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    The Golden Chain of Homer

    Primary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗

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    The Golden Verses

    Attributed to Pythagoras

    literary work

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 2 more editions

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    The Gospel of Thomas

    Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library

    Primary source Landmark also Gnosticism and Christian scripture and mysticism

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    The Grimoire of Pope Honorius

    17th to 18th century grimoire

    Primary source Notable also Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

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    Heptameron

    Attributed to Peter of Abano

    Primary source Unmeasured also Grimoires and ritual magic

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  6. written 1520s–1541; collected in English 1894

    The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus

    Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim)

    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.

    Formative source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at archive.org ↗

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    Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

    Herbert Silberer

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    Hieroglyphica

    Horapollo

    Primary source Unmeasured also Egyptian religion and magic and Hermetism

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    A History of Magic and Experimental Science

    Lynn Thorndike

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Natural philosophy, Alchemy, and Astrology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗ and 1 more edition

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    The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

    Montague Summers

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature

    Christian D. Ginsburg

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

    Philostratus

    work by Philostratus

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries

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    Light on the Path

    Mabel Collins

    Primary source Unmeasured also Theosophy and its descendants

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers

    Arthur Edward Waite

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Magical Calendar

    esoteric calendar by Johann Baptist Grossschedel

    Primary source Notable also Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

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    Demoniality

    Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

    Primary source Unmeasured also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Most Holy Trinosophia

    Attributed to the Comte de Saint-Germain

    Primary source Unmeasured also Rosicrucianism and Alchemy

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    Ancient Fragments

    Isaac Preston Cory

    Formative source Minor also Greek and Roman mysteries and Mesopotamian divination and magic

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    A New Light of Alchymie

    Michael Sendivogius

    Primary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Ocean of Theosophy

    William Quan Judge

    Primary source Unmeasured also Theosophy and its descendants

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    The Orphic Hymns

    collection of 87 short religious poems composed in either the late Hellenistic or early Roman era

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries

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    Paradoxes of the Highest Science

    Éliphas Lévi

    Primary source Unmeasured also French occultism

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    Pistis Sophia

    gnostic text in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and the disciples

    Primary source Major also Gnosticism

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 1 more edition

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    Proofs of a Conspiracy

    John Robison

    Secondary source Unmeasured also Freemasonry

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 1 more edition

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    Refutation of All Heresies

    Hippolytus of Rome

    work by Hippolytus of Rome

    Secondary source Notable also Gnosticism

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗ and 1 more edition

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    The Rosicrucian Mysteries

    Max Heindel

    Primary source Unmeasured also Rosicrucianism

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗

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    Sefer ha-Levanah

    Primary source Unmeasured also Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

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    Sepher Raziel

    Primary source Unmeasured also Grimoires and ritual magic

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    The Sibylline Oracles

    collection of oracular utterances in Greek hexameter, containing Hellenistic/Roman mythology with Jewish, Gnostic and Christian stories

    Primary source Major also Greek and Roman mysteries, Jewish scripture and tradition, and Christian scripture and mysticism

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  30. prayers from antiquity; the order fixed in the Middle Ages

    Siddur

    Compiled over centuries

    The daily prayer book: the Amidah, the Shema and the prayers before sleep.

    Primary source Landmark also Jewish scripture and tradition

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 2 more editions

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    The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses

    18th- or 19th-century grimoire, attributed to Moses; instructs the reader in the spells used to create the miracles portrayed in the Bible, with annexes of Talmudic magic...

    Primary source Notable also Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗ and 2 more editions

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    The Sword of Moses

    apocryphal book of ancient Hebrew magic

    Primary source Notable also Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah and Grimoires and ritual magic

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

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    Testament of Solomon

    Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon

    Primary source Major also Grimoires and ritual magic

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    The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony

    Attributed to Basil Valentine

    Primary source Unmeasured also Alchemy

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    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

    Walter Scott

    1830 book by Sir Walter Scott

    Secondary source Notable also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ and 1 more edition

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    The Wonders of the Invisible World

    Cotton Mather

    book published by Cotton Mather in 1693

    Primary source Notable also Witchcraft and demonology

    Read at gutenberg.org ↗