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
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
1886
- Read free
Techniques of Spiritual Experience
Jean-Pierre Brach, Thierry Zarcone
2025
- Read free
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Levi H. Dowling
1908
- Read free
The Aquarian Message
Samael Aun Weor
1960
- Read free
The Beetle
Richard Marsh
1897
- Read free
The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary
Karl Von Eckartshausen
1802
- Read free
The Comte De Saint Germain
Isabel Cooper-Oakley
1912
- Read free
The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker
1909
- Read free
The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
1911
- Read free
The Magus, Book 2
Francis Barrett
1801
- Read free
The Monk: A Romance
Matthew Lewis
1796
- Read free
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
1900
- Read free
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
William Walker Atkinson
1918
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- Read free
Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown
1798
- Read free
Yeats's Mask
Warwick Gould, Margaret Mills Harper
2013
- Read free
Modern Magic
Maximilian Schele de Vere
1873
- Read free
Practical Occultism
J. J. Morse
1888
- Read free
Chemical characters from several authors
Pierre-Auguste Adet, Basilius Valentinus, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, William Jackson, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, John Coakley Lettsom, Hieronymus von Ludolf
1769
Christian Divination in Late Antiquity
Robert Wisniewski, Robert W. Wisniewski, Damian Jasiński
2020
Modern Alchemy
Mark Morrisson, Mark S. Morrisson
2007
Modern Spiritualism
Frank Podmore
1902