
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.
Poetry, Epic & Early Fiction
Literary works from classical epic to early modern fiction — Homer, Virgil, Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, and the allegorical tradition that used narrative to encode philosophical and alchemical knowledge. Includes the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, utopian fiction from Thomas More to Campanella, travel narratives real and imagined, and the mythographic tradition (Boccaccio, Conti, Cartari) that preserved classical mythology for Renaissance artists and thinkers.

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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?]