Hermetica, alchemy, and the Great Work
Hermeticism and Alchemy Texts
Hermetic and alchemical source texts covering the Corpus Hermeticum, Divine Pymander, The Kybalion, Paracelsus, alchemical symbolism, medicine, and spiritual transformation.
- Texts
- 56
- Authors
- 38
- Range
- 1300 BCE to 1930
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
This path joins Hermetic philosophy and alchemical writing where the archive's source material naturally overlaps: Hermes Trismegistus, correspondence, divine mind, transmutation, medicine, symbolic ascent, and the Great Work. Readers can also follow Hermeticism and Alchemy separately when they want to stay within one tradition.
- Hermetic source texts and later Hermetic philosophy.
- Laboratory, medicinal, symbolic, Christian, and spiritual alchemy.
- Works where Hermetic cosmology and alchemical transformation reinforce one another.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Hermeticism & Alchemy.
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
The Kybalion
Splendor Solis
The Divine Pymander
Corpus Hermeticum
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
The Twelve Keys
Aurora
Within the Temple of Isis
The White Spark
Bygone Beliefs
The Triumphant Chariot of Antimony
More Hermeticism and Alchemy Texts
The Signature of All Things
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars - Volume 2
Rosicrucian Manifestos
The Chemical Wedding
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
The Magus (Vol 1)
Morals and Dogma
Kabbalah Unveiled
Five Books of Mystery
Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia)
Fourth Book & Magical Treatises
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
The Magus (Vol 2)
Transcendental Magic
Transcendental Magic
Isis Unveiled Vol. 1
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
Liber 777
Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Picatrix
Key of Solomon
Sacred Magic of Abramelin (Book 1)
Christian Astrology
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
The Book of Thoth
Zanoni
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
The Secret Doctrine (Vol 1)
The Book of the Law
The Chaldean Oracles
Book 4 Part 1
Master Key System
The Science of Numerology
Book 4 Part 2
The Book of Talismans
Magick in Theory and Practice
Psychic Self-Defense
The New Pearl of Great Price
The Hermetic Museum
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Ceremonial Magic
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
A Vision
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Hermeticism
Primary Hermetic texts, later Hermetic philosophy, and adjacent works on ascent, correspondence, divine mind, and spiritual transformation.
Alchemy
Alchemy texts and commentaries covering transmutation, medicine, allegory, spiritual regeneration, and the symbolic language of the great work.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah and Qabalah texts on the Tree of Life, divine names, emanation, symbolism, magic, meditation, and esoteric biblical interpretation.
Theosophy
Theosophical texts on occult cosmology, root races, comparative religion, esoteric evolution, hidden masters, and modern esoteric synthesis.
Gnosticism and Apocrypha
Gnostic and apocryphal texts covering Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, mystical revelation, and esoteric Christian cosmology.
Philosophy and Esoteric Cosmology
Philosophical and cosmological texts on mystical philosophy, Neoplatonism, moral philosophy, cosmic order, metaphysics, and symbolic cosmology.
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