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 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 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
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
"Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān: al-Kimīyāʾ wā-l maʿrifa al ʿilmīyah"
Nour Saber
2024
'Separatio puri ab impuro'
Urs Leo Gantenbein
1997German
... 'sonderliche hohe Künste und vortreffliche Geheimnis'
Hans-Georg Hofacker, Manfred Flad
1993German
AEsch mezareph o Fuego purificador
2000Spanish
Aesch Mezareph o Fuego purificador
1987Spanish
Alchemia
Zdzisław Zwoźniak
1978Polish
Alchemia Andreae Libauii ... operâ e dispersis passim optimorum autorum, veterum & recentium exemplis potissimum, tum etiam praeceptis quibusdam operosè collecta, adhibitisq[ue] ratione & experientia, quanta potuit esse, methodo accuratâ explicata
Andreas Libavius, Peter Kopf
1597Latin
Alchemiae Gebri Arabis philosophi solertissimi, libri, cum reliquis, ut uersa pagella indicabit
Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥ
1545Latin
Alchemie
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
1974German
Alchemie
Titus Burckhardt
1960German