![]() ![]() ![]() While the latter explores seven "Hermetic Principles", The Arcane Teachings examines seven "Arcane Laws" The Kybalion claims to be an elucidation of an ancient, unpublished Hermetic text of the same name, and The Arcane Teachings claims to reveal the wisdom of an ancient, unpublished scroll of occult aphorisms. Also suggestive is that among his earliest published pseudonymous and anonymous works may have been a series entitled The Arcane Teachings, which bears many superficial similarities to The Kybalion. Atkinson was known to use many pseudonyms, and to self-publish his works. The most common proposal is that The Kybalion was authored by William Walker Atkinson, either alone or with others, such as Paul Foster Case and Elias Gewurz. As a result, a great deal of speculation has been made about who actually wrote the book. The Three Initiates who authored The Kybalion chose to remain anonymous. ![]()
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And the proof was Eightball, perhaps the most important American alternative comic to emerge from the twentieth century.ĭuring its first decade, Eightball was a Mad magazine-esque free-wheeling anthology. But I also had the theory that if it was all by the same artist, and the artist was trying to be truthful or willing to let his unconscious or his intuition decide what was going to happen on the pages, then it would all kind of come together in a cohesive way. different styles - if you combined the serious stuff with humorous stuff - that the result would be kind of discordant. “The thought was,” Clowes recently observed, In the ’80s, prevailing wisdom held that a series needed to focus on a single character and maintain a consistent look. ![]() ![]() Freed from churning out short comedic adventures featuring the same cast of characters, he’ll finally be able to develop a more personal and wide-ranging approach to comics. 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