Curated Collections

Rooms and shelves within the archive.

22 collections

A collection gathers works that belong together by subject or lineage, even when they sit in different traditions. Each one is assembled by hand, paired with a guide or reading path, and stays current as the catalogue grows.

A dark shelf of clasped leather grimoires lit by a single candle
The Solomonic Cycle
The grimoires attributed to Solomon and their descendants.
A Victorian study with ritual papers, a lamp and bound notebooks on a dark desk
The Golden Dawn Corpus
The order that shaped modern ceremonial magic.
A Himalayan mountain range at dusk in deep blue and gold
Theosophy and Blavatsky
The movement that joined East and West in one esoteric vocabulary.
A Renaissance scholar’s table with an astrolabe, a globe and open folios
Renaissance Magic
The magus as philosopher: learned magic of the sixteenth century.
An antiquarian cabinet holding papyrus fragments and a carved scarab
Egyptian Mysteries
Egypt as source, symbol and imagined origin of the mysteries.
A Chinese ink landscape of misted mountains and pines
Eastern Wisdom
The contemplative classics of India, China and Tibet.
An ancient codex resting on a lectern in a stone niche
Foundational Hermetica
The writings of Thrice-Great Hermes.
Vellum folios, glass flasks and a small furnace in a dim workshop
Classics of Alchemy
The laboratory and the oratory: texts of the Great Work.
Folios and rolled scrolls beside an oil lamp and a pomegranate
Core Kabbalistic Texts
The Tree, the Book of Formation and the Book of Splendour.
Old pamphlets tied with ribbon beside a dried rose and a wax seal
The Rosicrucian Manifestos
Three pamphlets that invented an invisible brotherhood.
An obsidian mirror, an engraved wax disk and a crystal on dark cloth
John Dee and Enochian Magic
The Elizabethan magus and the language of angels.
A gaslit Parisian study with stacked books and a window onto the night
The French Occult Revival
Paris, 1850–1900: where modern occultism found its voice.
A round séance table with a planchette under low candlelight
Spiritism and Psychic Research
The séance room and the laboratory, 1848–1930.
Rembrandt’s Aristotle in golden light resting a hand on a bust of Homer
Foundations of Esoteric Philosophy
Plato, Pythagoras and the Neoplatonists: the roots beneath the tree.
Spitzweg’s bookworm on a library ladder among towering shelves
Sacred Books of the World
The scriptures of humanity, side by side.
An ordered row of bound volumes with a brass square and compasses
The Masonic Shelf
The Craft, its symbols and its historians.
A view through a dark rock arch toward a luminous distant landscape
The Jungian Esoteric Shelf
The psyche as the new temple of the mysteries.
Rogier van der Weyden’s Magdalen seated in green, absorbed in a book
Women in Mysticism and Spiritualism
Founders, visionaries and scholars of the inner life.
Bundled old journals tied with string beside a brass lamp
Occult Periodicals and Rare Journals
The movement’s conversation, issue by issue.
An engraved-style alchemical allegory with a flask, sun and moon, a green lion and an ouroboros on an open antique book
Alchemical Emblem Books
Alchemy told in pictures: the emblem books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
A Victorian occultist’s study at night with a gas lamp, velvet drapes, a crystal ball, leather books and a séance table
Victorian Occultism
Gaslight, learned societies and the making of modern occultism.
Ancient papyrus codices in a clay jar in a desert cave, lit by a single shaft of light
Foundational Gnostic Texts
The voices of the Gnostics, and the witnesses who preserved them.