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
- 2,464
- Earliest
- 1200
- to 2026
- Read free
- 42%
- 1,032 with public full text
- With covers
- 54%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,943
- Metadata match471
- Query match41
- Source classification (retained through merging)9
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Key subjects
- occultism1K
- History316
- Early works to 1800262
- Philosophy224
- Magic201
- Social Sciences200
- Arts and Humanities173
- Early works to 1900159
- Occultisme139
- Supernatural132
- Art131
- Spiritualism131
- Alchemy130
- Occult sciences129
- Okkultismus122
- Fiction112
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices112
- Astrology107
- Occult104
- Medicine101
- Psychology91
- Literature90
- Mysticism90
- Parapsychology89
Top languages
- English1,410 · 57%
- French255 · 10%
- German204 · 8%
- Latin168 · 7%
- Italian71 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim27 in this tradition46 books
- Joanna Southcott23 in this tradition53 books
- Paracelsus22 in this tradition292 books
- Trismegistus Hermes18 in this tradition89 books
- Levinus Lemnius17 in this tradition35 books
- Papus15 in this tradition24 books
- Amelia Febriany14 in this tradition25 books
- Aleister Crowley13 in this tradition26 books
- Éliphas Lévi12 in this tradition25 books
- Iamblichus12 in this tradition17 books
- Arthur Edward Waite11 in this tradition51 books
- David Spangler11 books
2,464 books
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Don Ferdinand Sterzingers Bemühung den Aberglaube zu stürzen
Ferdinand Sterzinger, Andrew Dickson White
1785German
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Mellon MS 24, Alchemical miscellany
1505Italian
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Mellon MS 5, Alchemical miscellany
1400Latin
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Archidoxorvm Avreoli Ph. Theophrasti Paracelci de secretis natvrae mysteriis libri decem ... His accesserunt libri: De tinctura physicorum. De praeparationibus. De vexationibus alchimistarum. De cementis metallorum, et De gradationibus eorundem. Singula per Gerardum Dorn è germanico sermone latinitati nuperrimè donata
Gerhard Dorn
1570Latin
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Hieronymi Castellonei Cardani Medici Mediolanensis. De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus ... Eiusdem libellus de simplicium medicinarium noxa
Johann Georg Wirsung
1536Latin
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Mellon MS 20, Alchemical compilation
1490German
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Mellon MS 35, Alchemical miscellany
1550Italian
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Dictionnaire infernal, ou, Recherches et anecdotes, sur les démons, les esprits, les fantômes, les spectres, les revenants, les loup-garoux, les possédés, les sorciers, le Sabbat, les magiciens, les salamandres, les sylphes, les gnomes, etc; les visions, les songes, les prodiges, les charmes, les maléfices, les secrets merveilleux, les talismans, etc.; en un mot, sur tout ce qui tient aux apparitions, à la magie, au commerce de l'enfer, aux divinations, aux sciences secrètes, aux superstitions, aux choses mystérieuses et surnaturelles, etc. etc., etc
J.-A.-Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy
1818French
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Essais de sciences mandites
Stanislas de Guaita
1891French
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Hādhā kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār
Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336
1291Arabic
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Jamblichus De mysteriis Ægyptiorum, Chaldæorum, Assyriorum. Proclus in Platonicum Alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone. Idem de sacrificio et magia. Porphyrius de divinis atque dæmonibus. Psellus de dæmonibus. Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Ejusdem Asclepius
Marsilio Ficino
1570Latin
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Samlungen von Briefen und Aufsätzen über die Gassnerischen und Schröpferischen Geisterbeschwörungen
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature, Joh. Salomo Semler
1776German
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Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif
Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt al-kawākib, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml, Adʹhamī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, -1907 or 1908. Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-buruj, Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
1345Arabic
Aspects of occultism
Violet M. Firth, Dion Fortune
1973
Astral dynamics
Robert Bruce
1999
Qabbalistic magic
Salomo Baal-Shem
2011
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Chemical observations
1750
Ghosts and Things
Aviva Briefel
2025
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Jewish Magic and Supersitition
Joshua Trachtenberg
2025
Light on the Path
Mark S Morrisson
2025
Recycled Lives
Julie Chajes
2019
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The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy
Liana Saif
2015
The Black Arts
Richard Cavendish
1967
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The Theatre of the Occult Revival
Edmund B. Lingan
2014