Despite its claim to transmit the teaching of Hermes Trismegistus, The Kybalion is a product of the early-twentieth-century New Thought movement, and its seven principles are a modern synthesis rather than an ancient Hermetic text, though they draw on genuine Hermetic themes such as the doctrine of correspondence. The atlas notes this, treating the principles as an influential modern statement.
The entries give each principle its maxim and its meaning. The wider Hermetic literature the book claims to continue is treated under the esoteric-text category, within Texts & the Canon.