Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,793
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 65%
- 1,814 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,768
- Metadata match131
- Query match893
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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
- Alchemy538
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)227
- History174
- Alchemie140
- Early works to 1800139
- Alchimie125
- Occultism122
- Social Sciences110
- Philosophy105
- Art97
- Arts and Humanities86
- Hermetism86
- Chemistry84
- Literature68
- Magic62
- Medicine53
- Archeology50
- Text50
- Art history46
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies46
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices44
- Alquimia42
- Hermeticism41
- Alchemia39
Top languages
- German812 · 29%
- English626 · 22%
- Latin426 · 15%
- NOT345 · 12%
- French192 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus243 in this tradition252 books
- Trismegistus Hermes58 in this tradition62 books
- Basilius Valentinus27 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer25 books
- Michael Maier24 in this tradition28 books
- Raimundus Lullus21 in this tradition24 books
- Gerhard Dorn17 in this tradition19 books
- Pierre-Jean Fabre16 books
- Carl Gustav Jung14 in this tradition32 books
- George Starkey14 books
- Johann Rudolph Glauber13 in this tradition14 books
- Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān12 in this tradition13 books
2,793 books
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Bygone Beliefs
H. Stanley Redgrove
1920

Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies
Jennifer N. Wunder
2008
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[Collection of alchemical treatises]
Johannes de Garlandia
1750Latin
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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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Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of the spirits of the planets. Of occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack.
Paracelsus, Robert Turner
1656
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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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[Universalis alchymiae compendium]
Jean-Jacques Manget
1700French
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Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
2024German
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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825
Sigismond Bacstrom, Jakob Böhme, Alessandro Cagliostro, Manly Manly Palmer Hall, Michael Maier, George Ripley
1600Multiple languages
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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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L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, siue, Lusus asini libri XI
Apuleius
1521Ancient Greek
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Epistola de lapide philosophorum, 1559
Milanutius Podius
1559Latin
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Fragment of the Picatrix.
1300Latin
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Livre de raison
1600French
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Secreta secretorum
1486Latin

The occult, witchcraft & magic
Christopher Dell
2016
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The works of Geber : the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher
Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān, Richard Russel
1678
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Theatrum chemicum, præcipuos selectorum auctorum tractatus de chemiæ et lapidis philosohici antiquitate, veritate, jure, præstantia, & operationibus, continens: in gratiam veræ chemiæ, & medicinæ chemicæ studiosorum (ut qui uberrimam inde optimorum remediorum messem facere poterunt) congestum, & in sex partes seu volumina digestum; singulis voluminibus suo auctorum et librorum catalogo primis pagellis: rerum verò & verborum indice postremis annexo ...
Johann Jacob Heilmann
1659
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[Collection of alchemical works on distillation and fermentation]
1750French
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Coelvm philosophorvm, sev, De secretis naturae liber
Philippus Ulstadius
1528Latin