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
Freemasonry and the Orient
De Poli, Barbara | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-
2019
- Read free
Curiosités des sciences occultes
Paul Lacroix
1862French
Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest
Jody Elizabeth Myers, Jody Myers
2007
- Read free
Wandering ghosts
F. Marion Crawford, M. Leone Bracker
Date unknown
- Read free
Letters on occult meditation
Alice Bailey, Alice A. Bailey
1922
- Read free
An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ...
John Beaumont
1705
- Read free
The demonism of the ages
James Martin Peebles
1904
- Read free
Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
Ciampini, Emanuele Marcello | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-, Crippa, Sabina | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2017Italian
- Read free
Manfred Macmillan
Brian James Baer, Carleton Bulkin, Jirí Karásek ze Lvovic
2024
- Read free
On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism
Alfred Russel Wallace
1875
- Read free
A Commentary On 'Light On The Path'
Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater
1947
- Read free
A Dweller on Two Planets
Frederick S. Oliver
1905
- Read free
Ancient and Modern Initiation
Max Heindel
1909
- Read free
Ars artium ... [etc.]
Elias Ashmole, John Dee, Richard Napier, Charles Rainsford
1787
- Read free
Can Such Things Be?
Ambrose Bierce
1893
- Read free
Chapter 18 Derivative and Associative Popular Frazerism
Alessandro Testa
2025
- Read free
Chapter Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical-Alchemical Perspectives of Poison
Delia Georgiana Hedesan
2017
- Read free
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1818
- Read free
In a Glass Darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu
1872
- Read free
Initiation into the Mysteries. A Collection of Studies in Religion, Philosophy and the Arts
Anikó Daróczi, Enikő Sepsi, Miklós Vassányi
2020
- Read free
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Maturin
1820
- Read free
Power, protection and magic in Thailand : the cosmos of a southern policeman
Australian National University Press, Craig J Reynolds
2019
- Read free
Realizing Islam
Zachary Valentine Wright
2020
- Read free
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Enrique Santos Marinas, Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
2023