Reading room · Complete texts
The reading room
Complete texts of the grimoires
Full public-domain texts of the old books of magic and occult philosophy, transcribed from the early printed editions and set out section by section, with the spelling of the original. For the scriptures of the world's religions, see the scripture room.
- 1572Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by NightLudwig Lavater · trans. R. H. (Robert Harrison)17 sections · 75k words
- 1593A Dialogue concerning WitchesGeorge Gifford10 sections · 33k words
- 1597DaemonologieJames VI, King of Scotland (later James I of England)6 sections · 21k words
- 1597The Mirror of AlchimyAttributed to Roger Bacon, with tracts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, Hortulanus and Khalid ibn Yazid7 sections · 22k words
- 1599A Letter … Discourse ApologeticallJohn Dee3 sections · 4k words
- 1610The Damned Art of WitchcraftWilliam Perkins; published by Thomas Pickering16 sections · 49k words
- 1650Anima Magica AbsconditaThomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)5 sections · 14k words
- 1650Anthroposophia TheomagicaThomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)6 sections · 16k words
- 1650Magia AdamicaThomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)11 sections · 36k words
- 1651Lumen de LumineThomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)7 sections · 22k words
- 1651Three Books of Occult PhilosophyHenry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim · trans. J. F. (probably John French)45 sections · 188k words
- 1652The Fame and Confession of the Rosie CrossAnonymous (the Rosicrucian manifestos); preface by Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes) · trans. Anonymous; published by Thomas Vaughan7 sections · 23k words
- 1652Theatrum Chemicum BritannicumElias Ashmole (editor); Thomas Norton, George Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Charnock, Edward Kelley, John Dee and others29 sections · 126k words
- 1655Arbatel of Magick (Turner 1655)Anonymous · trans. Robert Turner3 sections · 11k words
- 1655Fourth Book of Occult PhilosophyAttributed to Henry Cornelius Agrippa, with the Heptameron attributed to Peter de Abano, Astronomical Geomancy attributed to Gerard of Cremona, the Isagoge of Georg Pictorius and the anonymous Arbatel · trans. Robert Turner19 sections · 66k words
- 1655Heptameron (Turner 1655)Attributed to Peter de Abano (pseudonymous) · trans. Robert Turner2 sections · 9k words
- 1656Of the Supreme Mysteries of NatureAttributed to Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) · trans. Robert Turner10 sections · 34k words
- 1656Themis AureaMichael Maier · trans. Anonymous (the dedication is signed N. L., T. S., H. S.)8 sections · 28k words
- 1657The Divine PymanderAttributed to Hermes Trismegistus · trans. John Everard13 sections · 47k words
- 1658Natural MagickGiambattista della Porta60 sections · 272k words
- 1659A True and Faithful RelationJohn Dee, with Edward Kelley as scryer; edited with a preface by Meric Casaubon74 sections · 291k words
- 1659Friar Bacon’s Discovery of the Miracles of Art, Nature and MagickAttributed to Roger Bacon · trans. T. M.4 sections · 9k words
- 1659Mosaicall PhilosophyRobert Fludd55 sections · 229k words
- 1659Aurora of the Philosophers; the Water-Stone of the WiseAttributed to Paracelsus; the Water-Stone anonymous · trans. J. H., Oxon.12 sections · 42k words
- 1660ArchidoxisAttributed to Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) · trans. J. H., Oxon. (John Harding)25 sections · 95k words
- 1662The Chaldaick Philosophy and OraclesThomas Stanley15 sections · 52k words
- 1665The Discovery of WitchcraftReginald Scot; the second book of the Discourse and the opening chapters of Book XV added anonymously in 166557 sections · 236k words
- 1677The Displaying of Supposed WitchcraftJohn Webster56 sections · 190k words
- 1681Saducismus TriumphatusJoseph Glanvill; with Henry More and Anthony Horneck31 sections · 135k words
- 1690The Chymical Wedding of Christian RosenkreutzJohann Valentin Andreae (published under the name of Christian Rosencreutz) · trans. Ezechiel Foxcroft9 sections · 36k words