Tradition 01 of 33
Occultism and esotericism
General occult sciences, esoteric traditions, hidden knowledge, and surveys of the supernatural.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,478
- Earliest
- 1291
- to 2026
- Read free
- 30%
- 446 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,116
- Metadata match341
- Query match13
- Source classification (retained through merging)8
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
- Occultism416
- History255
- Social Sciences199
- Philosophy197
- Arts and Humanities172
- Art130
- Okkultismus122
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices111
- Occult sciences107
- Occultisme107
- Magic93
- Fiction92
- Supernatural92
- Literature85
- Psychology84
- Occult79
- Medicine76
- Text73
- Alchemy64
- Parapsychology61
- Early works to 180060
- Spiritualism59
- Non-fiction literature58
- Theosophy55
Top languages
- English968 · 65%
- German96 · 6%
- French79 · 5%
- Czech56 · 4%
- Italian46 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Amelia Febriany14 in this tradition25 books
- Aleister Crowley13 in this tradition26 books
- David Spangler11 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim10 in this tradition22 books
- Jens Schlieter10 in this tradition17 books
- Rudolf Steiner8 in this tradition153 books
- Lewis Spence8 in this tradition15 books
- Carl Du Prel8 in this tradition14 books
- Violet M. Firth8 in this tradition13 books
- Annie Besant7 in this tradition59 books
- William Walker Atkinson7 in this tradition22 books
- Éliphas Lévi7 in this tradition19 books
1,478 books
- Read free
The book of ceremonial magic
Arthur Edward Waite
1911
- Read free
The phantom world
Augustin Calmet
1746
- Read free
The secret doctrine
Елена Петровна Блаватская
1888
- Read free
The tarot of the Bohemians
Papus
1889
- Read free
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition
Frances Amelia Yates
1964
- Read free
Witchcraft, magic & alchemy
Grillot de Givry, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, J. Courtenay Locke
1931
- Read free
Cock Lane and Commonsense 1896
Andrew Lang, Harry Houdini Collection, Charles Godlove Raue
1889
- Read free
Zeugnisse des Okkulten
Kira Kaufmann
2025German
- Read free
Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, and Demonology
William Richard Harris
1919
- Read free
Okkultismus im Gehäuse. Institutionalisierungen der Parapsychologie im 20. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich
Anna Lux, Sylvia Paletschek
2016German
- Read free
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Andrew Lang
2011
- Read free
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
Annie Besant, Annie Wood Besant
1901
- Read free
A treatise of specters, or, Straunge sights, visions, and apparitions appearing sensibly vnto men
Pierre le Loyer, Thomas Pennant Barton, Queen Catherine de Medicis, King of England James I, Zachary Jones, Matthew Lownes, Valentine Simmes
1605
- Read free
August Strindberg: The Occult Diary
Gunnel Engwall, Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, Per Stam
2022
- Read free
Esotericism in East Asia
Chienhui Chuang, Sangyun Han, Julian Strube
2026
- Read free
Hyposubjects
Dominic Boyer, Timothy Morton
2021
- Read free
Metaphysical Poems
Jerzy Fiećko, Adam Mickiewicz, Mateusz Stróżyński
2023
- Read free
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Marinos Sariyannis
2025
- Read free
Philosophical Perspectives on Esotericism
Olli Pitkänen
2025
- Read free
Talking it Through
Richard Eves, Miranda Forsyth
2015
- Read free
The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Pao-chen Tang
2025
- Read free
The Assemblies of God
John C Green, Margaret M Poloma
2010
- Read free
The Chain of Things
Eric Downing
2018
- Read free
The inner life
Charles Webster Leadbeater
1910