Maria L. Berg created 2 poems from The Kybalion by Three Initiates (1912 edition). Please click here to read “Every Cause Has Its Effect” and here to read “Let Us Seek This Truth.”

About the poems and the process of composing them, Maria L. Berg writes:

Each year I choose an area of personal study to explore and share on my website ExperienceWriting.com. This year I focused on the many definitions and understandings of “depth.” When I read that I would need to come up with my own text this year for Heron Tree‘s theme of twelve, I searched for best-selling books from 1912 about depth and found The Kybalion by Three Initiates. The Kybalion‘s subtitle is: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. It presents and explains the seven Hermetic Principles as “The Truth” for students of the Secret Doctrines. The process of finding poems within the text that both expressed depth and the theme of twelve led me to search for concrete sensory details within all of the text’s abstract concepts. From the details I did find, I formed lines of twelve syllables and organized them into poems of twelve lines.

These poems reflect our invitation to poets, on the occasion of our twelfth volume, to use 12 in some way in their work.

Also by Maria L. Berg at Heron Tree: Repent, And risk being infinitely happy forever, and The Vividness of Actuality.

And a quick note: We’re taking a pause from posting for the rest of December, but we’ll be back on the evening of January 7th with a new poem for the new year.