Opening the Source
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.
Dante Alighieri; Landino, Christophoro (commentator)
Giambattista della Porta
Various; ed. P. Perna
Johannes Trithemius | Gabriel de Collange (translator)
Albertus Magnus
Johannes Kepler
Andrea Palladio
Jan Amos Comenius
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476)
Euclid; ed. Johannes Campanus
Claudius Ptolemy
Plato (Ficino translation)
Andrea Alciato
Comenius, Jan Amos (1592-1670)
Francesco Colonna
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499

Punyaraja

Daivagya Ramacharya
King James I of England
Athanasius Kircher
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni | Benivieni, Girolamo
Emanuel Swedenborg
Pietro d'Abano
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