📚 Hermetism

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with hermetism on their catalogue record, first published between 1584 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hermetism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 619 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Kybalion	Three Initiates	1912	122
Spaccio de la bestia trionfante	Giordano Bruno	1584	35
The Kybalion	William Walker Atkinson	1942	18
Poemander	Hermes Trismegistus.	1584	11
Jean d'Espagnet's the Summary of Physics Restored	Thomas Willard	2018	10
Corpus hermeticum	Hermes Trismegistus	1945	8
El Kybalion	Tres Iniciados	1969	8
Life is real only then, when "I am"	Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff	1975	7
Emerald Tablet of Hermes	Hermes Trismegistus	2011	7
Swedenborg, a hermetic philosopher	Ethan Allen Hitchcock	1858	6
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition	Frances Amelia Yates	1964	6
Academie de l'espée	Gérard Thibault	1628	5
The secret teachings of all ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1975	5
The Secret Teachings of All Ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1978	5
Esotérisme	Benoist, Luc	1988	5
Kybalion	Three Initiates Staff	2010	5
Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy	Atwood	2012	5
Occult Features of Anarchism	Erica Lagalisse	2018	5
Corpus hermeticum	Hermes Trismegistus.	1945	4
John Dee	Peter J. French	1972	4
The Zelator	David Ovason	1999	4
Divine Magic	Doreen Virtue	2006	4
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus	Florian Ebeling	2006	4
Kybalion	The Three The Three Initiates	2014	4
Hermetica II	M. David Litwa	2018	4
Nature Word	René-Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz	1982	3
The Egyptian Hermes	Garth Fowden	1986	3
John Dee's Natural Philosophy	Nicholas H. Clulee	1988	3
The Tower of Alchemy	David Goddard	1999	3
The zelator	Mark Hedsel	1999	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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