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
Discorso del reuerendo m. Francesco de Cattani da Diacceto ... sopra la superstizzione dell'arte magica
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
1567Italian
Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym, De incertitudine & vanitate scietiarum declamatio inuectiua
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henri Corneille Agrippa
1537Latin
La transmission de pensée
Wladimir Granoff, Jean-Michel Rey, Sigmund Freud
2005French
Les propheties
Nostradamus, Vincent Sève
1605French
Revelaciones ocultas
Fabio García Saleh
2017Spanish
Théorie positive des phénomènes étudiés sous la dénomination de magnétisme animal
Louis Auguste Segond, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1854French
Verborgene Moderne
Matthias Dusini, Ivan Ristić, Hans-Peter Wipplinger
2025German
12 PIllars of Atum
Netism
2026
Absolute key to occult science. The tarot of the bohemians, the most ancient book in the world for the use of initiales by Papus (pseud.)
Gerard Encausse
1919
Philtres, charmes, poisons
Emile Gilbert
1880French
Sciences secrètes
A. S. Uvarov, A. Ladrague
1870Spanish
Sui shi guang ji
Yuanjing Chen
1879Chinese
Vegetarianism and occultism
Charles Webster Leadbeater, Alice Winston, James C Whitten, James C. Whitten Collection on the History of Vegetarianism
1913
Yi tu ming bian
Wei Hu
1853Chinese
"Stylistic arrangements"
Barbara L Croft
1987
(Re)creating science in nineteenth-century Britain
Amanda Mordavsky Caleb
2007
A True and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee and some spirits
John Dee
1974
A collection out of the best approved authors
John Gaule
1657
A continuation of the controversy with the worldly wise
Joanna Southcott
1811
A critical edition of Yeats' A vision (1925)
William Butler Yeats, George Mills Harper, Walter Kelly Hood
1978
A debate proposed in the Temple Patrick Society and fully discussed by the members
Temple Patrick Society
1788
A determination of the semi-diameter of the moon
Henry Martyn Paul, United States Naval Observatory
1883
A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness
Joanna Southcott
1802
A handbook of cartomancy, fortune-telling, and occult divination
Grand Orient
1897