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
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
- 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
Science and specters at Salem
Matt Goldish
2025
- Read free
The Archetypal Karen: Hillary Clinton as the Embodiment of White Liberal Academic Failure in the Neoliberal Grantocene
Mariia Panasiuk
2025
The book of yōkai
Michael Dylan Foster, Kijin Shinonome
2024
- Read free
Le portrait de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, Albert Savine
Date unknownFrench
Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer, Stephen Jay Gould
1997
- Read free
الزيج [الجديد]
Ibn al-Shāṭir, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm
1600Arabic
- Read free
The Black Flame: A Philosophy of Acausality
Denys Spirin
2026
The ghost finders
Adam McOmber
2021
Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
1988
Gazing at the mystery
Samael Aun Weor
2015
Temple Lectures of the Order of the Magi
Olney H. Richmond
1892
Aleister Crowley and Western esotericism
Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr, Wouter J. Hanegraaff
2012
Semilla del Diablo
Ira Levin
1900
- Read free
La divination et la science des présages chez les Chaldéens
François Lenormant
1875French
The Golden Dawn
Israel Regardie, John Michael Greer
1937
Applied magic
Violet M. Firth
1962
- Read free
Dictionnaire infernal, ou Répertoire universel des êtres, des personnages, des livres, des faits et des choses qui tiennent aux apparitions, à la magie, au commerce de l'enfer, aux démons, aux sorciers, aux sciences occultes... (3e édition entièrement refondue)
Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy
1844French
Linda Goodman's star signs
Linda Goodman
1987
- Read free
Histoire des sciences occultes depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours, par A. Debay
Auguste Debay
1860French
- Read free
A young man's story
Sarah Doudney
Date unknown
- Read free
Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, solius verae, christiano-kabalisticum, divino-magicum, nec non physico-chymicum tertriunum, catholicon
Heinrich Khunrath
1609Latin
Eye of the sh*t storm
Jackson Ford
2021
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Histoire musicale de la main, son rôle dans la notation, la tonalité, le rythme et l'exécution instrumentale ; la main des musiciens devant les sciences occultes, par Émile Gouget... [-Lettre de Camille Saint-Saéns.]
Camille Saint-Saëns, Émile Gouget
1898French
Ancestral Tarot
Nancy Hendrickson
2021