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
Dictionary of the supernatural
Peter Underwood
1978
Divine and spiritual communications
Joanna Southcott
1803
Divine and spiritual communications, written by Joanna Southcott; on the prayers of the Church of England; the conduct of the clergy, and Calvinistic Methodists, with other particulars..
Joanna Southcott
1809
Edinburgh
Jan-Andrew Henderson
2004
Edinburgh city of the dead
Jan-Andrew Henderson
2010
Education in the new age
Alice A. Bailey
1954
Elhavarevna, or, The English physitians tutor
John Heydon
1665
Elizabethan occult poetics
Rachel White
2025
Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds and cure, of enthusiasme
Henry More
1656
Esoteric Catholicism
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, Helmut Zander
2025
Esoteric traditions in Islamic thought
Leonard Lewisohn
2024
Euphrates
Thomas Vaughan
1896
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Martin Gardner
1952
Festivals in the new age
David Spangler
1975
Foundations of Findhorn
Eileen Caddy
1978
Foundations of a spiritual community
Eileen Caddy
1991
From the centre
Sara Marriott
1981
Geister
Eva Reifert
2025
George William Allen and Christian socialism
Jeffrey D Lavoie
2020
Gnosis
Daniel Merkur
1993
God spoke to me
Elixir
1974
Gothicka
Victoria Nelson
2012
Griechische zauberpapyrus von Paris und London
Carl Wessely
1888
Haunted Japan
Catrien Ross, ProQuest
2020