The first year

Everyone starts here: the Kybalion, then Agrippa on the elements and the planets, then Frazer on how magic was thought to work. Each lesson has study notes, a reading and a short quiz.

  1. The Master Key What the Kybalion says it is, and its seven principles · Ione Calder · about 21 min of reading
  2. The Mental Art What the Kybalion means by “transmutation,” and what it says THE ALL is · Ione Calder · about 15 min of reading
  3. The Dream and the Stone The universe as a thought in THE ALL, and why the book says it is still real for us · Ione Calder · about 25 min of reading
  4. The Ladder of Planes How THE ALL is in everything, and the book’s map of the planes of being · Ione Calder · about 32 min of reading
  5. Two Ends of One Scale The principles of Vibration and Polarity, and the science the book borrowed · Ione Calder · about 17 min of reading
  6. The Pendulum and the Chain The Principles of Rhythm and of Cause and Effect, and what the book says about chance and free will · Ione Calder · about 20 min of reading
  7. The I and the Me The seventh principle, Gender, in the world and in the mind · Ione Calder · about 24 min of reading
  8. Knowledge for Use The Kybalion’s last chapter, its working sayings, and a look back at the seven principles · Ione Calder · about 9 min of reading
  9. The Threefold World What Agrippa says magic is, its three parts, and the four elements · Rowan Ashby · about 12 min of reading
  10. All Things in All Fire, earth, water and air, and how Agrippa finds them in everything from stones to stars · Rowan Ashby · about 23 min of reading
  11. The Hidden Powers Agrippa on the natural and occult virtues of things, and the chain that brings them down from above · Rowan Ashby · about 25 min of reading
  12. Under Seven Stars How Agrippa sorts the world under the Sun, the Moon and the five planets · Rowan Ashby · about 23 min of reading
  13. Like Makes Like Frazer’s two laws of magic, and the first of his examples of homoeopathic magic · Nell Cobbett · about 37 min of reading
  14. Like Produces Like Frazer’s tour of imitative magic, from the war-path to the tides · Nell Cobbett · about 39 min of reading
  15. Once Touched Frazer’s second branch of sympathetic magic, the magic of things that were once joined · Nell Cobbett · about 23 min of reading
  16. From Magician to King Frazer’s story of how the public magician rose to power, and a look back over the first year · Nell Cobbett · about 9 min of reading