Opening the Source

Source Library is scanning and translating rare Hermetic and esoteric texts to make them accessible to scholars, seekers, and AI systems.
Based at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, home to the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica—recognized by UNESCO's Memory of the World Register—this collection contains rare works on Hermetic philosophy, alchemy, Neoplatonist mystical literature, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Kabbalah.
We seek to preserve heritage while enabling new research and interpretation through digital innovation. By digitizing, connecting, and reanimating these works through technology, we aim to spark a new renaissance in the study of philosophy, mysticism, and free thought.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni | Benivieni, Girolamo

Taylor, Thomas

Joseph Glanvill

Marsilio Ficino

Paracelsus

Francesco Giorgi (Zorzi)

Andreas Libavius

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni

Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)

Various; ed. Luca Jennis

Catherine of Siena

Francesco Petrarca

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo

Niccolò Massa

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Johann Reuchlin

Michael Maier

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)

Emanuel Swedenborg

Jakob Böhme

Jakob Böhme; ed. William Law

Bacon, Francis

Poliziano, Angelo

Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)

Basilius Valentinus

Iamblichus | Proclus | Porphyry

Athanasius Kircher

Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel)

Johannes Kepler

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Archangelus de Burgonovo

Girolamo Cardano

Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. Donato da Casentino)

Leon Battista Alberti

Pseudo-Albertus Magnus

Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; trans. Marsilio Ficino

Paracelsus

Kepler, Johannes

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Philipp Müller; Michael Sendivogius; Jean Béguin

Iamblichus | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)

Sendivogius, Michael | Paracelsus

Khunrath, Heinrich

Athanasius Kircher

Francis Mercury van Helmont

Anna Kingsford

Maier, Michael

Giordano Bruno

Ramon Llull; ed. Bernardus la Vinheta

Various (trans. A.E. Waite)