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
Kouzelník z Londýna
Ivan Sviták
1994Czech
Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Christopher Partridge
2018
Sir Edward Kelley
Ivan Sviták
1994Czech
The Occult in Early Modern Europe
1999
Walter Benjamin's Other History
Beatrice Hanssen
1998
鋼の錬金術師 5 それぞれの絆
Makoto Inoue
2007
By Happy Alchemy of Mind
Dominic McIver Lopes
2018
Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge
Kocku von Stuckrad
2005
English Translation of Basilius Valentinus — Chymische Schriften (Hamburg, 1694)
Basilius Valentinus, Source Library, Google Gemini
2026
English Translation of The Origin of Medicine
Jan Baptist van Helmont, Source Library, Google Gemini
2026
2. Nuclear alchemy
Frank Close
2015
Daughters of Alchemy
Meredith K. Ray
2015
The Hermetic Deleuze
Joshua Ramey
2012
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
Charles Simic
1992
Stone Junction : An Alchemical Potboiler
Jim Dodge
1990
Modern Alchemy
Glenn T. Seaborg
1994
Encyclopedia of the unexplained;: Magic, occultism and parapsychology
Richard Cavendish, J. B. Rhine
1974
Astrology in the Renaissance : the zodiac of life
Eugenio Garin
1983
- Read free
Alquimia del dolor
Charles Baudelaire
1861French
Stanza My Stone: Wallace Stevens and the Hermetic Tradition
Leonora Woodman
1983
A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment
2025
Fremstilling af kemiens historie af Th. Hiortdahl
Th Hiortdahl
1906Norwegian (Bokmål)
Le grand éclaircissement de la pierre philosophale
Nicolas Flamel
1782French
Lékařsko-chymické a alchymické orákulum
1995Czech