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
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[Collection of alchemical treatises]
Johannes de Garlandia
1750Latin
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Ein nützliches vnd tröstlichs Regiment wider die Pestilentz, vnd gifftig pestilentzisch Feber, die Schweissucht genant, vnnd sonst mancherley gifftige vnnd tödtliche Kranckheit
Kaspar Kegeler
1568German
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Les clavicules de Salomon
King of Israel Solomon
1700French
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Mutus liber,
Isaac Baulot
1702Latin
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The lure and romance of alchemy
C. J. S. Thompson
1932
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Saturnia regna
Huginus a Barma
1657
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Awakening to the Real
Zhang Boduan
1075
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Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy
William Netter, Hermann Peters
1899
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An ADDRESS to the True Members of the New Jerusalem Church, revealed by the Lord in the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, who sincerely wish to separate themselves both internally and externally from the Old Church
August Nordenskjöld
1789
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Gebri Arabis chimia, sive, Traditio summae perfectionis et investigatio magisterii innumeris locis
Henry Carrington Bolton, Geber, Caspar Horn, Georg Horn, Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān
1668Latin
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St. Leon
William Godwin
1799
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[Universalis alchymiae compendium]
Jean-Jacques Manget
1700French
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Mercurii zweyfacher Schlangen-Stab
Paracelsus
1679German
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The Birth of Chemistry
George Farrer Rodwell
1874
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Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
2024German
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The Alchemy of Happiness
Ghazālī al-Ghazzālī
1873
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The alchemy of happiness, tr. from the Turk. [abridgement] by H.A. Homes
Abû Ḥâmid Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ghazzâlî
1873
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[Alchemical compilation]
Ibrāhīm Ḥusaynī
1496Arabic
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Liber mirabilium
Trismegistus Hermes
1452Latin
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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, circa 1500-1825
Sigismond Bacstrom, Böhme, Jakob, Alessandro Cagliostro, Manly Manly Palmer Hall, Michael Maier, George Ripley
1500Multiple languages
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Mellon MS 39, Testamentum
Ramon Llull
1560Latin
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Discours admirables de la nature des eaux et fonteines
Bernard Palissy
1580French
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L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, siue, Lusus asini libri XI
Apuleius
1521Ancient Greek
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Epistola de lapide philosophorum, 1559
Milanutius Podius
1559Latin