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192 books of 336 · showing 151–192 · oldest first
Egyptian religion and magic 1
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Jewish scripture and tradition 1
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prayers from antiquity; the order fixed in the Middle Ages
Siddur
The daily prayer book: the Amidah, the Shema and the prayers before sleep.
Greek and Roman mysteries 5
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The Golden Verses
literary work
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The Life of Apollonius of Tyana
work by Philostratus
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The Orphic Hymns
collection of 87 short religious poems composed in either the late Hellenistic or early Roman era
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The Sibylline Oracles
collection of oracular utterances in Greek hexameter, containing Hellenistic/Roman mythology with Jewish, Gnostic and Christian stories
Natural philosophy 1
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Gnosticism 3
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The Gospel of Thomas
Coptic-language early Christian non-canonical gospel, part of the Nag Hammadi library
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Pistis Sophia
gnostic text in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and the disciples
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Refutation of All Heresies
work by Hippolytus of Rome
Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah 2
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The Sword of Moses
apocryphal book of ancient Hebrew magic
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 7
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
17th to 18th century grimoire
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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...
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Testament of Solomon
Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon
Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala 1
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The Magical Calendar
esoteric calendar by Johann Baptist Grossschedel
Witchcraft and demonology 6
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
partially sceptical book published by Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early Modern witchcraft; contains a small section intended to show how the public was...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
1830 book by Sir Walter Scott
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The Wonders of the Invisible World
book published by Cotton Mather in 1693
Rosicrucianism 2
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Freemasonry 1
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French occultism 1
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Theosophy and its descendants 3
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Modern witchcraft 1
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