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
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Hermes Trismegistus
2013
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean
M Doreal
1996
The Kybalion
Three Initiates
1912
The Occult Book
John Michael Greer
2017
The Primal Hunter
Zogarth
2022
The Sweet Story of Chemistry Dreams From Alchemy to Orbital
Pourya Zarshenas
2022
The Widow Ching Pirate [5 stories]
Jorge Luis Borges
2011
The Zhong-Lü system of internal alchemy
Livia Kohn
2020Chinese
The alchymist's journal
Evan S. Connell
1991
The arts of the alchemists
Cottie Arthur Burland
1967
The book of Alchemy
Francis Melville
2002
The chemical choir
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
2008
The emerald tablet
Dennis William Hauck
1999
The golden game
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
1988
The hermetic tradition
Julius Evola
1995
The hermetica
Timothy Freke
1999
The lamp of marvels
Ramón del Valle Inclán
1986
The magicians of the Golden Dawn
Ellic Howe
1972
The modern alchemist
Richard Alan Miller
1994
The origins of alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Jack Lindsay
1970
The philosophy of magic
Arthur Versluis
1986
The pillar of celestial fire
Robert Cox
1997
The ritual magic manual
David Griffin, David J. Griffin
1999
The science of love
John Baines
1993