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
A survey of the occult
1989
A survey of the occult
Vector Magroon, Frederick Edward Budd
1935
Advanced course in yoga philosophy and oriental occultism
Ramacharaka
1977
An encyclopaedia of occultism : a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism, mysticism, and metaphysics.
Lewis Spence
1974
An encyclopaedia of occultism: a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science
Lewis Spence
1920
Anti-Canidia: or, Superstition detected and exposed
1762
Arcane secrets and occult lore of Mexico and Mayan Central America;: A treasury of magic, astrology, witchcraft, demonology, and symbolism
Lewis Spence
1973
Beyond the border
Louis William Rogers
1909
Dictionary of the occult
1999
Dictionary of the occult
1997
Dictionary of the supernatural : an A to Z of hauntings, possession, witchcraft demonology and other occult phenomena
Peter G. Underwood
1979
Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus), the English Rosicrucian
James Brown Craven
1902
Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival
Christopher McIntosh
2011
Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology
2001
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience
Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page
2014
Esotericism, Art, and Imagination
Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, John Richards, Melinda Weinstein
2017
Essay on superstition: being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances
William Newnham
1830
Extraordinary popular delusions
Charles Mackay
1850
Guide to the occult and mysticism
1997
Haunted houses
Eric Maple, Lynn Myring
1979
Hermeticism and the Renaissance : intellectual history and the occult in early modern Europe
Ingrid Merkel, Allen G. Debus
1988
Highest yoga tantra : an introduction to the esoteric Buddhism of Tibet
Daniel G. Cozort
1986
Hypnotism: Including a study of the chief points of psycho-therapeutics and occultism, 4th ed.
Albert Moll
1913
Illusions and delusions of the supernatural and the occult
D. H. Rawcliffe
1959