The world's largest occult library has a public online archive

The Bluestocking

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Amsterdam's Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (AKA "The Ritman Library) houses more ths 25,000 occult texts, covering "Hermetics, Rosicrucians, Theosophy, alchemy, mysticism, Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Sufism, Kabbalah, Anthroposophy, Catharism, Freemasonry, Manichaeism, Judaica, the Grail, Esotericism, and comparative religion."

The library has begun to scan and post its core collection to an online archive called The Hermetically Open Archive. The project was underwritten by Dan Brown in thanks for the library's contributions to his books "The Lost Symbol" and "Inferno" (the library houses the first illustrated edition of Dante's "Divine Comedy," from 1472).


Read more and see some of the texts here - might be useful for anyone who writes fantasy that includes any of the elements listed above.

@HareBrain - This resource looks to be right up your alley?
 
Including in this thread for neatness - there's also a decent small collection at the Enheduanna library hosted by Warlock Asylum - also worth looking at for those so inclined.

And thanks to The Bluestocking for the original link :)
 

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