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
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
- 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
Explorations in Music and Esotericism
Leonard George, Marjorie Roth
2023
Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime
Larry Kahaner
1988
Nepobedimoje Solntse
Viktor O Pelevin
2020Russian
Encyclopedia of the unexplained;: Magic, occultism and parapsychology
Richard Cavendish, J. B. Rhine
1974
Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions
Mircea Eliade
1976
- Read free
The Law of Liberty
Aleister Crowley
Date unknown
Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism
Kendra Leonard
2019
Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV
Desmond M. Clarke
1989
Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities
Kocku von Stuckrad
2010
India and the Occult
Gordan Djurdjevic
2014
The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism
Manon Hedenborg White
2019
Consolidation of Near-Death Discourse (1930–1960)
Jens Schlieter
2018
Inferno and From an occult diary
August Strindberg, Torsten Eklund, Mary Sandbach
1979
Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena
Catrien Ross
1996
Abeceda okultismu, aneb, Využití tajných věd v praxi
Věra Kubištová
1990Czech
- Read free
Abschlussbericht des Forschungsprojektes: Der Einfluss früher islamischer Philosophen auf die islamische Magie am Beispiel der Ġāyat al-ḥakīm und des Šams al-maʽārif al-kubrā
Dorothee Lauer
2025German
Encyklopedie okultismu, mystiky a všech tajných nauk
Otakar Čapek
1940Czech
Historie mistra černé magie
František Baran
1928Czech
Lehre von den occultistischen Weltgesetzen in 500 ausgewählten Sätzen
Gustav Wilhelm Geßmann
1897German
Na prahu tajemství
Stanislas de Guaita
1921Czech
Nové poselství z Prahy
2003Czech
Okultizmus
1993Czech
Poznámky k Darwinovi po stránce okkultní
Boža Müller
1920Czech
Lokahita beda vijjā
Kraññʻ Lvaṅʻ Ūʺ, ကြည်လွင် ဦး
1977MKH