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
In the shadow of the Enlightenment
Herbert Leventhal
1976
Nine notable prophesies
1644
Occultism and modern science
Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1923
Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History
Lee Irwin
2017
Science and the supernatural : an investigation of paranormal phenomena including psychic healing, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition by a distinguished physicist and mathematician
John G. Taylor
1980
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
John Carter
2000
Shingon: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
泰広 山崎, 康義 森本, David Kidd
1988
Solomon the Esoteric King: From King to Magus, Development of a Tradition
Pablo Torijano Morales
2002
Swedenborg and esoteric Islam
Henry Corbin
1995
The "mysteries" of Qumran : mystery, secrecy, and esotericism in the Dead Sea scrolls
Thomas
2009
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Pierre Apraxine
2005
The Strange and wonderful history of Mother Shipton
1686
The Tarot
Mouni Sadhu
1962
The amphitheatre engravings of Heinrich Khunrath
Heinrich Khunrath
1980
The divine guide in early Shiʿism : the sources of esotericism in Islam
Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi
1994
The great book of magical art, Hindu magic and East Indian occultism
Lauron William de Laurence
1939
The grimoire : and other supernatural stories
Montague Summers
1936
The refutation of all heresies
Hippolytus
1868
The sixth sense
Joseph Claude Sinel
1927
The spiritualists : the passion for the occult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Ruth Brandon
1983
The supernatural? : with chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy
Lionel Alexander. Weatherly, John Nevil Maskelyne, R. A. Gilbert
2000
The way out
A. Jorgelina Zeoli
2017
Theosophy and the poetry of George Russell (AE), William Butler Yeats, and James Stephens
James James Howard O'Brien
1956
Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism
Antoine Faivre, Christine Rhone
2000