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
Paths of wisdom
John Michael Greer
1996
Psychologie der Uebertragung
Carl Gustav Jung
1969
Psychologie und Alchemie
Carl Gustav Jung
1944
Qabalah Bk. II
Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1994
Quicksilver
Callie Hart
2024
Reading the signs
Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, Joachim Kurtz
2018Chinese
Ritual use of magical tools
Chic Cicero
2000
Robert Fludd
Joscelyn Godwin
2013
Secret societies and the hermetic code
Ernesto Frers
2008
Secrets of a Golden Dawn temple
Chic Cicero
1992
Secrets of the alchemists
Time-Life Books
1990
Self-initiation into the Golden Dawn tradition
Chic Cicero, Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1995
Sorcerer's Stone
Dennis William Hauck
2004
Spaccio de la bestia trionfante
Giordano Bruno, Artemide Libri, Arthur D. Imerti, Karen Silvia de Leon-Jones, Hilary Gatti
1584
Spiritual Alchemy
Jenny Tyson, Donald Tyson
2016
Swerve
Rowland Saifi, Vincent James, McCormick Templeman
2021
Teachings of the Winged Disk
Phaedron
1996
The "Four books" of Pseudo-Democritus
Matteo Martelli
2017
The Alchemists' Council
Cynthea Masson
2016
The Book of Solomon's Magick
Carroll Runyon
1996
The Chemical wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
Christian Rosencreutz
1991
The Complete Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscript
Darcy Kuntz
1996
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy
Dennis William Hauck
2008
The Emerald Tablet
P. J. Hoover
2008