Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,793
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 65%
- 1,814 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,768
- Metadata match131
- Query match893
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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
- Alchemy538
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)227
- History174
- Alchemie140
- Early works to 1800139
- Alchimie125
- Occultism122
- Social Sciences110
- Philosophy105
- Art97
- Arts and Humanities86
- Hermetism86
- Chemistry84
- Literature68
- Magic62
- Medicine53
- Archeology50
- Text50
- Art history46
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies46
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices44
- Alquimia42
- Hermeticism41
- Alchemia39
Top languages
- German812 · 29%
- English626 · 22%
- Latin426 · 15%
- NOT345 · 12%
- French192 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus243 in this tradition252 books
- Trismegistus Hermes58 in this tradition62 books
- Basilius Valentinus27 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer25 books
- Michael Maier24 in this tradition28 books
- Raimundus Lullus21 in this tradition24 books
- Gerhard Dorn17 in this tradition19 books
- Pierre-Jean Fabre16 books
- Carl Gustav Jung14 in this tradition32 books
- George Starkey14 books
- Johann Rudolph Glauber13 in this tradition14 books
- Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān12 in this tradition13 books
2,793 books
- Read free
Dialectics of Spontaneity
Zhiyi Yang
2015
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The Kybalion
Three Initiates
1908
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Freemasonry and the Orient
De Poli, Barbara | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-
2019
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The Alchemy of Happiness
Al Ghazzali, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali, Elton D. Daniel, Claud Field
2015
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Curiosités des sciences occultes
Paul Lacroix
1862French
Hidden animals
Michael Newton, Michael Dawn Newton
2009
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Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica Atque Technica Historia
Robert Fludd
1617Latin
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Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
Ciampini, Emanuele Marcello | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-, Crippa, Sabina | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2017Italian
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The Adam & Eve Story
Chan Thomas
1993
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An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 2
Mehdi Aminrazavi, S. H Nasr
2008
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Ars artium ... [etc.]
Elias Ashmole, John Dee, Richard Napier, Charles Rainsford
1787
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Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination
Georgiana D Hedesan
2018
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Chapter Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical-Alchemical Perspectives of Poison
Delia Georgiana Hedesan
2017
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Critical Race Narratives
Carl Gutierrez-Jones
2001
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Monetary science, fiscal alchemy
Eric Michael Leeper, National Bureau Of Economic Research
2010
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Renaissance Futurities
Charlene Villaseñor Black, Mari-Tere Álvarez
2019
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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine
Vivienne Lo, Michael Stanley-Baker
2022
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The Aquarian Message
Samael Aun Weor
1960
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The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary
Karl Von Eckartshausen
1802
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The Comte De Saint Germain
Isabel Cooper-Oakley
1912
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The Magus, Book 2
Francis Barrett
1801
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The Story of Han Xiangzi
Erzeng Yang
2011
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Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
William R Newman, Jutta Schickore
2025
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