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
The St. Andrews Arabic Alchemy MS. [From the journal of the St. Andrews University Chemical Society, April 1951.)
Douglas Morton Dunlop
1951
The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
John Maxson Stillman
1979
The Tarot
Mouni Sadhu
1962
The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism
Mouni Sadhu
1971
The alchemical engravings of Mylius
Johann Daniel Mylius
1984
The alchemy murder
Peter Oldfield
1929
The alchemy of English
Braj Β. Kachru
1986
The alchemy of hapiness
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Ḥāmid al- Ġazālī
1910
The eternal Hermes : from Greek god to alchemical magus
Antoine Faivre, Joscelyn Godwin
1995
The foundations of Newton's alchemy
B. J. T. Dobbs
1976
The hermetic and alchemical writings of Paracelsus the Great
Paracelsus, Arthur Edward Waite
1992
The hermetic gnosis
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, F. van Lamoen, Ritman Library
1988
The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim
Franz Hartmann
1896
The role of alchemy and medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism
Michael L Walter, Indiana University
1980
The secret teachings of all ages : an encyclopedic outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian symbolical philosophy : being an interpretation of the secret teachings concealed within the rituals, allegories and mysteries of all ages
Manly Palmer Hall
1988
The time of the lily
Lucinda Martin, Claudia Brink
2024
The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross
John Heydon, Frederick Talbot
1664
Transfigured light: philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary
Leon Marvell
2007
Urban Alchemy
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
2013
"Alchymistische Kunst-Stücke in gutter Ordnungk"
Birte Camen
2018
"Die Geheimnisse, mit welchem die Sapientes das Mysterium unserer secretae philosophiae occultirt haben, werden uns als den offenbar seyn."
Sarah Anabel Lang
2019
"Mit diesem einzigartigen Mittel wirst du, Österreich, über die übrigen Länder herrschen!"
Elisabeth Tauschitz
2019
"Una filosofica milizia"
Saverio Ricci
1994Italian
"Wie men ein Kupffer Ertz auff Kupfferstein probirn soll" - Die chemische Probierkunst und ihre Sprache
Roger Alberto
2012German