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
- 1,478
- Earliest
- 1291
- to 2026
- Read free
- 30%
- 446 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,116
- Metadata match341
- Query match13
- Source classification (retained through merging)8
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
- Occultism416
- History255
- Social Sciences199
- Philosophy197
- Arts and Humanities172
- Art130
- Okkultismus122
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices111
- Occult sciences107
- Occultisme107
- Magic93
- Fiction92
- Supernatural92
- Literature85
- Psychology84
- Occult79
- Medicine76
- Text73
- Alchemy64
- Parapsychology61
- Early works to 180060
- Spiritualism59
- Non-fiction literature58
- Theosophy55
Top languages
- English968 · 65%
- German96 · 6%
- French79 · 5%
- Czech56 · 4%
- Italian46 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Amelia Febriany14 in this tradition25 books
- Aleister Crowley13 in this tradition26 books
- David Spangler11 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim10 in this tradition22 books
- Jens Schlieter10 in this tradition17 books
- Rudolf Steiner8 in this tradition153 books
- Lewis Spence8 in this tradition15 books
- Carl Du Prel8 in this tradition14 books
- Violet M. Firth8 in this tradition13 books
- Annie Besant7 in this tradition59 books
- William Walker Atkinson7 in this tradition22 books
- Éliphas Lévi7 in this tradition19 books
1,478 books
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
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
1997
Dictionary of the occult
1999
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
Ghost land, or, Researches into the mysteries of occultism
William Britten, Emma Hardinge Britten
1876
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
In the shadow of the Enlightenment
Herbert Leventhal
1976
Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
Charles Mackay
1841