
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.
Emblems, Engravings & Visual Knowledge
Books prized for their visual content — emblem books, illustrated encyclopedias, architectural treatises, anatomical atlases, and the masterworks of early modern printmaking. This collection highlights the visual imagination of the pre-photographic age: Alciato's emblems, Kircher's elaborate engravings, the woodcuts of the Dance of Death tradition, and the technical illustrations that made complex ideas visible. Browse these in the gallery for the full visual experience.

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[Vaughan, Thomas]
[Grick, Friedrich]

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Lambspringk
Naudé, Gabriel
Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius
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[Maier, Michael]
Paracelsus, Theophrastus

Bacon, Roger

Sperber, Julius
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[Moscherosch, Johann Anton]
Hellwig, Johann Otto von
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[Michelspacher, Stephan]
Norton, Samuel
[Morienus]
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Paracelsus, Theophrastus|[Siebmacher, Johann Ambrosius]
[Vreeswyk, Goossen van]
[Colonne, François-Marie-Pompée]
[Loos, Onesime Henri de]
[Ritter, Franz]
[Starkey, George]

Bacon, Roger

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Sperber, Julius

Meerheim, Johann Gottfried
[Grick, Friedrich]
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Basilius Valentinus
Weigel, Valentin
Naxagoras, Ehrd de
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Clavier Duplessis
Zoroaster
Ulstad, Philip|Ficino, Marsilio
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Glauber, Johann Rudolph
[Bracesco, Giovanni]|Geber|Lull, Ramón
Geber
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Le Pelletier, Jean|Starkey, George
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[Hoffmann, Gottlieb?]