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
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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
Near-Death Experiences and the Religious Metacultures of Western Modernity
Jens Schlieter
2018
Against the Light: The Philosophy of the Left-Hand Path
Denys Spirin
2026
The Occult World
Andrew Weeks
2014
A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics : Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
2013
Burya
William Shakespeare
1789
Bájné bytosti a další tvorové ze světa fantazie
2009Czech
Charms and Charming
Éva Pócs
2019
De Porta Primordii. Tractatus De Virtute Occulta
2024
Hermes in the Academy : Ten Years' Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam
2009
Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Christopher Partridge
2018
- Read free
Roman Singer
Francis Marion Crawford
1886
Supernatural Literature of the World
2005
Systém vývoje lidské mysli a okkultních schopností
James Cord
1940Czech
Síla mysli
James Cord, Vall Levis, František Kodym
1940Czech
The Occult in Early Modern Europe
1999
The gilded wolves
Roshani Chokshi
2018
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult
2017
Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge
Kocku von Stuckrad
2005
The rise of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet
E. K. Neumaier-Dargyay
1977
The Philosophy of the Dark Name: A Left-Hand Path Onomatodoxy
Denys Spirin
2026
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Geoffrey C. Goble
2019
The Hermetic Deleuze
Joshua Ramey
2012
Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture
2006
Conversations with a reporter in my head
A. Jorgelina Zeoli
2019