Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 4,074
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 2,499 with public full text
- With covers
- 67%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,013
- Metadata match182
- Query match873
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Alchemy1.6K
- Early works to 1800770
- History234
- Chemistry231
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)229
- occultism197
- Alchimie160
- Medicine150
- Alchemie141
- Philosophy120
- Social Sciences110
- Hermetism109
- Art101
- Magic97
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric91
- Arts and Humanities86
- Literature69
- Early works to 190062
- Rosicrucians57
- Astrology56
- Hermeticism51
- Text51
- Archeology50
- Art history46
Top languages
- German1,160 · 28%
- English882 · 22%
- Latin783 · 19%
- French392 · 10%
- NOT344 · 8%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus272 in this tradition292 books
- Trismegistus Hermes75 in this tradition89 books
- Basilius Valentinus49 in this tradition50 books
- Michael Maier48 in this tradition53 books
- University of Glasgow. Library39 in this tradition71 books
- Ramon Llull36 in this tradition42 books
- Johann Joachim Becher34 in this tradition35 books
- George Starkey33 in this tradition35 books
- Jābir ibn Ḥayyān32 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer29 books
- Johann Rudolf Glauber27 in this tradition30 books
- Roger Bacon27 in this tradition29 books
4,074 books
Alchemy, the ancient science
Neil Powell
1976
Anatomy of the psyche
Edward F. Edinger
1985
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Леонид Николаевич Андреев, John Aubrey, J. G. Ballard, Max Beerbohm, Ambrose Bierce, Ah'med Ech Chiruani, Léon Bloy, Delia Ingenieros, Ray Bradbury, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Martin Buber, Richard Francis Burton, Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Zhuangzi, Jean Cocteau, Julio Cortázar, Santiago Dabove, Alexandra David-Néel, Edward Dunsay, Macedonio Fernandez, James George Frazer, Elena Garro, Herbert Allen Giles, Nathaniel Hawthorne, I. A. Ireland, W. W. Jacobs, James Joyce, Don Juan Manuel, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Leopoldo Lugones, Arthur Machen, Walter De la Mare, Guy de Maupassant, Edwin Morgan, H. A. Murena, Niu Chiao, Giovanni Papini, Carlos Peralta, Barry Perowne, Petronius, Manuel Peyrou, Edgar Allan Poe, Pu Songling, François Rabelais, Saki, May Sinclair, Walter W. Skeat, Olaf Stapledon, Emanuel Swedenborg, Лев Толстой, B. Traven, Tsʻao, Hsüeh-chʻin, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Voltaire, Evelyn Waugh, Edward Lucas White, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Oscar Wilde, Richard Wilhelm, G. Willoughby-Meade, Mary Shelley, Wu Cheng'en, William Butler Yeats, Jose Zorilla
1940
Art of alchemy
David Brafman
2023
Blue and gold
K. J. Parker
2010
Circles of Power
John Michael Greer
1997
Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic
Israel Regardie
1984
Corpus Hermeticum
G. R. S. Mead
2008
Corpus hermeticum
Hermes Trismegistus
1945
Diana
Jorge de Montemayor
1580
Early modern fire
Gianenrico Bernasconi, Marco Storni
2025
Egyptian and Hermetic Doctrine (Opuscula Graecolatina)
Erik Iversen
1984
Franz Bardon
Gerhard Hanswille
1998
Franz Bardon
Dieter Rueggeberg
2008
Freemasonry
Mark Stavish
2007
Henry Vaughan and the Hermetic philosophy
Elizabeth Holmes
1932
Herbal Alchemy
Phillip Hurley
1977
Hermetic Magic
Stephen E. Flowers
1995
Hermetic Papers of A.E. Waite
Arthur Edward Waite
1987
Hermetic Science of Transformation
Giuliano Kremmerz
2019
Hermetic science of motion and number
A. S Raleigh
1981
Hermetica II
M. David Litwa
2018
Hermeticism and the Renaissance
Ingrid Merkel, Allen G. Debus
1988
Indian alchemy
Dagmar Wujastyk
2025