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
The Satanic Bible
Anton Szandor LaVey
1969
Witchcraft for Tomorrow
Doreen Valiente
1978
Magick
Aleister Crowley, Mary Desti, Leila Waddell
1973
Satanism
Robert Passantino, Bob Passantino, Alan W. Gomes
1995
Sunshine
Robin McKinley
2003
Wisdom of the Ancients
Lobsang Rampa
1965
Merrick
Anne Rice
2000
The book of the law, Liber al vel legis, with a facsimile of the manuscript as received by Aleister and Rose Edith Crowley on April 8,9,10, 1904 e.v.
Aleister Crowley, Rose Edith Crowley
2004
Satan is alive and well on planet earth
Hal Lindsey, Carole C. Carlson
1972
Demonology of king james - includes the original text of daemonologie and n
Donald Tyson
2011
Esoteric Secrets Of Surrealism
Patrick Lepetit
2014
Holy Kabbalah
A. E. Waite
2003
Lucid View
Aeolus Kephas
2004
Serpent of Wisdom
Donald Tyson
2013
Temple Of Solomon
James Wasserman
2011
The Secret of Light
Walter Bowman Russell
1974
What is Occultism?
Dion Fortune
2001
Chapter: 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660–1832' from book: Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
Jonathan Barry
2017
Epistemic Issues in Non-classical Religious Belief
Hans Van Eyghen
2023
Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 1198): Reason and Unreason in Prophecy
Fouad Ben Ahmed
2025
- Read free
Northern Archaeology and Cosmology
Vesa‐Pekka Herva, Antti Lahelma
2019
Psychology and Politics
Anna Borgos, Ferenc Erős, Júlia Gyimesi
2019
Sorcery or Science?
Ariela Marcus-Sells
2022
- Read free
Spiritual But Not Religious
Robert C. Fuller, William B. Parsons
2001