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
Occultism and modern science
Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1923
Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History
Lee Irwin
2017
Science and the supernatural : an investigation of paranormal phenomena including psychic healing, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition by a distinguished physicist and mathematician
John G. Taylor
1980
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
John Carter
2000
Shingon: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
泰広 山崎, 康義 森本, David Kidd
1988
Solomon the Esoteric King: From King to Magus, Development of a Tradition
Pablo Torijano Morales
2002
Swedenborg and esoteric Islam
Henry Corbin
1995
The "mysteries" of Qumran : mystery, secrecy, and esotericism in the Dead Sea scrolls
Thomas
2009
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Pierre Apraxine
2005
The Tarot
Mouni Sadhu
1962
The amphitheatre engravings of Heinrich Khunrath
Heinrich Khunrath
1980
The divine guide in early Shiʿism : the sources of esotericism in Islam
Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi
1994
The great book of magical art, Hindu magic and East Indian occultism
Lauron William de Laurence
1939
The grimoire : and other supernatural stories
Montague Summers
1936
The history of magic
Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Howitt, William Howitt, Harry Houdini Collection
1854
The refutation of all heresies
Hippolytus
1868
The sixth sense
Joseph Claude Sinel
1927
The spiritualists : the passion for the occult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Ruth Brandon
1983
The supernatural? : with chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy
Lionel Alexander. Weatherly, John Nevil Maskelyne, R. A. Gilbert
2000
The way out
A. Jorgelina Zeoli
2017
Theosophy and the poetry of George Russell (AE), William Butler Yeats, and James Stephens
James James Howard O'Brien
1956
Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism
Antoine Faivre, Christine Rhone
2000
Treatise on parapsychology
René Sudre
1960
Waite, Arthur Edward (1857–1942), mystic and historian of occultism
R. A. Gilbert
2004