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
A history of magic
William Bernard Crow
1972
A history of magic, witchcraft & the occult
Suzannah Lipscomb
2020
A manual of occultism
Sepharial
1972
A midnight visit to Holyrood
Marie countess of Caithness
1887
A science for the soul
Corinna Treitel
2004
A testimony of Joanna Southcott, the prophetess sent by the Lord to warn the people of his coming
William Roundell Wetherell
1804
A treatise of specters, or, An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions
Thomas Bromhall
1658
A true relation of Mr. Iustice Cook's passage by sea from Wexford to Kinsaile
John Cook
1652
A.E. Waite
R.A. Gilbert
1987
A.E. Waite - a bibliography
R.A. Gilbert
1983
Account of recent astronomical observations made on the continent
Carl Rümker
1821
Address
Emma Hardinge Britten
1865
Adorno: The stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture
Theodor W Adorno, Stephen Crook
1994
Alchemy and the occult
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ian MacPhail, Laurence C Witten, Richard Pachella
1968
Alchemy and the occult
Ian MacPhail
1968
An A to Z of the occult
Simon Cox
2007
An admonition to the people of all countries, that our saviour's second coming is at hand and the establishment of his kingdom on earth; which will be preceded by the terrible day of the Lord, a day of trouble and darkness, a day of wasting and destruction. As also, that Richard Brothers is the prophet sent by God, before the coming of said terrible day, and is raised up by him, as the recorded prince of the Hebrews, to lead them to their own land before the expiring of 1798
John Finlayson
1797
An encyclopedia of the occult
Lewis Spence
1988
An inquiry into table-miracles, their cause, character, and consequence
R. C. Morgan
1853
Angels in the trenches
Leo Ruickbie
2018
Anima magica abscondita, or, A discourse of the universall spirit of nature, with his strange, abstruse, miraculous ascent and descent
Thomas Vaughan
1650
Anna Kingsford, her life, letters, diary and work
Edward Maitland
1896
Arktos
Joscelyn Godwin, Lennart Brand
2007
Astrological predictions for the year 1677
William Lilly
1677