermeticism is timeless. It also adds seven related Axioms which are of very practical use in implementing the seven laws in one's life. Indeed, the seven axioms are strikingly similar to the knowledge of the Mystery Schools. One must be willing to look past the sometimes dated, but almost never arcane, language and the occasionally sensationalist tone of this book to fully appreciate its value. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this little book is actually quite readable considering it was written in the early 1900's.

As far as the intermixture of Eastern mysticism (as mentioned as a major negative by one of the lowest scored reviews to this book) as the true initiate to the Hermetic Mysteries knows, the Hermetic Philosophy was a Greco-Egyptian synthesis of esoteric truths and methods that were not limited to the historical periods and regions of ancient Greece and Old Kingdom Egypt. To include yogic principles and yogic techniques in the book is quite appropriate.

Suspend your reluctance lest you are disinclined to buy this book because if its date of publication or its occasional inaccuracies (understandable given that in 1912 we were less than 50 years from the rebirth of the serious and open, as opposed to secret, study of Hermetics - which had been obscured for centuries). Even though it is available, if you look hard enough, on the WWW (and no please don't ask me for the site), I already own one copy and am in the process of buying another from Amazon for use in another location. I don't own too many "doubles" of books on magic or the practice of mysticism (I am not that rich), and that should tell you something.

Good Reading...Louis

A View of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece +++
Due to the very wide and deep areas covered by "The Kybalion" and the historical fog around the "three authors" and "their" origins and related authors and their origins -- I will only claim my own very personal [and very independant] Rosicrucian understanding of this little book. I understand "The Kybalion" as the single best presentation of Rosicrucian Philosophy -- which would seem to be part of the background of the quite likely real author of this work -- William Walker Atkinson [and maybe others]. Possible Symbolist meanings of Rose-and-Cross are such Dyads as Laws-and-Trial, Life-and-Trust, Love-and-Truth and Mary-and-Jesus -- as well as exoteric and esoteric meanings of Christian Rosenkreuz. The major content of "The Kybalion" is in as much ordered detail as just sufficient and necessary to guide one towards such Dyadic Philosophy -- as well a transcendant guide to further Inspiration that is unlimited -- due to the expansive generality of this little book. Understanding increases upon every re-reading. The exact ordering of topics -- based on the Seven Hermetic Principles -- is most precise and natural -- as is the exact intention of other aspects of "The Kybalion" -- down to careful explanations of principles, examples and usages thereof, and the exact wording used for all the prose. Interesting that this little book is from 1908 -- considering the close harmony with later Relativity and Quantum Dynamics -- matter as a form of energy and levels and vibrations of such energy -- as just so remarked upon in "The Kybalion". Ever-Inspiring +++

A great research tool!
The Kybalion is one of the main philosophies that Occultists draw on - over and over again - sometimes without knowing it- and this book has much for the novice as for the advanced practitioner. Some of the material will help you understand some of the stumbling blocks when working on a particular occult project.I recommend this book 100% and can offer a few other key books if you are looking for just practical occult teachings, i.e. how to achieve occult power instead of just plain research (but these books that I am about to recommend really are not for the novice, they are strictly for someone seeking occult power and who can keep it in check):

True Astral Worship: Why Today, More Than Ever, Are The Pre-Religions Very Important.

The New Avatar And The Destiny Of The Soul: Answers To The Question: Why?

Second Sight: A Study Of Natural And Induced Clairvoyance

How To Read The Crystal: With A Concise Dictionary Of Astrological Terms

Finding The Higher Powers Of Mind And Spirit: The Way To The Prime Goal

How To Achieve Clairvoyance And Occult Power

Getting In Tune With The Infinite: A Guide To Fullness Of Peace, Power, And Plenty

Each of these books, as well as The Kybalion can help you find the astral plane, but what you do there, and why you go there is your affair.

Must-Have Book on Hermetics
After reading this book, I can say this is very insightful guide to the principles underlying hermetic.Each of the seven principles is presented and discussed in an easy to understand manner.However, to apply these principles to your life is another matter.This book is not about the practice of hermitic, but about the primal philosophy that transcend mysticism and religion.It is an invaluable addition to your library, but only if you are ready for it.

The author(s) of this book, who we know only as Three Initiates, starts out describing the fundamentals of the hermetic history and philosophy. Then it briefly introduces the seven principles of hermetic, setting a framework for further discussion:

I. The Principle of Mentalism
II. The Principle of Correspondence
III. The Principle of Vibration
IV. The Principe of Polarity
V. The Principle of Rhythm
VI. The Principle of Cause and Effect
VII. The Principle of Gender

Prior presenting each principle, Three Initiates builds up the necessary knowledge to understand it better.For example, concepts of "Mental Transmutation" and "The All" are discussed before starting with the Principle of Mentalism.Each principle is explained with some detail, and multiple examples.

Finally, Three Initiates advices us against the pursuing Knowledge without expressing it into Action, which otherwise becomes a vain affair.In the last chapter, it summarizes the previously presented principles and briefly explain how to approach them.

This is a book that belongs to every mystical library, but paradoxically, not the first that a new student of hermetic should approach.For that purpose, I would recommend Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon or The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power by Jason Augustus Newcomb.However, the philosophical content in this book is approachable from any mystical foundation, not just hermetics.As such, buy it because eventually you will find it in your path to mysticism.
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Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 2 continues with the legendary age of the Greeks, paying special attention to the Iliad and Odyssey, and begins the story of historical Greece, setting the geographical and chronological coordinates and introducing the reader to the world of the Peloponnesus. ... Read more