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
Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot
Robert Wang
1978
John Dee's Natural Philosophy
Nicholas H. Clulee
1988
Jung and twentieth century psychological astrology
Laura Andrikopoulos
2025
Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation
Lyam Thomas Christopher
2006
Knowledge Alchemy
Meng-Hsuan Chou, Niilo Kauppi, Tero Erkkilä
2023
Konx Om Pax
Aleister Crowley
1982
Kybalion
Three Initiates Staff
2010
La cabala del cavallo Pegaseo
Giordano Bruno, Sidney L. Sondergard, Madison U. Sowell, Miguel Angel Granada Martínez
1864
Laboratories of art
Sven Dupré
2014
Life is real only then, when "I am"
Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
1975
Marcel Duchamp and the art of life
Jacquelynn Baas
2019
Meditations on the tarot
Robert Powell
2002
Metal Magic
Mellie Uyldert
1980
Metallographia
John Webster
1671
Mysterium coniunctionis
Carl Gustav Jung
1955
Nature Word
René-Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz
1982
Newton the alchemist
William R Newman
2019
Nightside of the Runes
Thomas Karlsson
2019
Occult Features of Anarchism
Erica Lagalisse
2018
Oil of Sulphur
George Starkey
1984
On Becoming an Alchemist
Catherine Maccoun
2008
On the composition of images, signs & ideas
Giordano Bruno
1991
Paracelsus
Bruce T Moran
2019
Path of Alchemy
Mark Stavish
2006