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16 reading choices in 13 collections · English included
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Natural qualities, celestial proportion and sacred knowledge meet in Agrippa’s three connected worlds of occult philosophy.
Two historical editions of all three books. Choose English or Latin; each opens at its first scan.
John Dee's records of actions with Edward Kelley and other participants
Follow Dee’s angelic inquiry through its conversations, visionary instruments, Great Table, names, offices and the thirty Airs.
The 1659 edition is divided into two reading parts. It contains the later conferences selected by Casaubon, not all of Dee’s surviving diaries.
Anonymous work; first printed at Basel
Explore Olympic governors, the ordering of secrets, sevenfold preparation, spiritual offices and the discernment of extraordinary promises.
The complete Arbatel section, printed pages 177–217, from the 1655 collected volume.
Attributed to Peter of Abano; the attribution is not accepted as established authorship
Study named hours, angelic governments, protective signs, sacred speech and the order of a ritual world beside the surviving manuscript.
Choose the surviving manuscript section or its Latin transcription. The transcription includes an English introduction, not a full English translation.
Richard Saunders
Saunders brings the reading of hands together with physiognomy, forehead lines, planetary correspondences and a treatise on moles.
Claudius Ptolemy; English translation by J. M. Ashmand from the paraphrase attributed to Proclus
Follow Ptolemy’s planetary qualities and zodiacal geometry into fixed stars, weather, birth charts and human relationships through a historical English edition.
The numbered text is present in this 1822 copy; its folded planisphere is missing.
Anonymous compilers; MS V.b.26
Enter an Elizabethan working collection of fairy courts, visionary instruments, sacred names, planetary governments and written spirit pledges.
Two parts contain all surviving historical manuscript pages. The opening pages 1–14 are unlocated, and the original numbering skips from 32 to 35.
Anonymous Egyptian compilation; edited and translated by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson
Enter an ancient Egyptian magical handbook of visionary vessels, divine guests, dream answers, hidden names and the solar boat.
Three historical volumes: text and translation, the editors’ hand-copy of the papyrus, and indices.
Anonymous compilation attributed to Solomon
Read the Lesser Key’s spirits through their distinct offices, ranks, knowledge, transformations and forms of ritual address, with extended studies of the Goetia.
The hosted 1904 volume is the Goetia, the first book of the five-part Lesser Key.
Anonymous manuscript tradition attributed to King Solomon
Follow planetary time, the seven pentacle families, sacred space, instruments and the responsibilities of a working company through the Key of Solomon.
Presented as Abraham's instruction to his son Lamech; historical authorship uncertain
Explore apprenticeship, angelic guidance, spiritual hierarchy, letter squares, guarded knowledge and the varied arts of the Abramelin tradition.
This 1898 copy lacks printed pages 20–21, 32–33 and 36–37. The available historical pages are presented in reading order.
Papus (Gérard Encausse) · translated by A. P. Morton
Follow Papus’s tarot through its figures, number patterns, court cards, septenaries and reading arrangements, with the complete historical English edition beside you.
Attributed to Basil Valentine; with Theodore Kerckring’s annotations and The True Book attributed to Synesius
Study spiritual foundations, hidden material powers, apparatus and the arguments of authors and commentators in a seventeenth-century alchemical volume.
Includes annotations, apparatus plates and the appended work attributed to Synesius. This copy lacks its portrait frontispiece, and the first apparatus plate is clipped at the scan edge.