This catalog lists the primary texts written by the figures treated on this site, distinguishing what exists in modern critical editions from what remains untranslated or difficult to source. It is a working bibliography, not a claim of completeness — and it deliberately marks the gap between the secondary scholarship this project rests on and the primary sources themselves.

A note on method. The essays on this site are built from modern scholarship (Yates, Copenhaver, Zambelli, Clark, Hanegraaff, and others). The primary texts below are catalogued for transparency and further reading; where we cite a figure’s “own words,” the relevant edition is named here.

Ancient & Neoplatonic foundations

  • Plato, Timaeus — the cosmological dialogue underwriting later correspondence-cosmology. Ed. Zeyl (Hackett, 2000); Cornford, Plato’s Cosmology (1937).
  • Plotinus, Enneads — Armstrong, 7 vols (Loeb, Greek+English); Gerson et al. (Cambridge, 2018); MacKenna (public domain). Ficino’s 1492 Latin Enneads is itself a key Renaissance reception document.
  • Porphyry, Letter to Anebo, Isagoge, Life of Plotinus — the Letter is printed in the SBL De Mysteriis volume; Isagoge trans. Barnes (Oxford, 2003).
  • Iamblichus, De Mysteriis — Clarke, Dillon & Hershbell, SBL Writings from the Greco-Roman World 4 (2003), the standard Greek+English edition.
  • Proclus, Elements of Theology — Dodds, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1963).

Islamic transmission

  • Al-Kindi, De Radiis (On the Stellar Rays) — central to the medieval theory of influence, yet no standard complete English translation exists; only the Latin edition of d’Alverny & Hudry (1974).
  • Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), The Book of Healing (Metaphysics trans. Marmura, BYU 2005); Canon of Medicine.

Medieval Latin natural philosophy

  • Albertus Magnus, Speculum Astronomiae (attribution debated; Zambelli et al., Kluwer 1992); Book of Minerals (Wyckoff, Oxford 1967).
  • Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae IIa-IIae qq. 92–96 (superstition & divination); De occultis operibus naturae. Freely available in Latin+English.
  • Roger Bacon, Opus Majus (Burke, 2 vols, 1928); Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae.

Renaissance core

  • Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology — Allen & Hankins, 6 vols, I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard, 2001–2006), Latin+English; Three Books on Life — Kaske & Clark (1989); Letters of Marsilio Ficino — Shepheard-Walwyn, 11+ vols (1975–2020).
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (Borghesi/Papio/Riva, Cambridge 2012); 900 Theses (Farmer, Syncretism in the West, 1998); Heptaplus; Disputationes adversus astrologiam (no complete modern English).
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia — Latin critical ed. Perrone Compagni (Brill, 1992); English Tyson/Freake (Llewellyn).
  • Giordano Bruno, Cause, Principle and Unity, and Essays on Magic (de Lucca & Blackwell, Cambridge 1998 — includes De Magia and De Vinculis); Italian dialogues and full Latin Opera via the Warburg Bibliotheca Bruniana Electronica.
  • John Dee, Monas Hieroglyphica (1564); Five Books of Mystery (Peterson, Weiser 2003, free on archive.org); Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid (1570); Propaedeumata Aphoristica (Shumaker & Heilbron, 1978).

Renaissance & early-modern

  • Paracelsus, Essential Theoretical Writings — Andrew Weeks (Aries/Brill, 2008), German+English parallel, the modern standard; complete German in Sudhoff’s Sämtliche Werke (1922–33).
  • Johannes Trithemius, Steganographia (decryption keys: Ernst 1996, Reeds 1998); Polygraphia (1518).
  • Johannes Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah (Goodman, Nebraska 1993, Latin+English).
  • Giovan Battista Della Porta, Magia Naturalis — 1658 English Natural Magick free on archive.org; De Furtivis Literarum Notis (cryptography, 1563).
  • Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617–21) — vast Latin folios, never fully translated; facsimiles via e-rara / Wellcome.
  • Jacob Böhme, Aurora (Weeks & Hessayon critical English, Brill); Mysterium Magnum, Signatura Rerum (Sparrow translations online).

Anonymous & traditional texts

  • Corpus Hermeticum & Asclepius — Copenhaver, Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992).
  • Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm) — Pingree Latin (Warburg, 1986); Greer & Warnock complete English (2011).
  • Sefer Yetzirah (Kaplan); Zohar (Matt, Pritzker Edition, 12 vols, Stanford).

Critics & skeptics

  • Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) — Nicholson text free on archive.org / Gutenberg.
  • Johann Weyer, De Praestigiis Daemonum — Mora & Shea, Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance (MRTS, 1991), free on archive.org; Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (esotericarchives.com).

Untranslated or hard-to-source (priority for the project)

  1. Al-Kindi, De Radiis — no complete English translation; Latin only.
  2. Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi Historia — never fully translated.
  3. Pico, Disputationes adversus astrologiam — no complete modern English.
  4. Bruno’s full Latin magical corpus beyond the Cambridge selection.
  5. Ficino’s complete Latin Epistolae — the English is a selection.
  6. Paracelsus — only a fraction is in modern critical English.

The closest things to genuinely unpublished material are manuscript holdings — Trithemius’s Antipalus Maleficiorum, Dee’s surviving diaries beyond the printed editions (Bodleian / Sloane MSS), and Fludd’s correspondence — which would require archival digitization requests rather than purchase.