Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,793
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 65%
- 1,814 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,768
- Metadata match131
- Query match893
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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
- Alchemy538
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)227
- History174
- Alchemie140
- Early works to 1800139
- Alchimie125
- Occultism122
- Social Sciences110
- Philosophy105
- Art97
- Arts and Humanities86
- Hermetism86
- Chemistry84
- Literature68
- Magic62
- Medicine53
- Archeology50
- Text50
- Art history46
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies46
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices44
- Alquimia42
- Hermeticism41
- Alchemia39
Top languages
- German812 · 29%
- English626 · 22%
- Latin426 · 15%
- NOT345 · 12%
- French192 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus243 in this tradition252 books
- Trismegistus Hermes58 in this tradition62 books
- Basilius Valentinus27 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer25 books
- Michael Maier24 in this tradition28 books
- Raimundus Lullus21 in this tradition24 books
- Gerhard Dorn17 in this tradition19 books
- Pierre-Jean Fabre16 books
- Carl Gustav Jung14 in this tradition32 books
- George Starkey14 books
- Johann Rudolph Glauber13 in this tradition14 books
- Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān12 in this tradition13 books
2,793 books
Alchemy and medicine in the Middle Ages
Chiara Crisciani
1996
Alchemy and metallic medicines in Āyurveda
Vaidya Bhagwan Dash
1986
Alchemy and pyramids
Joseph Davidovits
1983
Alchemy and sacred geography in the Medieval Deccan
Arion Roșu
1992
Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the seventeenth century
Martha R Baldwin
1993
Alchemy and the historian of science
Allen G. Debus
1967
Alchemy during the first half of the sixteenth century
Lynn Thorndike
1938
Alchemy in the nineteenth century
Helena P. Blavatsky
1891
Alchemy under James IV of Scotland
John Read
1938
Alchemy, magic and miracles in the Napolitan medical culture in the Aragonise age (1442-1502)
Gianni Iacovelli
1983
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology
Marie-Louise von Franz
1980
Alquimia
2005
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
Diane Ackerman
2004
An encyclopaedia of occultism : a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism, mysticism, and metaphysics.
Lewis Spence
1974
Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica
2000
Bibliotheca chemica
Royal College of Science and Technology. Andersonian Library
1906
Chemistry, alchemy and the new philosophy, 1550 - 1700
Allen G. Debus
1987
Das 21. Jahrhundert
Thomas Kellein
1993
De Vega's formula X
De Vega
1927
Doctor Heinrich Khunrath
James Brown Craven
1997
Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
Tara Bennett-Goleman
2001
Fakes!?
Marco Beretta, Maria Conforti
2014
From Alchemy to Chemistry
John Read
2011
From Alchemy to IPO
Cynthia Robbins-Roth
2000