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239 books of 370 · showing 201–239 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 2
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Greek and Roman mysteries 1
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Natural philosophy 1
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Neoplatonism 1
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2014
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods
A study of oracles, divination and theurgy in Porphyry and Iamblichus, set within the religious and philosophical debates of late antiquity.
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 1
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Islamic esotericism 1
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2018
The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures
Studies of arithmology, physiognomy, astrology, divination, geomancy, lettrism, alchemy, magic and gnosis in pre-modern Islamic cultures.
Alchemy 7
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written 1520s–1541; collected in English 1894
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Waite's two-volume English collection of the Paracelsian corpus, whose appendix on the three prime essences states the doctrine of salt, sulphur and mercury directly.
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Grimoires and ritual magic 4
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Witchcraft and demonology 3
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Rosicrucianism 2
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Freemasonry 1
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Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 1
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Tarot 1
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2009
A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism
A cultural history of tarot from its use as a card game in Renaissance Italy through French occultism, the Golden Dawn and modern divination.
French occultism 1
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The Golden Dawn 1
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2016
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Asprem's chapter 'The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.' (pp. 272–283) is this study's scholarly anchor for both orders: what they were, when they ran, and what was new about treating...
Theosophy and its descendants 4
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2021
Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900
Studies of the exchanges between occult and esoteric currents and the emerging academic study of religion around 1900.
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The Fourth Way 1
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2025
The Teachings and Legacy of G. I. Gurdjieff: Conference Anthology
Proceedings from a 2024 Harvard conference on Gurdjieff, the Work and their reception. The volume combines scholarship with reflections by practitioners and...
Traditionalism 1
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2021
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
A multidisciplinary handbook on the histories, ideas and institutions of Islamic and related movements, including chapters on Sufism, René Guénon and Gurdjieff.
Modern witchcraft 1
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Late-modern and chaos magic 4
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2008
The Apophenion
Continues his later speculative system.
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2010
The Octavo
Further development of the same speculative cosmology.
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2012
Contemporary Esotericism
An edited collection on Western esotericism since the 1950s, including studies of appeals to tradition, popular culture, new media and exchanges with other institutions.
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Quareia: The Apprentice
A complete modern course in practical magic, free to read. This study cites one lesson of it: Apprentice Module 2 Lesson 2, which teaches the Tree of Life as a tarot layout,...