Greetings All!

Since first posting Path of the Initiate, Part I - The Kybalion on RMN a few years ago, I have researched just exactly WHO "The Three Initiates" really is, and the author is widely believed to be William Walker Atkinson.

He wrote many books under different pseudonyms - and as far as anyone can tell thus far - he never took official credit for any of the works he wrote using pseudonyms.

Here's a snip from his Wiki page, followed by the link:

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Atkinson was a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide circulation among New Thought devotees and occult practitioners. He published under several pen names, including Magus Incognito, Theodore Sheldon, Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita, and probably other names not identified at present. He is also popularly held to be one (if not all) of the Three Initiates who anonymously authored The Kybalion, which certainly resembles Atkinson's other writings in style and subject matter. Atkinson's two co-authors in the latter venture, if they even existed, are unknown, but speculation often includes names like Mabel Collins, Michael Whitty, Paul Foster Case, and Harriett Case.

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Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

Blessings and Namaste,

Gaian