New Age, Mysticism & Comparative Religion
al-Hallaj: Mystic Martyr of Sufism
Bookshelf Tour (Part 1?)
Divining the Feminine in Tibet: Saga & Sādhana of Yeshe Tsogyal
Halloween Special - The City of Brass (1001 Nights)
How a 15th-Century Cardinal Changed Philosophy Forever
How Pagan Was Medieval Britain?
I Study Religion - What Books Do I Own? I Bookshelf Tour Part 2
Ibadism - The Forgotten Branch of Islam
Ibn 'Arabi & The Unity of Being
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) - The Greatest Muslim Philosopher?
Inayat Khan & Universal Sufism
Is Islam The Religion of Love?
John Scotus Eriugena - The Most Dangerous Idea of the Dark Ages
JP26 | Understanding the Meaning of Alchemy: Jung's Metaphor for the Transformative Process
JP34 | The Way of the Sly One: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, & Jung; with Ken James
Modern Druids - Ronald Hutton
Neoplatonism in Islamic Thought
Paganism in Roman Britain
Pseudo-Dionysius: The Father of Mysticism?
Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Religion in Ancient Greece
Rumi - The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World
Sufism & The Metaphysics of Love
Sufism in Morocco
The Bezels of Wisdom - Ibn 'Arabi's Controversial Masterpiece
The Divine Feminine: A Modern Genealogy
The Forgotten Mystical Book of Early Christianity
The Mysterious Sabians of Harran: A Lost Religion
The Origins of Modern Paganism - Ronald Hutton
The Sufi Muslim Warrior Who Protected Christians
The Truth Shall Set Whom Free? Esoteric Knowledge, Alternative Spirituality, and Conspiracy Theories
The Wohl Lecture 2026 - Heidi Heimann and the archetype of Hermes
Viking Pagan Gods in Britain
Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? - Ronald Hutton
What is Jihad?
What is Modern Paganism? - Ronald Hutton
What is my Religion? - Q&A
What is Shia Islam? - The Isma'ilis
What is Sufi Music? (The Sound of Islamic Mysticism)
What is Sufism?
What is Zoroastrianism?
Where did Modern Paganism start? - Ronald Hutton
Who are the Druze?
History of Magic & Folklore
A Material World | The Anatomy of Ritual: Votive Body Parts in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond
Aby Warburg and the Spirit of Capitalism
Arts of the Critical Zone: with Bruno Latour, Joseph Leo Koerner and Frédérique Aït-Touati
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 10 of 14 - Apuleius
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 14 of 14 - The Platonic Underworld
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 2 of 14 - The Old Academy, pt 1
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 6 of 14 - Philo of Alexandria
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 7 of 14 - Plutarch & Dualism
Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 9 of 14 - The Handbook of Alcinous
Bridget: Goddess and Saint - Ronald Hutton
Cannibalism in the minds and imaginations of Early Modern Europeans and Americans
Classical Reception and Reimaginings in Renaissance Literature by Dr Lucy Nicholas
Contemporary Enochian Magick w/ Maevius Lynn
Conversion and Transformation - Ido Harari, Andreas Kilcher, Chaim Hames
Curatorial Conversations | Mysticism in the Museum: M.K. Čiurlionis and Luigi Pericle in London
Dionysus: Lord of Misrule - Ronald Hutton
Dragons: A History - Ronald Hutton
European Magic and its Traditions - Islamic Magic
European Magic and its Traditions - Jewish Magic
European Magic and its Traditions | Classical and Christian Magic
Frances A. Yates: Work and Legacy: Day 1
Frances A. Yates: Work and Legacy: Day 2
Hecate: Mistress of Magic - Ronald Hutton
How Angel Magic Gave Us the Internet - The Steganographia of Trithemius
Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - 11 of 15 - Qualifications & Praxes of the Merkavah
Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - 6 of 15 - The Four that Entered the Garden
Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - 7a of 15 - The Map is Not Territory
OpenLFM Lecture 22 by Pannill Camp
Pop Apocalypse: Ecstatic Knowledge and the Study of Religion - Feat. Jeffrey J. Kripal
Reasonably Irrational: Theurgy and the Pathologization of Entheogenic Experience
Renaissance Lives | Erasmus of Rotterdam: the Spirit of a Scholar
Renaissance Lives | Rubens’s Spirit from Ingenuity to Genius
Shakespeare's Ghosts and Spirits - Sir Jonathan Bate FBA CBE
Stargates | 'Ficino and the Sun - New Insight and New Documents' presented by Stéphane Toussaint
Stargates: 'Scientific Utopia versus Magic in the Thirteenth Century' by Nicolas Weill-Parot
Techgnosis Today
The Complete History Of The Celts In 2.5 Hours
The Magic of Ancient Games | Dr. Irving Finkel
The Return of the Horned God - Ronald Hutton
The Western Magical Tradition - Ronald Hutton
The Western Magical Tradition - Ronald Hutton
Theory and Practice of Magic Circles Roundtable feat. Dr. Stephen Skinner
Warburg Director's Seminar | Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined
Who was the Headless God in Ancient Egypt & The Greek Magical Papyri ?
Why the Historical Jesus Matters - Conversation with @JamesTaborVideos
Alchemy & Hermeticism
Alchemy - Isaac Newton & the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
Alchemy - Origins of Alchemy in Europe - First Alchemy Book - The Composition of Alchemy ( 1144 )
Alchemy - The Life Times & Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelley - Beyond John Dee and Enochian Magic
Alchemy - Where to Begin - Introduction to the Summa Perfectionis (Sum of Perfection) Pseudo-Geber
Alchemy in the Islamic World
Distilling The Alchemical Feminine
Hermetic Philosophy - Earliest European Hermeticism - Crater Hermetis - Ludovico Lazzarelli
How Alchemy & Hermeticism Revolutionized Medicine | Introduction to Paracelsus pt II
How Alchemy was a Weapon Against the Anti-Christ - the Apocalyptic Prophecies of John of Rupescissa
How Aristotle Accidentally Helped to Invent Alchemy (and got nearly everything wrong)
How Theosophy Created Spiritual Alchemy - The Alchemy of Jakob Böhme
Introduction to Alchemy (FIA Lecture)
Mutus Liber - The Wordless Book of Alchemical Transmutation - Analysis of Alchemy from 1677
Renaissance Lives | Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
Renaissance Lives | Paracelsus: an Alchemical Life
Restoration of a 500 Year Old Book of Hermetic Wisdom
The Demiurge, Marcion and the Corpus Hermeticum - Conversation w @m.davidlitwa
The First Book of Alchemy You Should Study
The Occult Alchemy - A Lost Alchemical Textbook of Agrippa Has Been FOUND!
The Origins of Hermeticism? Petosiris, High Priest of Thoth
The Re-Discovery of Alchemy - Conversation w/ Prof. Lawrence M. Principe
The Revolutionary Break in Philosophy, Astrology, Medicine & Magic | Introduction to Paracelsus pt I
Using the Weapons of the Satan Against Him: Introduction to Paracelsus pt III
What is Alchemy?
What is Hermeticism - Then & Now? Conversation @EmbassyoftheFreeMind w/prof. Hanegraaff
What is Spiritual Alchemy - The Historical Unification of Mysticism, the Philosophers Stone & Heresy
What is the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus - Origins of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy
What is the Hermetic God & Demiurge?
What is the Philosophers Stone? Introduction to Alchemy - History of Alchemical Theory & Practice
Who is Thoth? The Egyptian God of Writing, Magic, the Moon and Fate who Became Hermes Trismegistus
Tarot & Divination
Can Women Be Prophets in Islam?
Deciphering the Secrets of Mesopotamian Divination | Dr. Irving Finkel
Did Nostradamus Really Foresee History's Most Infamous Events?
Giordano Bruno: Oracle of the Infinite
How the Divine Glory became the First Angel of the Sefirot - Akhatriel | אכתריאל
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 1/14 - Israelite Prophecy and Theophany
Mysticism - Hadewijch - The Theology and Writings of the Beguine Mystic of Loving the Divine Abyss
Tarot - Origins & Afterlives | Peter Forshaw: ‘Eliphas Levi and the Occult Tarot’
Tarot - Origins & Afterlives | The Divine Man: From the ‘Mantegna Tarocchi’ to the Sola Busca Tarot
Tarot - Origins & Afterlives | Timothy Young: ‘The Origins and Afterlives of Visconti Tarocchi’
The Hidden Delight of the God Beyond God - Kabbalistic Divine Auto-Eroticism
The Origins of Evil and Qlippoth in the Divine - Kabbalah - w/@Angela's Symposium
What is Theurgy? Ancient Pagan Salvation through Ritual, Philosophy and Unity with the Divine
Yom Kippur in the Jerusalem Temple - Pronouncing the Divine Name & Holy of Holies
Witchcraft & Witch Trials
1612: The Disturbing Witch Trial That Shook Britain | The Pendle Witch Child | Chronicle
Demonic Possession, Sorcery & Satanic Pacts - Witchcraft and Exorcism in 17th Century Loudon France
Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials
How did Witchcraft become Heresy?
How Witchcraft Skepticism produced the Lesser Key of Solomon, Modern Demonology & Psychiatry
Inquisition Manuals - The Rise of Torture & How Magic Became Heresy
Is Witchcraft Going Mainstream? | Interview w/ Thorn Mooney
Legend of Blåkulla (Full Episode) | Witches: Truth Behind the Trials | Nat Geo
Medieval Historian Answers Google's Most Popular Questions About Witches!
Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton
Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton
Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent - James Wright
Snow White: Evil Witches
Snow White: Evil Witches - Joanna Bourke
The Astronomer and the Witch: Kepler's Mother
The Astronomer and the Witch: Kepler's Mother
The Delightful Demons of the Talmud and Studying Daf Yomi w/ @Miriam Anzovin
The Greatest Book on Magic, Witchcraft & the Occult - Martin Del Rio - Disquisitionum Magicarum
The Gruesome Trial of the Pendle Hill Witches | Free Documentary History
The King Obsessed With Witches
The Philosophy of Witchcraft
The Real History of Witches
The Salem Witch Hunt (Full Episode) | Witches: Truth Behind the Trials | National Geographic
The State and Future of the Occult and Witchcraft feat. Thorn Mooney and Marco Visconti
The Terror of Ireland's Witch Trials (Full Episode) | Witches: Truth Behind the Trials | Nat Geo
The Witch Hunt King: How James I. Unleashed a Century of Terror | FD History
The Witch Hunts Begin (Full Episode) | Witches: Truth Behind the Trials
The Witch-Hunter King: James I's Crusade On Witchcraft | War on Witches | Timeline
What is a Witch & Witchcraft? The Formicarius of Johannes Nider
What is the Demiurge - Pt 1 - How the God Yahweh Became a Demon
What was Moloch? Ancient Demonic God or Ritual Fire Sacrifice?
What was the Inquisition? The Origins, Theory and Practice of the Medieval War Against Heresy
Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton
Witch-Hunting in European and World History - Ronald Hutton
Witchcraft - Malleus Maleficarum - The Hammer of Witches - History and Analysis of the Inquisition
Witchcraft Among The Azande | Disappearing Worlds (Full Documentary) | Timelines
Witches Witch-Hunting and Magic in Early-Modern Europe (FIA Lecture)
Witches: Truth Behind the Trials MEGA Episode | England, Germany, & Sweden | National Geographic
Witches: Truth Behind the Trials MEGA Episode | National Geographic
History of Astrology
Astrological Necromancy & Fatalism - Why Medieval Italian Scholar Cecco d'Ascoli was Burned Alive
Astrology - Fate and Destiny in Early Judaism and Islam - History of Jewish & Muslim Astrology
Hellenistic Philosophy of Astrology - Conversation w/ Chris Brennan on Fate in the Ancient World
Shaping Mathematical Practices Of The Science of the Stars
The First Necromancer - How a Medieval Sorcerer Combined Astrology & Black Magic
Esoteric Traditions & Secret Societies
100k Esoterica Shelf Tour - What Books do I have in my Library? From Occultism to D&D to Rare Books!
@TheEsotericaChannel + @FoolishFishBooks Interview and Discussion about Books and the Occult!
Black Freemasonry and the War for Equality | University Place
Boleskine House - From Aleister Crowley to the Future - Boleskine House Foundation Interview
Boleskine House - made infamous by Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page Rises from the Ashes
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses
Gnoseologies: Angela’s Symposium: YouTube, Esotericism, and the Academia
Gospel of Thomas, Gnostic Egypt and Pistis Sophia w/ Dr. M David Litwa
Hereditary Watch Party and Occult Analysis w/ Aaron Leitch & Marco Visconti
Hitler’s Occult Obsession: The Biggest Mystery Of The Third Reich?
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 10/14 - Christian and Lurianic Kabbalah
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 11/14 - Sabbateanism and Mystical Heresy I
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 12/14 - Sabbateanism and Mystical Heresy II
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 13/14 - Kabbalah Endures & Hasidism
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 14/14 - Kabbalah in the Contemporary World
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 2/14 - Rise and Impact of Apocalypticism
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 3/14 - Merkabah Shi'ur Komah & Sar Torah
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 4/14 - Jewish Magic
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 5/14 - Sefer Yeztirah and Bahir
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 6/14 - Early Kabbalah
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 7/14 - Sefer Zohar I
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 8/14 - Sefer Zohar II
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Part 9/14 - Safedian Kabbalah
Islamicate Occult Sciences & The Picatrix | Liana Saif
Knights Templar: The Hidden History Of The Warrior Monks | Knights Templar: Rise & Fall | Timeline
Knights Templar: The Rise And Fall Of The Mysterious Warrior Monks | Knights Templar | Time Team
Magic and the Occult in Islam: Ahmad al-Buni (622H/1225CE?) and his Shams Al-Ma'arif
Masonic Nation: How the Ideals of Freemasonry Touched America An Evening with Mitch Horowitz
Mithras: Master of Mystery - Ronald Hutton
Music and the Esoteric Imagination: A Talk with Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls w/ @DrKippDavis
The Dark Side Of The Freemasons: Unmasking 600-Years Of Secret Brotherhood
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 11 of 14 - The Mystical Works II
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 13 of 14 - The 1533 De Occulta
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 4 of 14 - Esoteric Influences
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 5 of 14 - Magical Reformation
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 6 of 14 - The Occult Philosophy I
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 7 of 14 - The Occult Philosophy II
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 8 of 14 - The Occult Philosophy III
The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 9 of 14 - The Occult Philosophy IV
Ways of Knowing through the Changing Landscapes of Esoteric Art
What is Jewish Mysticism? (Kabbalah)
What is the Dybbuk ? Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Kabbalah
What was Jeuian Gnosticism -- Conversation with Erin Evans-Walker on Ancient Mystic Ascent
‘Egypt as the epitome of symbolism, Freemasonry and Warburg's "Nachleben"’ by Florian Ebeling
Library: Books · Articles · Software
Books (public domain)
- Project Gutenberg — Occultism
- Gutenberg — Witchcraft
- Gutenberg — Alchemy
- Gutenberg — Astrology
- Internet Archive — Witchcraft collection (Cornell)
- Wellcome Collection — digitised books
Articles & encyclopedias
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Alchemy
- SEP — Hermeticism
- The Public Domain Review — Magic & Occult
- Folger Shakespeare Library — Witchcraft
- Warburg Institute — research
- Smithsonian Magazine — witch trials
Software (free & open)
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