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
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Mellon MS 19, Alchemical miscellany
1480French
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[Iatro-chemical and alchemical compendium]
1600French
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Abregé de la chimie ou l'on voit la nature des vegetaux, animaux, et mineraux entierement découverte
Pierre-Jean Fabre
1636French
Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic
Alison Butler
2011
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Alchemy, a symphonic poem,
Robert Hillyer
1920
Jung on alchemy
Carl Gustav Jung, Nathan Schwartz-Salant
1995
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Mellon MS 34, Alchemical miscellany
1550Italian
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Mellon MS 36, Alchemical miscellany
1550Italian
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Mental alchemy
B. Brown Williams
1854
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[Alchemical miscellany]
Nicolas Lémery
1675Italian
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FREEMASONS BIBLE
FREEMASON
1611
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Mellon MS 27, Alchemical miscellany
1520German
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Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the Hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language
1652
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Aurei velleris oder Der Guldin Schatz und Kunstkam[m]er tractatus II
Paracelsus
1598German
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Mellon MS 40, An untitled Kunstbuechlein
1562German
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[Majmūʼ al-ṣanāʼiʼ]
Producer not identified
1800Persian
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Deutsches theatrum chemicum, auf welchem der berühmtesten philosophen und alchymisten schrifften, die von dem stein der wiesen, von verwandlung der schlechten metalle in bassere, von kräutern, von thieren, von gesund- und sauerbrunnen, von warmen bädern, von herrlichen artzneyen und von ander grossen geheimnüssen der natur handeln, welche bisshero entweder niemahls gedruckt, oder doch sonsten sehr rar worden sind.
Friedrich Roth-Scholtz
1728German
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Liber mirabilium
Jeronimus de Sandei
1452Latin
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Theodori Kerckringii doctoris medici Commentarius in Currum triumphalem antimonii Basilii Valentini, à se latinitate donatum
Basilius Valentinus
1671Greek
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Beinecke MS 309, Alchemical texts
1600German
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Mellon MS 7, Alchemical miscellany
1440Latin
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Mellon MS 21, Alchemical miscellany
1490Italian
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Rasamañjarī
Śālinātha
1600Sanskrit
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[Final testament of Nicolas Flamel]
1750