William Walker Atkinson the Art of Logical Thinking or the Laws of Reasoning

American author and occultist

William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson
Born	(1862-12-05)December 5, 1862 Baltimore, Maryland
Died	November 22, 1932(1932-11-22) (anile 69) Los Angeles, California
Pen name	Theron Q. Dumont Yogi Ramacharaka

William Walker Atkinson (Dec v, 1862 – Nov 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, equally well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Idea movement. He is the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka.^[1]

He wrote an estimated 100 books, all in the last 30 years of his life. He was mentioned in by editions of Who'south Who in America, in Religious Leaders of America, and in like publications. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.^{[two] [3]}

Life and career [edit]

William Walker Atkinson was built-in in Baltimore, Maryland on Dec 5, 1862,^[four] to Emma and William Atkinson. He began his working life equally a grocer at fifteen years quondam. He married Margret Foster Blackness of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. Their kickoff child died young. The 2d later married and had ii daughters.

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an chaser to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its price, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, after attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Idea.

Mental Science and New Idea [edit]

Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write manufactures on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Scientific discipline. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore'due south new journal, Mod Thought.

By the early on 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the piece of work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement every bit an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900–1901), New Idea (1901–1905) and Advanced Idea (1906–1916).

In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his first book, Idea-Forcefulness in Business and Everyday Life, being a serial of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, idea-force, concentration, will-ability, and applied mental scientific discipline.

He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Idea publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower'south popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Commodity after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile, he too founded his own Psychic Guild and the Atkinson School of Mental Scientific discipline. Both were located in the same building as Bloom's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.

Atkinson was a by president of the International New Thought Alliance.

Publishing career and use of pseudonyms [edit]

Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson was thought to accept written under many pseudonyms. Information technology is not known whether he ever confirmed or denied authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are at present credited to Atkinson were linked to one some other by virtue of the fact that their works were released past a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they too wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. Atkinson was the editor of all of those magazines and his pseudonymous authors acted showtime as contributors to the periodicals, and were and then spun off into their own volume-writing careers—with most of their books being released by Atkinson'southward ain publishing houses.

Ane key to unravelling this tangled web of pseudonyms is found in "Avant-garde Idea" magazine, billed equally "A Journal of The New Thought, Applied Psychology, Yogi Philosophy, Effective Occultism, Metaphysical Healing, Etc."

This magazine, edited by Atkinson, advertised articles by Atkinson and Theron Q. Dumont—the latter ii were subsequently credited to Atkinson—and it had the same address as The Yogi Publishing Gild, which published the works attributed to Yogi Ramacharaka.

Avant-garde Thought magazine also carried articles past Swami Bhakta Vishita, merely when it came time for Vishita's writings to be collected in volume form, they were non published by the Yogi Publishing Society. Instead they were published past The Advanced Idea Publishing Co., the same house that brought out the Theron Q. Dumont books—and published Advanced Thought.

Hinduism and yoga [edit]

In the 1890s, Atkinson had become interested in Hinduism and later 1900 he devoted a great bargain of effort to the diffusion of yoga and Oriental occultism in the W. It is unclear at this tardily engagement whether he really e'er subscribed to whatever grade of Hindu religion, or only wished to write on the subject.

According to unverifiable sources, while Atkinson was in Chicago at the Earth's Columbian Exposition in 1893, he met i Baba Bharata, a pupil of the late Indian mystic Yogi Ramacharaka (1799 - c.1893). As the story goes, Bharata had become acquainted with Atkinson's writings afterward arriving in America, the 2 men shared like ideas, and so they decided to collaborate. While editing New Thought mag, information technology is claimed, Atkinson co-wrote with Bharata a series of books which they attributed to Bharata's teacher, Yogi Ramacharaka. This story cannot be verified and—like the "official" biography that falsely claimed Atkinson was an "English author"—it may be a fabrication.

No tape exists in India of a Yogi Ramacharaka, nor is there evidence in America of the clearing of a Baba Bharata. Furthermore, although Atkinson may accept travelled to Chicago to visit the 1892 - 1893 Earth'south Columbian Exposition, where the authentic Indian yogi Swami Vivekananda attracted enthusiastic audiences, he is only known to have taken up residence in Chicago around 1900 and to have passed the Illinois Bar Examination in 1903.

Atkinson's claim to take an Indian co-author was really non unusual amongst the New Thought and New Historic period writers of his era. As Carl T. Jackson made clear in his 1975 article The New Thought Movement and the Nineteenth Century Discovery of Oriental Philosophy,^[5] Atkinson was not lone in embracing a vaguely exotic "orientalism" as a running theme in his writing, nor in crediting Hindus, Buddhists, or Sikhs with the possession of special knowledge and secret techniques of clairvoyance, spiritual evolution, sexual free energy, health, or longevity.

The manner had been paved in the mid to late 19th century by Paschal Beverly Randolph, who wrote in his books Eulis and Seership that he had been taught the mysteries of mirror scrying by the deposed Indian Maharajah Dalip Singh. Randolph was known for embroidering the truth when it came to his ain autobiography (he claimed that his mother Flora Randolph, an African American woman from Virginia, who died when he was eleven years quondam, had been a foreign princess) but he was actually telling the truth—or something very close to it, according to his biographer John Patrick Deveney—when he said that he had met the Maharajah in Europe and had learned from him the proper manner to utilize both polished gemstones and Indian "bhattah mirrors" in divination.^[6]

In 1875, the year of Randolph'due south death, the Ukrainian-born Helena Petrovna Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society, by means of which she spread the teachings of mysterious Himalayan enlightened yogis, the Masters of the Aboriginal Wisdom, and the doctrines of the Eastern philosophy in full general. Later this pioneer work, some representatives from known lineages of Indian and Asian spiritual and philosophical tradition like Vivekananda, Anagarika Dharmapala, Paramahansa Yogananda, and others, started coming to the West.

In any case, with or without a co-author, Atkinson started writing a series of books under the name Yogi Ramacharaka in 1903, ultimately releasing more than than a dozen titles under this pseudonym. The Ramacharaka books were published by the Yogi Publication Guild in Chicago and reached more people than Atkinson's New Thought works did. In fact, all of his books on yoga are still in print today.

Atkinson plainly enjoyed the idea of writing as a Hindu then much that he created two more Indian personas, Swami Bhakta Vishita and Swami Panchadasi. Strangely, neither of these identities wrote on Hinduism. Their material was for the most part concerned with the arts of divination and mediumship, including "oriental" forms of clairvoyance and seership. Of the two, Swami Bhakta Vishita was by far the more popular, and with more than 30 titles to his credit, he eventually outsold fifty-fifty Yogi Ramacharaka.

A French master of magnetism [edit]

During the 1910s, Atkinson put his attention into another pseudonym, that of Theron Q. Dumont. This entity was supposed to be French, and his works, written in English and published in Chicago, combined an involvement in New Thought with ideas nearly the grooming of the volition, memory enhancement, and personal magnetism.

Dual career and later years [edit]

Decease Document for William Walker Atkinson

In 1903, the aforementioned yr that he began his writing career as Yogi Ramacharaka, Atkinson was admitted to the Bar of Illinois. Perhaps it was a desire to protect his ongoing career as a lawyer that led him to adopt and then many pseudonyms—but if and then, he left no written account documenting such a motivation.

How much fourth dimension Atkinson devoted to his police practice after moving to Chicago is unknown, but it is unlikely to have been a total-time career, given his amazing output during the next xv years equally a writer, editor, and publisher in the fields of New Thought, yoga, occultism, mediumship, divination, and personal success.

The loftier indicate of his prodigious capacity for production was reached in the late 1910s. In addition to writing and publishing a steady stream of books and pamphlets, Atkinson started writing manufactures for Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine Nautilus, as early on as November 1912, while from 1916 to 1919, he simultaneously edited his ain periodical Advanced Idea. During this same flow he likewise found time to assume the part of the honorary president of the International New Thought Alliance.

Amongst the final collaborators with whom Atkinson may have been associated was the mentalist C. Alexander, "The Crystal Seer," whose New Thought booklet of affirmative prayer, "Personal Lessons, Codes, and Instructions for Members of the Crystal Silence League", published in Los Angeles during the 1920s, contained on its final page an advert for an all-encompassing list of books past Atkinson, Dumont, Ramacharaka, Vishita, and Atkinson's collaborator, the occultist L. West. de Laurence.

Atkinson died November 22, 1932 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 69.

Writings [edit]

Atkinson was a prolific writer, and his many books achieved wide apportionment among New Idea 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 nowadays. He is also popularly held to be one (if not all) of the Three Initiates who anonymously authored The Kybalion, which certainly resembles Atkinson'southward other writings in style and subject field matter. Atkinson's two co-authors in the latter venture, if they even existed, are unknown, but speculation frequently includes names similar Mabel Collins, Michael Whitty, Paul Foster Case, and Harriett Example.

A major collection of Atkinson's works is among the holdings of a Brazilian organization called Circulo de Estudos Ramacháraca. According to this group, Atkinson has been identified as the writer or co-author (with individuals such as Edward E. Beals and Lauron William de Laurence) of 105 split titles. These tin can be cleaved down roughly into the following groups:^[7]

Titles written under the name William Walker Atkinson [edit]

These works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They found a footing for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought". Titles include Idea Vibration or the Police of Attraction in the Thought Globe, and Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing: A Form of Lessons on the Psychic Phenomena of Distant Sensing, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, etc.

Although nigh of the Atkinson titles were published past Atkinson'south own Advanced Thought Publishing Company in Chicago, with English distribution by 50. N. Fowler of London, England, at least a few of his books in the "New Psychology" serial were published by Elizabeth Towne in Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, and offered for auction in her New Thought magazine The Nautilus. I such title, for which Atkinson is credited as the author, with the copyright internally assigned to Towne, is The Psychology of Salesmanship, published in 1912. The probable reason that Atkinson made an assignment of copyright to Towne is that his "New Psychology" books had initially been serialized in Towne's magazine, where he was a freelance writer from 1912 at to the lowest degree through 1914.

Titles written under pseudonyms [edit]

These include Atkinson'south teachings on Yoga and Oriental philosophy, as well as New Thought and occult titles. They were written in such a way as to grade a course of practical educational activity.

Yogi Ramacharaka titles

When Atkinson wrote under the pseudonym Yogi Ramacharaka, he claimed to be a Hindu. As Ramacharaka, he helped to popularize Eastern concepts in America, with Yoga and a broadly-interpreted Hinduism being particular areas of focus. The works of Yogi Ramacharaka were published over the course of nearly 10 years beginning in 1903. Some were originally issued as a series of lectures delivered at the frequency of one lesson per month. Additional material was issued at each interval in the form of supplementary text books.

Ramacharaka'south Advanced Course in Yoga Philosophy and Oriental Occultism remains popular in some circles.

According to Atkinson's publisher, the Yogi Publication Gild, some of these titles were inspired past a student of the "real" Yogi Ramacharaka, Baba Bharata, although there is no historical record that either of these individuals ever existed.

In answer to inquiries near Yogi Ramacharaka, this official information was provided by the Yogi Publication Society:

"Ramacharaka was built-in in India in about the twelvemonth 1799. He prepare forth at an early on age to educate himself and to seek a meliorate philosophy for living.

"Traveling throughout the East almost always on pes, he visited the depositories of books available. The primary places where libraries were open to him were lamaseries and monasteries, although with the passing of fourth dimension some individual libraries of royalty and of wealthy families were also thrown open to him.

"In nigh the yr 1865, after many years of searching and many visits to the alone high places where he could fast and meditate, Ramacharaka found a basis for his philosophy. At virtually this same time, he took every bit a educatee, Baba Bharata, who was the viii-twelvemonth-old son of a Brahmin family. Together teacher and educatee retraced the steps of the teacher'due south earlier travels, while Ramacharaka indoctrinated the male child with his philosophy.

"In 1893, feeling that his life was drawing to a shut, Ramacharaka sent his pupil along to carry their beliefs to the new world. Arriving in Chicago where the Globe Columbian Exposition was in progress, Baba Bharata was an instant success. He lectured before enthusiastic audiences from all parts of the world who were visiting the Fair, attracting a considerable following in the process. Many wished him to kickoff a new religion - but he felt but the drive to write on the subject which he lectured on so finer.

"In the closing years of the 1800s, Baba Bharata became acquainted with William Walker Atkinson, an English writer who had written along similar lines and whose books had been published by ourselves and by our London connection, Fifty. N. Fowler & Company Ltd.

"The men collaborated and with Bharata providing the material and Atkinson the writing talent, they wrote the books which they attributed to Yogi Ramacharaka as a measure of their respect. The very fact that afterwards all these years their books are well known around the world and sell amend with every passing year is a credit, too, to the two men who wrote the books."

Annotation that in at least one betoken, this "official" account is false: William Walker Atkinson was an American, non "an English language author" and Fifty. N. Fowler, an occult publishing firm, was the British publisher of books that Atkinson had published under various of his own imprints in Chicago.

Swami Bhakta Vishita titles

Atkinson's second Hindu-sounding pseudonym, Swami Bhakta Vishita, billed every bit "The Hindoo Master" was not authentically Hindu, nor did he write on the topic of Hinduism. His best-known titles, which accept remained in print for many years after inbound the public domain, were "The Evolution of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future; Hindoo and Oriental Methods" (1915), "Genuine Mediumship, or Invisible Powers", and "Can We Talk to Spirit Friends?" Atkinson produced more than two dozen Swami Bhakta Vishita books, plus a one-half-dozen saddle-stitched newspaper pamphlets under the Vishita name. All of them dealt with clairvoyance, mediumship, and the afterlife. Like Ramacharaka, Vishita was listed as a regular correspondent to Atkinson's Advanced Thought magazine, but his books were published past the Advanced Thought Publishing Company, not by the Yogi Publication Social club, which handled the Ramacharaka titles.

Swami Panchadasi titles

Despite the popularity of his Yogi Ramacharaka and Swami Bhakta Vishita series, the work that Atkinson produced nether his third Hindu-sounding pseudonym, Swami Panchadasi, failed to capture a wide general audience. The discipline matter, Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, was non authentically Hindu, either.

Theron Q. Dumont titles

As Theron Q. Dumont, Atkinson stated on the title pages of his works that he was an "Instructor on the Fine art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Paris, France"—a merits manifestly untrue, as he was an American living in the United States.

The Atkinson titles released under the Dumont proper name were primarily concerned with self-comeback and the development of mental will power and self-confidence. Amidst them were Applied Memory Training, The Art and Scientific discipline of Personal Magnetism, The Power of Concentration, and The Advanced Course in Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination, The Human Automobile', Mastermind".

Theodore Sheldon titles

The health and healing book, Vim Culture has often been attributed to William Walker Atkinson. Theodore Sheldon does non appear to be the same person every bit T. J. Shelton, who (like Atkinson) wrote on subjects related to wellness and healing for The Nautilus mag and was likewise ane of several honorary presidents of the International New Idea Brotherhood. Discovery of a 1925 alphabetic character from Theodore Sheldon to Florence Sabin of Johns Hopkins Academy provides evidence of Theodore Sheldon's beingness as an actual person, apart from William Walker Atkinson. The original copy of this letter was located in Florence Sabin'due south university archives and makes reference to Ms. Sabin equally Theodore Sheldon'southward childhood teacher from "the banks of Lake Geneva," which is important biographical data virtually an otherwise unknown writer. While it'south possible that Atkinson could have been a ghost author or contributor to Sheldon'southward work, the personal nature of Sheldon's correspondence with Florence Sabin would have been very difficult for Atkinson to fabricate, suggesting that Theodore Sheldon was more than an Atkinson pen proper noun.

Magus Incognito titles

The Hush-hush Doctrines of the Rosicrucians by Magus Incognito consisted of a nearly verbatim republication of portions of The Cabalistic Teachings, an anonymous work attributed to Atkinson (come across beneath).

Three Initiates

Ostensibly written past "Three Initiates," The Kybalion was published past the Yogi Publication Society.

Whether any of the to a higher place has a basis in fact, The Kybalion bears notable structural resemblances to The Arcane Teachings, an bearding set of six books attributed to Atkinson. A full clarification of the similarities between the two works can be found on the Kybalion folio.

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With Edward Beals, which may accept been some other pseudonym, Atkinson wrote the so-called "Personal Power Books"—a group of 12 titles on humanity'due south internal powers and how to use them. Titles include Faith Ability: Your Inspirational Forces and Regenerative Power or Vital Rejuvenation. Due to the lack of information on Edward Beals, many believe this is also a pseudonym.

With his beau Chicago resident L. Due west. de Laurence he wrote Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing. L.W. de Laurence was an incredible character himself, publisher and author of dozens of "occult" books that had a tremendous influence in many African and Caribbean countries, to the point that, to this day, they are banned in Jamaica.

The 'Arcane Instruction' Books [edit]

A series named The Arcane Pedagogy is also attributed to Atkinson. Perhaps significantly, the doctrine behind The Arcane Teaching is remarkably similar to the philosophy in The Kybalion (another title attributed to Atkinson), and meaning portions of fabric from The Arcane Teaching were later re-worked, appearing nearly verbatim in The Secret Doctrines of the Rosicrucians past Magus Incognito (nevertheless another Atkinson alias).

Nothing is known of the first edition of The Cabalistic Teaching, which apparently consisted of a unmarried book of the aforementioned name.

The second edition was expanded to include iii 'supplementary teachings' in pamphlet form. The 4 titles in this edition were: The Arcane Teaching (hardback), The Cabalistic Formulas, or Mental Alchemy (pamphlet), The Mystery of Sex activity, or Sex Polarity (pamphlet), and Vril, or Vital Magnetism (pamphlet). This edition was published by A. C. McClurg—the same publisher who brought out the Tarzan the Ape-Man series by Edgar Rice Burroughs—under the "Arcane Book Concern" imprint, and the name of the publisher, A. C. McClurg, doesn't actually appear anywhere upon the books in this edition. The series bears a 1909 copyright marker, listing the copyright holder equally "Cabalistic Book Business organization". At that place also appears to take been a pamphlet entitled Free Sample Lesson which was published under the "Cabalistic Book Business organisation" imprint, indicating that it may have appeared concurrently with this edition.

The third edition divide the main title, The Cabalistic Teaching, into three smaller volumes, bringing the full number of books in the series to six. This edition consisted of the following titles (the three titles marked with an asterisk (*) are the volumes that had appeared together equally The Cabalistic Educational activity in the previous edition): The One and the Many* (hardback), Cosmic Law* (hardback), The Psychic Planes* (hardback), The Arcane Formulas, or Mental Alchemy (bounden unknown), The Mystery of Sexual practice, or Sex activity Polarity (bounden unknown), and Vril, or Vital Magnetism (binding unknown). The third edition of The Arcane Pedagogy was published by A. C. McClurg under its own name in 1911. The books in this series deport the original 1909 copyright, plus a 1911 copyright listing "Library Shelf" every bit the new copyright holder.

A search of the Library of Congress'due south web site has revealed that none of The Arcane Teaching series resides in its current collection.

Other likely pseudonyms [edit]

Because Atkinson ran his own publishing companies, Advanced Idea Publishing and the Yogi Publication Society, and is known to take used an unusually large number of pseudonyms, other authors published by those companies may besides have been his pseudonyms;

• A. Gould and Dr. Franklin 50. Dubois (who co-wrote The Scientific discipline of Sex activity Regeneration circa 1912), and
• Frederick Vollrath (who contributed articles on the discipline of "Mental Concrete-Civilization" to Atkinson's Advanced Thought magazine)
• O. Hashnu Hara. Although is difficult to discover concrete prove, the offset inkling is ever the impossibility to detect information near the writer, other than the fact that he wrote books published past Atkinson. Books nether this name include: Applied Yoga; Concentration; and Mental Alchemy, all books with titles similar to other Atkinson's books.

Bibliographies [edit]

For ease of study, this bibliography of the works of William Walker Atkinson is divided into sections based on the proper name Atkinson chose to place on the championship page of each work cited.

Bibliography of Atkinson writing as William Walker (or Due west. Westward.) Atkinson

• The Art of Expression and The Principles of Discourse. 1910.
• The Art of Logical Thinking. 1909.
• "Attainment with Honor", an commodity in "The Nautilus" magazine. June 1914.
• The Crucible of Mod Thought. 1910.
• Dynamic Thought or the Constabulary of Vibrant Energy. 1906.
• How to Read Homo Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms. c.1918
• The Inner Consciousness: A Grade of Lessons on the Inner Planes of the Listen, Intuition, Instinct, Automatic Mentation, and Other Wonderful Phases of Mental Phenomena. Chicago. 1908.
• The Constabulary of the New Idea: A Study of Fundamental Principles & Their Application. 1902.
• The Mastery of Being: A Study of the Ultimate Principle of Reality & the Practical Awarding Thereof. 1911. A portion of this work was republished as a chapter of Pandeism: An Anthology in 2016.
• Memory Culture: The Science of Observing, Remembering and Recalling. 1903.
• Retentivity: How to Develop, Train, and Use It. c. 1909.
• Mental Fascination. 1907.
• "Mental Pictures", an article in "The Nautilus" mag. November 1912.
• Mind and Trunk or Mental States and Physical Conditions. 1910.
• Heed Building of a Child. 1911.
• Mind Power: The Cloak-and-dagger of Mental Magic. Advanced Idea Publishing Co., Chicago.1912.
• The New Psychology Its Message, Principles and Practice. 1909.
• New Thought: Its History and Principles or The Message of the New Thought, A Condensed History of Its Existent Origin with Argument of Its Basic Principles and True Aims. 1915.
• Nuggets of the New Thought. 1902.
• Practical Mental Influence. 1908.
• Practical Mind-Reading. 1907.
• Applied New Idea: Several Things that Accept Helped People. 1911.
• Applied Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing, a course of lessons on the Psychic Phenomena of Afar Sensing, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, etc. Advanced Thought Publishing Co. Masonic Temple, Chicago. 1907.
• The Psychology of Salesmanship. 1912.
• Reincarnation and the Law of Karma. 1908.
• Scientific Parenthood. 1911.
• The Secret of Mental Magic: A Course of Seven Lessons. 1907.
• The Secret of Success. 1908.
• Self-Healing past Thought Force. 1907.
• A Series of lessons in Personal Magnetism, Psychic Influence, Idea-forcefulness, Concentration, Volition-Power, and practical Mental Scientific discipline. 1901.
• The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind. 1909.
• Suggestion and Auto-Proposition. 1915.
• Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof. 1910.
• Thought-Culture or Applied Mental Training. 1909.
• Thought-Force in Business organization and Everyday Life. Chicago. 1900.
• Idea Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Idea World. Chicago. 1906.
• Your Heed and How to Use It: A Transmission of Practical Psychology. 1911.
• "How To Develop Perception," an article in "The Nautilus" magazine. July 1929.
• The Seven Cosmic Laws. March 1931. (Published posthumously in 2011)

Bibliography of Atkinson writing as Yogi Ramacharaka

• The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath (A Consummate Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Evolution). 1903.
• Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism. 1904.
• Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism. 1905.
• Hatha Yoga or the Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being (With Numerous Exercises, Etc.) 1904.
• The Science of Psychic Healing. 1906.
• Raja Yoga or Mental Development (A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga). 1906.
• Gnani Yoga (A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga). 1907.
• The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of Republic of india. 1909.
• Mystic Christianity or The Teachings of the Principal. 1908.
• The Life Across Death. 1909.
• The Applied Water Cure (As Practiced in India and Other Oriental Countries). 1909.
• The Spirit of the Upanishads or the Aphorisms of the Wise. 1907.
• Bhagavad Gita or The Bulletin of the Master. 1907.

Bibliography of Atkinson writing as Swami Bhakta Vishita

• Can We Talk to Spirit Friends?
• Clairvoyance and Kindred Phenomena.
• Clairvoyance: By, Present and Futurity.
• Crystal Seering by Seers of All Ages. (Pamphlet)
• The Evolution of Seership: The Science of Knowing the Future; Hindoo and Oriental Methods". Advanced Thought Publishing Co. Chicago. 1915 (1 of ii Actual Books)
• The Difference Between a Seer and a Medium. (Pamphlet)
• The Future Development of Humanity.
• Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers. Advanced Idea Publishing Co. Chicago. 1910 (1 of 2 Actual Books)
• Ghosts of the Living, End of the Expressionless.
• The Great Universe Beyond and Immortality.
• The College Existence Adult by Seership.
• Higher Spirit Manifestations.
• How Is Information technology Possible to Foretell the Future? (Pamphlet)
• How Seership Develops a Constructive Life.
• How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
• How to Cross the Threshold of the Super Globe.
• How to Develop Mediumship.
• How to Develop Psychic Telepathy.
• How to Distinguish Real Seership from Unreal. (Pamphlet)
• How to Gain Personal Noesis of the Higher Truths of Seership.
• How to Go Into the Silence: The Key of All Life. (Pamphlet)
• How to Interpret the Nowadays and Future Exactly as They Are Designed to Be.
• Mediumship.
• Mental Vibrations and Transmission.
• The Mystic Sixth Sense.
• Nature'southward Finer Forces.
• Seership and the Spiritual Evolution of Man.
• Seership, a Practical Guide to Those Who Aspire to Develop the College Senses.
• Seership, the Science of Knowing the Futurity.
• The Spiritual Laws Governing Seership.
• Thought Transference.
• What Determines a Man's Birth in a Sure Environment? (Pamphlet)

Bibliography of Atkinson writing as Swami Panchadasi

• Clairvoyance and Occult Powers. 1916.
• The Human Aura:Astral Colors and Thought Forms. 1912. (Outlines his interpretation of the pregnant of the diverse colors of the human aura)
• The Astral World. Advanced Idea Publishing Co. Chicago. 1915.

Bibliography of Atkinson writing equally Theron Q. Dumont

• The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination. Advanced Thought Publishing Co. Chicago. 1913.
• The Avant-garde Course in Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination. Advanced Thought Publishing Co. Chicago. 1914.
• The Psychology of Personal Magnetism. (This version is copy of Advanced Course in Personal Magnetism)
• The Master Heed or The Cardinal To Mental Power Development And Efficiency.
• Mental Therapeutics, or Just How to Heal Oneself and Others. Advanced Idea Publishing Co. Chicago. 1916.
• The Power of Concentration. Avant-garde Idea Publishing Co. Chicago. 1918.
• Applied Memory Preparation. Advanced Idea Publishing Co. Chicago.
• The Solar Plexus or Abdominal Brain.
• Successful Salesmanship.
• The Homo Machine. (Arnold Bennett, not Atkinson)

Bibliography of Theodore Sheldon (possibly an Atkinson pseudonym)

• Vim Culture.

Bibliography of "Three Initiates" (possibly an Atkinson pseudonym)

• The Kybalion Yogi Publication Society. 1908.

Bibliography of Atkinson writing as Magus Incognito

• The Secret Doctrines of the Rosicrucians.

Bibliography of Atkinson writing with co-authors

• W. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume I: Personal Power
• W. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume Two: Artistic Ability
• Westward. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume III: Desire Power
• W. Due west. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume IV: Religion Ability: Your Inspirational Forces.
• W. Westward. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume V: Will Ability
• Due west. Westward. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume 6: Hidden Power
• Due west. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume 7: Spiritual Power
• W. Due west. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume 8: Thought Power
• Due west. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Ability Volume IX: Perceptive Power
• West. Due west. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Ability Volume Ten: Reasoning Power
• West. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume XI: Character Power
• Westward. W. Atkinson and Edward Beals. Personal Power Volume XII: Regenerative Power or Vital Rejuvenation.
• West. Westward. Atkinson and L. W. De Laurence. Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing.

Bibliography of bearding works attributed to Atkinson

• The Arcane Teachings. Chicago. due north.p., northward.d. [presumed 1st edition prior to 1909]; McClurg, 1909.
• The Arcane Teachings: Gratuitous Sample Lesson. Chicago. McClurg, 1909.
• The Arcane Formulas, or Mental Alchemy. Chicago. McClurg, 1909; McClurg, 1911.
• The Mystery of Sex, or Sex Polarity. Chicago. McClurg, 1909; McClurg, 1911.
• Vril, or Vital Magnetism The Secret Doctrine of Ancient Atlantis, Egypt, Chaldea, and Greece. Chicago. McClurg, 1909; McClurg, 1911.
• The One and the Many. Chicago. McClurg, 1911.
• Cosmic Law. Chicago. McClurg, 1911.
• The Psychic Planes. Chicago. McClurg, 1911.

References [edit]

1. ^ Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, The Angelic Tradition, p. 66, Wilfrid Laurier Academy Printing, 1992 ISBN 978-0-88920-202-three
2. ^ Works past Atkinson, William Walker 1862-1932 (WorldCat).
3. ^ Works past Ramacharaka Yogi 1862-1932 (WorldCat).
4. ^ "William Walker Atkinson." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. Gale Group, 2001.
5. ^ Jackson, Carl T. (1975). "The New Thought Movement and the Nineteenth Century Discovery of Oriental Philosophy". The Journal of Popular Culture. ix (iii) (three): 523–548. doi:x.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0903_523.x.
6. ^ Deveney, John Patrick; Franklin Rosemont (1996). Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sexual practice Magician. State University of New York Press. ISBN0-7914-3120-7.
7. ^ "Author'south Work". Circulo de Estudos Ramacháraca. Retrieved September xix, 2012.

External links [edit]

• Works by William Walker Atkinson at Projection Gutenberg
• Works by Theron Q. Dumont at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or almost William Walker Atkinson at Net Archive
• Works by or well-nigh Theron Q. Dumont at Net Archive
• Works by or about Yogi Ramacharaka at Cyberspace Archive
• Works by William Walker Atkinson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Who was Yogi Ramacharaka?
• Círculo de Estudos Ramacharaca
• Who was William Walker Atkinson
• 1925 Alphabetic character from Theodore Sheldon to Florence Sabin
• Swami Panchadasi material in the S Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

Books by William Walker Atkinson available gratis online [edit]

• Thought Vibration or the Law of Allure in the Thought World past William Walker Atkinson - gratuitous online edition
• Practical Mental Influence past William Walker Atkinson - free online edition
• Practical Mind Reading by William Walker Atkinson - free online edition
• The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism past Theron Q. Dumont gratuitous online edition
• Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka complimentary online edition
• The Hindu-Yogi Science of Jiff past Yogi Ramacharaka— Read Online
• The Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka costless online edition
• Gnani Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka— Read Online
• Hatha Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka costless online edition
• Raja Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka— Read Online
• Upasika: Texts in Castilian
• The Kybalion Resource Page - features online versions of The Kybalion
• The Arcane Teaching

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