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 Alchemical Body
David Gordon White
1996
The alchemy of revolution
David W Mulder
1990
The death of Merlin
Walter Johannes Stein
1989
The devil's doctor
Philip Ball
2006
Compass of the wise
Adam Michael Birkholz
1990
Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Hermes Trismegistus
2011
Golden Dawn
Israel Regardie, John Michael Greer
2016
Hermetica
Hermes Trismegistus, Walter Scott
1982
Hidden Truths
Lawrence E. Sullivan
1989
Jean d'Espagnet's the Summary of Physics Restored
Thomas Willard
2018
Kybalion
The Three The Three Initiates, Mitch Horowitz
2014
Kybalion - a Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Three Initiates
2009
The virgin of the world
Hermes Trismegistus, E. M. Maitland, Anna Bonus Kingsford
1885
The way of the crucible
Robert Allen Bartlett
2009
Thrice Great Hermetica and the Janus Age
Joseph P. Farrell
2014
33 Alchemistinnen
Jette Anders
2016German
Abhandlung über den Stein der Weisen
Thomas, Gustav Meyrink
1925German
Alchemie
Helmut Gebelein
1996German
Alchemie
Claus Priesner, Karin Figala
1998German
Alchemie
Harald Meller, Alfred Reichenberger, Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich, Maria Albrecht
2016German
Alchemie & Mystik
Alexander Roob
2009German
Alchemie und Kabbala
Gershom Scholem
1994German
Alchemie – Magie oder Naturwissenschaft?
Michael Bischoff, Heiner Borggrefe, Vera Lüpkes, Michael Zelle
2022German
Das "Kitāb Sidrat al-muntahā" des Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya
Pseudo-Ibn-Waḥšīya, Christopher Braun, Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAlī Ibn-Waḥšīya
2016Arabic