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Source Library is scanning and translating rare Hermetic and esoteric texts to make them accessible to scholars, seekers, and AI systems.

Freshly Digitised & Translated Texts

2273 books in library

The Great Art of Light and Shadow

Athanasius Kircher

Latin760 pages

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0% translated3/760

Menippus, sive, dialogorum satyricorum

Andreae, Johann Valentin

Unknown1669466 pages

No OCR

0% translated1/466

Mystics of the Renaissance - Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Boehme, Bruno

Rudolf Steiner

German-EnglishUnknown306 pages

49% OCR'd150/306

0% translated1/306

Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio

Latin1522484 pages

41% OCR'd198/484

60% translated290/484

Theatrum Chemicum Vol. III (1602)

Various; ed. Lazarus Zetzner

Latin1659-16611073 pages

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0% translated1/1073

Atalanta fugiens: Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica

Atalanta Fleeing: New Chemical Emblems of the Secrets of Nature

Michael Maier

Latin1618229 pages

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81% translated186/229

[Cyrillisch:] Sleutel tot de geheimen van de natuur

Key to the secrets of nature

Eckartshausen, Karl von

Russian1804-1821401 pages

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26% translated103/401

The Art of Gold-Making (Alchemy Anthology)

Various (Turba Philosophorum, Pseudo-Lull, Albertus Magnus, etc.)

Latin1609361 pages

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80% translated290/361

Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander (Ficino translation)

Corpus Hermeticum: Pimander (1481 Venice Edition)

Hermes Trismegistus; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)

Latin148198 pages

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79% translated77/98

Anatomia sive exenteratio draconis fanatici. [Dissertatie] praeside Isaacus Froereisenius

Ulricus, Paulus

Unknown16230 pages

Dodecachordon

Heinrich Glareanus

Latin154725 pages

No OCR

24% translated6/25

Three Books on Life (1489 First Edition)

Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)

Latin1489204 pages

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18% translated37/204

Theosophia revelata (Vol. 5)

Jakob Böhme

German1730149 pages

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63% translated94/149

Kitab al-Bulhan Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. Or. 133

Book of Wonders

Abd al-Hasan al-Isfahani

Arabicc. 1400 (Jalayirid Baghdad)366 pages

7% OCR'd25/366

12% translated45/366

Instruction in Measurement

Albrecht Dürer

German1525192 pages

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93% translated179/192

Corpus Hermeticum with Pneumatica and Ocellus Lucanus

Hermes Trismegistus (attrib.) | Hero of Alexandria

Greek1530-1539284 pages

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99% translated282/284

De vitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis eorum qui in philosophia claruerunt libri X

Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius

Latin1570560 pages

81% OCR'd451/560

39% translated220/560

Monas hieroglyphica

John Dee

Latin156461 pages

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93% translated57/61

Hieronymi Mercurialis De arte gymnastica libri sex

Six Books of Girolamo Mercuriale on the Art of Gymnastics

Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606

latin1587360 pages

No OCR

35% translated127/360

Nova et accurata vestibuli Comeniani editio. Ampl. facultatis philos. in acad. reg. consensu ita adornata, ut reverendi, eximii & doctissimi viri, Dn. Christophori Liebruderi, eccles. Pol. Regiom. pastoris curâ & operâ versio polonica accesserit ; & rectorum scholarum Regiom. studio omnia themata textui è regione cum primariis eorundem accidentibus addita sint.

A new and accurate edition of Comenius's Vestibulum. So adorned with the consent of the distinguished philosophical faculty in the royal academy that a Polish translation by the reverend, excellent, and most learned man, Mr. Christoph Liebruder, pastor of the Polish Church in Königsberg, has been added through his care and labor; and through the diligence of the rectors of the Königsberg schools, all the themes are added to the text opposite their primary attributes.

Comenius, Jan Amos (1592-1670)

Latin16441156 pages

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96% translated1113/1156

Musurgia universalis Tomus I

Athanasius Kircher

Latin1650751 pages

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92% translated693/751

Atalanta Fleeing (alchemical emblems with music)

Maier, Michael

Latin1618232 pages

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91% translated212/232

Of Heroic Frenzies

Giordano Bruno

Italian1585294 pages

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91% translated268/294

Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom

Heinrich Khunrath

Latin1609333 pages

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Anleitung zur primitiven gabalistischen Wissenschaft

Introduction to Primitive Cabalistic Science

anonymous

German1789250 pages

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Opera Omnia (Complete Works)

Plato (Ficino translation)

Latin1557718 pages

7% OCR'd48/718

10% translated73/718

Elementa (Elements)

Euclid

Latin1482280 pages

4% OCR'd10/280

10% translated28/280

Dawn rising

Boehme, Jacob

German1780447 pages

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Aperta arca arcani artificiosissimi. Das ist: eröffneter und offenstehender Kasten

The opened chest of the most artful secret. That is: an opened and revealed box.

[Grasshoff, Johann]

German1658260 pages

99% OCR'd257/260

25% translated64/260

900 Theses (1486 Rome Edition)

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)

Latin148635 pages

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97% translated34/35

Tractatus duo. De natura elementorum. De quinta essentia

Two Treatises: On the Nature of Elements & On the Fifth Essence

Drebbel, Cornelius

Latin162869 pages

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Pansophiae Diatyposis (1645 Elzevier)

Jan Amos Comenius

Latin1645217 pages

68% OCR'd148/217

68% translated148/217

Pansophiae Prodromus (1638)

Jan Amos Comenius

Latin1639303 pages

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0% translated0/303

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Latin1550626 pages

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98% translated616/626

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499

Latin1497498 pages

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In Praise of the Holy Cross

Rabanus Maurus

Latin1605174 pages

98% OCR'd170/174

97% translated168/174

Eight Books on Astronomy

Julius Firmicus Maternus

Latin1533497 pages

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Erzählungen zum Vergnügen und zur Seelenbildung

Stories for Pleasure and Edification

Eckartshausen, Karl von

German1785424 pages

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98% translated416/424

Echo of the Rosicrucian Colloquy, that is: Reverberation

Hilarionus, Benedictus

German162253 pages

91% OCR'd48/53

85% translated45/53

Tetragonismus idest circuli quadratura per Campanum archimedem Syracusanum atque boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta

Campano : da Novara

Latin150365 pages

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52% translated34/65

A christian and heavenly treatise. Containing physicke for the soule

A Christian and Heavenly Treatise: Containing Medicine for the Soul

Abernethy, M.I

English1622549 pages

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25% translated138/549

Medulla animae, das ist, von Vollkommenheit aller Tugenden

The Marrow of the Soul, that is, of the Perfection of all Virtues

Tauler, Johannes

German1672307 pages

9% OCR'd29/307

3% translated9/307

New Chemical Light

[Sendivogius, Michael]

Latin1628209 pages

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De hermetica Aegyptiorum vetere et Paracelsicorum nova medicina

On the Ancient Hermetic Medicine of the Egyptians and the New Medicine of the Paracelsians

Conring, Hermann

Latin1649433 pages

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21% translated93/433

Know thyself

[Reger von Ehrenhart, Ernestus Aurelius]

Germann.d.27 pages

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Abhandlung von freier Untersuchung des Canon

Treatise on the Free Investigation of the Canon

Semler, Johann Salomo

German1771317 pages

99% OCR'd314/317

75% translated238/317

Astronomical and Astrological Works

Paracelsus, Theophrastus

German1567135 pages

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI

On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543

Latin1543413 pages

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Ausführlicher Bericht vom Gebrauch desz Instruments so titulirt physico astrologicum instrumentum

Detailed Report on the Use of the Physico-Astrological Instrument

Hafenreffer, Samuel

German164037 pages

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Af-beeldingen van sommighe in Godts-woort ervarene mannen

Portraits of some men learned in the Word of God

Verheiden, Jacobus

Dutch1603328 pages

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19% translated61/328

Source Library continues the Ficino Society's mission to transform 2500+ years of wisdom texts into a living archive.

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.