Occult Hall
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OCCULT HALL · THE GREAT LIBRARY

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through the hidden arts.

Ancient pages. Clear explanations. A world of connections.
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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

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FOLLOW A THREAD

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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.

Cards, hands & divination

11 collections

284 lessons across these collections · 13 free introductions

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Compare historical ways of reading cards, hands, dreams, and visionary surfaces.

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
One scholar observes an imagined figure in a crystal while another records the encounter in a book.
Angelic records, 1581–1587; selected conferences printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659

Dee

Follow Dee’s angelic inquiry through its conversations, visionary instruments, Great Table, names, offices and the thirty Airs.

23 lessons1 free · 22 in-depth
A woodland court appears within a scrying mirror beside a crystal amid moss and flowers.
English manuscript, c. 1577–1583

Oberon

Enter an Elizabethan working collection of fairy courts, visionary instruments, sacred names, planetary governments and written spirit pledges.

17 lessons1 free · 16 in-depth
The luminous guardian guiding an attentive learner toward a doorway illustrates instruction and receptivity before the later exercise of power.
Early modern tradition; complete manuscript witness dated 1608

Abramelin

Explore apprenticeship, angelic guidance, spiritual hierarchy, letter squares, guarded knowledge and the varied arts of the Abramelin tradition.

16 lessons1 free · 15 in-depth
An archivist supports an old open manuscript with a worn binding beside a fern-lit window.
Fifteenth century

The Munich Manual

Read a medieval book of conjurations through extraordinary teachers, imagined banquets, impossible travel, dreams and instruments of vision.

17 lessons1 free · 16 in-depth
A small red-bound volume lies beneath a crown’s shadow beside larger books.
False 1521 imprint · catalogued about 1850

The Grand Grimoire

Explore commands, negotiated pacts, infernal offices, treasure and angelic mirrors in a complete French Dragon Rouge witness.

13 lessons1 free · 12 in-depth
A bronze vessel reflects a luminous sky and doorway amid lotus leaves and an open papyrus.
Third century CE · editions 1904, 1905 and 1921

The Demotic Papyrus

Enter an ancient Egyptian magical handbook of visionary vessels, divine guests, dream answers, hidden names and the solar boat.

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: Two kinds of foreknowledge.
Ancient work; English edition, London, 1822

Tetrabiblos

Follow Ptolemy’s planetary qualities and zodiacal geometry into fixed stars, weather, birth charts and human relationships through a historical English edition.

16 lessons1 free · 15 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.