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206 books of 336 · showing 51–100 · oldest first
Jewish scripture and tradition 2
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1886–1903
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature
The standard dictionary of rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic.
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1891–1906
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament
The standard Hebrew lexicon of the Hebrew Bible, based on Gesenius.
Greek and Roman mysteries 1
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1891
Hermetism 1
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1885
Gnosticism 1
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1887
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 2
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1887
The Kabbalah Unveiled
Translation of portions of Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin Kabbala Denudata, making Zoharic material accessible in English.
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English translation, 1887
Sepher Yetzirah
Helped make a foundational Kabbalistic text available to English-speaking occultists.
Alchemy 2
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1850
A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery
The book that began the modern reading of alchemy as an inner discipline rather than a chemistry. Atwood and her father withdrew and burned most of the edition soon after it...
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1893
Grimoires and ritual magic 1
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1889
The Key of Solomon the King
An influential English edition of the Solomonic grimoire tradition.
Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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volumes from 1617 into the 1620s
History of the Two Worlds
An illustrated encyclopaedia in which the greater world and the human body mirror one another.
Rosicrucianism 1
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1887
Freemasonry 4
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delivered in versions c. 1736–37
Ramsay's Discourse
Links Freemasonry imaginatively with chivalric and crusading traditions.
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1827
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1866
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1882
Christian theosophy and Swedenborg 15
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written 1612; circulated in manuscript; first printed 1634, posthumous
Aurora
An unfinished visionary account of God, creation, nature and the emergence of opposites.
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1619
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Develops his dynamic conception of divine manifestation and nature.
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1621
The Signature of All Things
Perhaps his most directly esoteric book: visible nature contains signatures revealing invisible spiritual realities.
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1763
Divine Love and Wisdom
Systematic metaphysics of God, creation and spiritual reality.
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1764
Divine Providence
A study of divine governance and human freedom.
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1766
Apocalypse Revealed
A spiritual interpretation of Revelation.
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1768
Conjugial Love
Spiritual sexuality and the correspondence of marriage.
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1771
True Christian Religion
The great synthesis of his later theology.
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1775
Of Errors and Truth
His first major work, published as 'The Unknown Philosopher'. Humanity is fallen from an original spiritual condition and capable of restoration.
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1782
Tableau naturel
Develops his account of humanity, nature and the divine order.
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1790
The Man of Desire
A devotional and mystical work expressing the soul's longing for reintegration.
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1792
Ecce Homo
A meditation on spiritual regeneration and the true human condition.
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1790s
The New Man
An account of inward rebirth.
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1800
The Spirit of Things
Attempts to read nature as a spiritual revelation.
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1802
Ministry of the Man-Spirit
One of his mature statements concerning humanity's spiritual vocation.
Mesmerism and Spiritualism 3
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1766
Dissertatio physico-medica de planetarum influxu
His medical dissertation on planetary influences and a universal physical fluid.
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1779
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal
The foundational statement of animal magnetism.
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1874
Eulis!
An explicitly occult work developing his theories of love, sexuality, magic and spiritual transformation.
Tarot 6
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nine volumes, 1773–1782; the Tarot essay in volume VIII, 1781
Le Monde primitif
Volume VIII contains the famous Tarot essay asserting an Egyptian origin and a 'Book of Thoth'.
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installments 1783–1785
Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots
The first systematic published instructions for divinatory Tarot. It assigns upright and reversed meanings and integrates astrology and elemental correspondences.
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1785
Fragment sur les hautes sciences
Further develops his 'higher sciences'.
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c. 1790
Cours théorique et pratique du Livre de Thot
A late synthesis of his Tarot theories.
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1888
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
French occultism 6
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1860
History of Magic
An influential but highly mythologised history linking ancient mysteries, Kabbalah, magic and Christian esotericism.
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1861
Key of the Great Mysteries
Develops his occult philosophy of correspondences and universal equilibrium.
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1886
At the Threshold of the Mystery
An introduction to occult doctrine and symbolism.
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1887
L'Occultisme contemporain
A survey of the contemporary occult revival.
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1888
Traité élémentaire de science occulte
A hugely influential introductory manual presenting occultism as an organised science.
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1891
Le Serpent de la Genèse I: Le Temple de Satan
The first instalment of an ambitious exploration of evil, magic and occult philosophy.
The Golden Dawn 4
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1887
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c. 1888
Book T
Book T is the Golden Dawn's central instructional document on tarot. It specifies card designs and connects the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters and Tree paths, the...
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1890
Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
A concise presentation of occult numerology.
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1893 onward
Collectanea Hermetica
A series he edited, making Hermetic, alchemical and Kabbalistic material available to students.