Hermetic texts and philosophy
Hermeticism Texts
Primary Hermetic texts, later Hermetic philosophy, and adjacent works on ascent, correspondence, divine mind, and spiritual transformation.
- Texts
- 53
- Authors
- 37
- Range
- 1300 BCE to 1930
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Hermeticism is the archive's broadest stream of texts concerned with Hermes Trismegistus, divine mind, the living cosmos, and the ascent of the soul. This hub keeps the Hermetic corpus, Renaissance reception, and modern Hermetic reinterpretation together without folding every occult text into the same category.
- Classical and late antique Hermetica.
- Renaissance and early modern Hermetic philosophy.
- Modern works that explicitly work through Hermetic principles rather than merely sharing occult vocabulary.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Hermeticism.
The Kybalion
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
The Divine Pymander
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars - Volume 2
Within the Temple of Isis
Corpus Hermeticum
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Splendor Solis
Morals and Dogma
Five Books of Mystery
Rosicrucian Manifestos
The Signature of All Things
More Hermeticism Texts
Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia)
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
Transcendental Magic
Transcendental Magic
Isis Unveiled Vol. 1
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
Liber 777
Kabbalah Unveiled
Picatrix
Key of Solomon
Sacred Magic of Abramelin (Book 1)
The Twelve Keys
Aurora
Christian Astrology
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
The Book of Thoth
The Magus (Vol 2)
The Magus (Vol 1)
Zanoni
The Secret Doctrine (Vol 1)
The Book of the Law
The Chaldean Oracles
Book 4 Part 1
Master Key System
The Science of Numerology
The White Spark
Book 4 Part 2
The Book of Talismans
Bygone Beliefs
Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Magick in Theory and Practice
Psychic Self-Defense
The Hermetic Museum
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers
The New Pearl of Great Price
Ceremonial Magic
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
A Vision
Related Topics
Hermeticism and Alchemy
Hermetic and alchemical source texts covering the Corpus Hermeticum, Divine Pymander, The Kybalion, Paracelsus, alchemical symbolism, medicine, and spiritual transformation.
Alchemy
Alchemy texts and commentaries covering transmutation, medicine, allegory, spiritual regeneration, and the symbolic language of the great work.
Gnosticism and Apocrypha
Gnostic and apocryphal texts covering Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, mystical revelation, and esoteric Christian cosmology.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah and Qabalah texts on the Tree of Life, divine names, emanation, symbolism, magic, meditation, and esoteric biblical interpretation.
Ceremonial Magic
Ritual magic texts focused on consecration, invocation, planetary and angelic operations, magical tools, and structured ceremonial practice.
Theosophy
Theosophical texts on occult cosmology, root races, comparative religion, esoteric evolution, hidden masters, and modern esoteric synthesis.
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