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
Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism
Sajal Nag
2023
Boken om runene
Ralph Blum
1991
Dark prisms
Robert Lima
1995
Desire after dark
Andrew J Owens, ProQuest
2021
Dictionary of mysticism and the esoteric traditions
Nevill Drury
1992
Dictionary of mysticism and the occult
Nevill Drury
1985
Dictionary of the supernatural
Peter Underwood
1978
Edinburgh
Jan-Andrew Henderson
2004
Edinburgh city of the dead
Jan-Andrew Henderson
2010
Education in the new age
Alice A. Bailey
1954
Elizabethan occult poetics
Rachel White
2025
Esoteric Catholicism
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, Helmut Zander
2025
Esoteric traditions in Islamic thought
Leonard Lewisohn
2024
Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
Charles Mackay
1972
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Martin Gardner
1952
Festivals in the new age
David Spangler
1975
Foundations of Findhorn
Eileen Caddy
1978
Foundations of a spiritual community
Eileen Caddy
1991
From the centre
Sara Marriott
1981
Geister
Eva Reifert
2025
George William Allen and Christian socialism
Jeffrey D Lavoie
2020
Gnosis
Daniel Merkur
1993
God spoke to me
Elixir
1974
Gothicka
Victoria Nelson
2012