Occult Hall
A modern imagined reading room with illuminated manuscripts, plants and an armillary sphere.
OCCULT HALL · THE GREAT LIBRARY

Find your way
through the hidden arts.

Ancient pages. Clear explanations. A world of connections.
Choose a subject, begin a lesson, or open a book.

Start anywhere. Follow what draws you in.MODERN IMAGINED READING ROOM
462guided lessons77 Agrippa + 385 across the library25free introductionsIncluding 3 from Agrippa’s three books437in-depth studiesMember lessons beyond the introductions45reading volumes8,427 pages in the member readers
YOUR READING LEAVES A TRACE

Gather the insignia of the library.

Finish lessons, spend time with the original books, and watch your collection grow.

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FOLLOW A THREAD

What draws you in?

Explore related books together. A subject can lead through several traditions—and back to Agrippa.

THE CATALOGUE · AGRIPPA INCLUDED

Your next discovery.

23 collections, each with a free way in. The historical pages beneath our illustrations are from the books themselves—open a page, or follow its guided course.

Alchemy & nature’s secrets

4 collections

156 lessons across these collections · 6 free introductions

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Examine hidden material powers, alchemical philosophy, and the wonders collected in books of secrets.

An earthly garden, a starry middle realm, and an angelic realm form a layered Renaissance cosmos.
Complete Latin edition, 1533; English translation, 1651

Agrippa

Explore Agrippa’s connected worlds of natural qualities, celestial proportion, sacred names, and spiritual knowledge through all three books.

77 lessons3 free · 74 in-depth
A small printed book gathers a garden, workshop and star chart around one reading desk.
1765 printed edition

The Little Treasury

Explore a French treasury of hidden natural powers: planetary materials, elemental inhabitants, guarded treasure, exposed deceptions and rural protective charms.

13 lessons1 free · 12 in-depth
A Renaissance temple opens into seven distinct spaces for the study of sound.
Seventeenth century · composite set, 1617–1626

Fludd’s Harmonies

Explore Fludd’s music, numbers, geometry, optics, celestial and human worlds, sacred philosophy and experiments across thirteen hosted reading parts.

55 lessons1 free · 54 in-depth
Modern interpretive painting: Five foundations of the work.
English edition, London, 1678

Chariot of Antimony

Study spiritual foundations, hidden material powers, apparatus and the arguments of authors and commentators in a seventeenth-century alchemical volume.

11 lessons1 free · 10 in-depth
READ ACROSS THE LIBRARY

One question.
Several ways of seeing.

Follow a short path through related teachings. Every path begins free, and each brings Agrippa into conversation with other books.

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An earthly garden, a starry middle realm, and an angelic realm form a layered Renaissance cosmos.A Renaissance temple opens into seven distinct spaces for the study of sound.The paired dials distinguish daylight from darkness, the two spans divided separately in this lesson’s planetary clock.
MODERN ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY
THE READING ROOM

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to the old pages.

Browse every member book and edition in one place. Choose among 45 reading volumes and 8,427 pages, including Agrippa in English and Latin and all thirteen parts of Fludd.

Choose by title, author or language. Reading volumes include different editions and separate parts of longer works; the catalogue tells you what each one contains.

Historical pages, modern illustrations and clear explanations.
Follow the sources. Make your own connections.