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
Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad
Frances A. Yates
2014
Hermetic fictions : alchemy and irony in the modern novel
David Meakin
1995
Hermeticism and the Renaissance : intellectual history and the occult in early modern Europe
Ingrid Merkel, Allen G. Debus
1988
Hermeticism and the scientific revolution
Robert S. Westman, J. E. McGuire
1977
Intellectual cantilenae in nine triads upon the resurrection of the Phoenix
Michael Maier
1997
John Dee's conversations with angels
Deborah E Harkness
1999
Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447 1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, R. Bouthoorn
2005
Love's alchemy
Mary Christine Boorkman
1914
Metallographia: or, an history of metals
John Webster
1671
Michael Sendivogius the Polish alchemist (1556-1636)
Emilian Ostachowski
1954
Microbial Alchemy
2026
Modern alchemy
Dorothy Fisk
1936
Mystical developments of alchemy
William Jerome Wilson
1942
Patrick White and Alchemy
James Bulman-May
2001
Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education
Bill Marsh
2007
Reflections from alchemy to astrophysics
1996
The Alchemy of Conquest
Ralph Bauer
2019
The Alchemy of Empire
Rajani Sudan
2016
The Alchemy of Meth
Jason Pine
2019
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism
Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John Patrick Deveney
1995
The Hermetic Logos: The Hermetic Literature from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity
Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel Pereira
2011
The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim called Paracelsus the Great
Paracelse
1894
The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus the Great
Arthur Edward Waite
2010
The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Three Initiates
1908