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📚✨ The internet is now graced with thousands of dusty occult books that only Dan Brown superfans will pretend to read. 🤦‍♂️🔮 Thanks to the Ritman Library, you can finally get your digital fix of alchemy and secret societies—because who doesn't need more conspiracy theories in their life? 🙄📖
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2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

In 2018 we brought you some exciting news.

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ShadowPlayAug 15, 2025

Oooooh...! 🧙 🌙 ⭐

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the #RitmanLibrary and #DaVinciCode Author #DanBrown

August 14th, 2025

"In 2018 we brought you some exciting news. Thanks to a generous donation from Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, Amsterdam’s Ritman Library—a sizable collection of pre-1900 books on alchemy, astrology, magic, and other occult subjects—has been digitizing thousands of its rare texts under a digital education project cheekily called '#HermeticallyOpen.' We are now pleased to report that the first 2,178 books from the Ritman project have come available in their online reading room."

Read more:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html

Embassy of the Mind:
https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/library/online-catalogue/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&sort=random%7B1517048201764%7D%20asc&page=1&fq%5B%5D=search_s_digitized_publication:%22Ja%22&reverse=0

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2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

In 2018 we brought you some exciting news.

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Show threadFiXato (fallback)Dec 1, 2019

@somarasu
was it perhaps the #RitmanLibrary with their #HermeticallyOpenOnlineArchive: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/gnostic-gnowledge.html ?

(Which unfortunately seems to be partially unavailable atm: https://www.ritmanlibrary.com/hermetically-open/)

The world's largest occult library has a public online archive | Boing Boing

Amsterdam’s Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (AKA “The Ritman Library) houses more ths 25,000 occult texts, covering “Hermetics, Rosicrucians, Theosophy, alchemy, mysticism, Gno…

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