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
Novum lumen chimicum
Johann Rudolf Glauber, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Elizaeus Weyerstraten
1664Latin
Nuoua guida alla chimica
Carlo Lancillotti
1681Italian
Nuoua minera d'oro
Flavio Girolami
1590Italian
Okkulte Astrologie: Ein hermetischer Einblick
Iris A.I. Saage
2026German
Okkulte Versuchung
Hakan Baykal, Ansgar Bach
2025German
Olai Borrichii ... De ortu, et progressu chemiae, dissertatio
Ole Borch
1668Latin
Olai Borrichii De ortu et progressu chemiæ dissertatio
Ole Borch
1668Latin
Olivetum, das ist, Kunstbuch
Friedrich Helbach
1605German
On the elements
Marius
1976XXX
Opera omnia
Paracelsus, Milwaukee Academy of Medicine. Book Collection, Horace Manchester Brown Collection
1658Latin
Operis mineralis
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1651Latin
Opus aureum Arnaldi
Arnaldus de Villanova
1604German
Opus aureum D. Arnaldi de Villa Nova ...
Arnaldus de Villanova, Johann medicinae candidatus Lange
1604German
Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum
Georg von Welling
1735German
Opus tripartitum de philosophorum arcanis ...
Eirenaeus Philalethes, George Starkey
1678Latin
Opuscula quaedam chemica
George Ripley, frate Elia da Cortona, Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli, Joannes Pontanus, Artephius, Gallus Etschenreuter
1614Latin
Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum
Georg Ernst Stahl
1715Latin
Opvscvla chemica, das ist, Von dem gebenedeiten Stein der Weisen
Bernard of Trevisan
1605German
Osualdi Crolli veterani hassi basilica chymica continens philosophicam propriâ laborum experientiâ confirmatum descriptionem et usum remediorum chymicorum selectissimorum é lumine gratiae & naturae desumptorum
Oswald Croll
1609Latin
Oswaldi Crolii basilica chymica
Oswald Croll, Johann Hartmann
1643Latin
Ottonis Tachenii Antiquissim[a]e Hippocraticae medicinae clavis
Otto Tachenius
1671Latin
Ouroboros
Manfred Ehmer
2025German
Palladium spagyricum ...
Pierre-Jean Fabre
1624Latin
Pan-chymici sev Anatomiae totius universi
Pierre-Jean Fabre
1651Latin