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'''William Walker Atkinson''' ([[Month Day]], [[1862]] – [[Month Day]], -[[1932]]) was an attorney, merchant, author, as well as being an [[United States|American]] occultist and an American pioneer of the [[New Thought]] movement. He was responsible for publishing the magazines "Suggestion" (1900-1901), "New Thought" (1901-1905) and "Advanced Thought" (1906), in Chicago. Considered by the people of India as an authority in the subject, he was devoted to the diffusion of Yoga and of Oriental Occultism in the West. He contributed to the development of Occult Psychology and New Thought, especially with regard to the mental world and its relationship to man's spiritual reality.

Atkinson published under several noms de plume in addition to his given name including, [[Magus Incognito]], [[Theodore Sheldon]], [[Theron Q. Dumont]], [[Swami Pachandasi]], The Three Initiates in collaboration with [[Mabel Collins]] and [[Paul Foster Case]], and most prominently as [[Ramacharaka]].

== Atkinson's Writingswritings ==

== Atkinson's Writings ==

According to the [[CER]] (Circulo de Estudos Ramacháraca), Atkinson has been identified as the author or co-author (with individuals such as [[Edward E. Beals]], [[Laurion William De Laurence]], Paul Foster Case, and Mabel Collins) to 105 titles. These can be broken down roughly into the following three groups:

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These works treat themes related with the mental world, the psychic reality and man's inferior and superior nature. They constitute a basis for what he called "[[New Psychology]]" or "New Thought".

== Ramacharaka Titlestitles ==

== Ramacharaka Titles ==

The works of Yogi Ramacharaka were published over the course of nearly ten years beginning in 1903. Some were originally issued as a series of correspondence courses at the frequency of one lesson per month. Upon the completion of each year of coursework the lessons were subsequently collected and published as individual volumes. Additional material was issued at each interval in the form of supplementary textbooks.

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of the New Thought movement named William Walker Atkinson, in collaboration with an Indian disciple Baba Bharata and attributed authorship in honor of their source, Bharata's guru Yogi Ramacharaka. This situation is highly unlikely, however. Atkinson wrote dozens of books under several aliases and covering a variety of esoteric subjects including [[Mental Science]], [[Alchemy]], [[Rosicrucianism]], and [[Yoga]]. Like the adoption of local religions practiced by the Gnostics, who perpetuated a consistent inner teaching under a variety of external forms, so did Atkinson utilize these various subjects as vehicles for a singular body of Occult Philosophy that may be characterized as strongly Theosophical in nature and intention.

== Paul Foster Casecase and [[The Kyballion]] ==

Ostensibly written by 'Three Initiates,' The Kyballion is published by the Yogi Publication Society.