Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
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- 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
Love's alchemy
Mary Christine Boorkman
1914
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The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism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
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