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In 1908 a small book appeared in Chicago under the byline "Three Initiates." In 1912 a Russian journalist finished a treatise on the fourth dimension, a…
Every few decades, someone translates the esoteric classics again. New Enoches appear. New Pistis Sophias.
From The Book of Enoch
Two texts, separated by something like two millennia and with no documented line of transmission between them, open with the same move.
Every few years someone rediscovers the Kybalion and announces, with the confidence of a person quoting scripture, that it preserves the ancient wisdom of…
In 1908 a small volume appeared in Chicago under the byline "Three Initiates." It claimed to transmit the secret doctrines of ancient Egypt, carried a…