The Book of Tobit is one of the few Apocryphal works that managed to find its way into some canonized compilations. Present as an important Judaist work, it is absent from the KJV and most standard protestant editions. Treating on the nature of demons, specifically Asmodeus, it includes a visit by the archangel Raphael to Tobias, son of Tobit, and several rites involved with miraculous healing.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is best known for his three books of Occult Philosophy. Living in the 16th century, Agrippa was a true Renaissance man, and this text shows his full philosophical capabilities on display. Pointing to the trope of the heroine and the divine feminine, Agrippa decries his "giddy age" and condemns the abuse of women in legal and social affairs, using multiple spiritual traditions to point to their actual philosophical equality.

The Aphorisms of Urbigerus contain one hundred short sections, statements on alchemy, the creation of elixir, and the processing of materials according to Hermetic tradition. Written in 1690, it provides one of the most detailed looks at the alchemical process in its age. Repudiating charlatans and "vulgar chemists," the work forsakes the veils of spirituality and delivers to the reader a largely literal description of the creation of philosophical medicine.

Roger Bacon is known for his many works, dealing not only with chemical matters but grammar and optics as well. This particular work revolves around the use of alchemy in medicine, specifically the use of antimony and lead. This would directly inform later works such as "A work of Saturn" by Hollandus. The use of malleable, antimonial compounds in medicine would continue for centuries, and according to Roger Bacon it is this universal elixir which comprises the highest tier of the alchemical art.

The Kitab Sirr Al-Asrar, later entitled "Secretum Secretorum" and attributed (dubiously) to Aristotle, purports to be a manuscript delivered in the form of multiple messages from the same ancient philosopher to Alexander the Great. Advising him on medicine, philosophy, battle, governance, and spiritual piety, the text is a cross section of medieval social order and spiritual thinking. This edition has been rendered from archaic English into modern language.

The Turba Philosophorum is one of the greatest and most well regarded texts within all of alchemy. Written around 900AD, it was quickly accepted within the chemical lexicon of the age and proceeded to vastly influence most later works. It combines veiled and metaphoric dialogue with interjecting explanations thereof delivered in the form of conversation. The subject matter ranges from the meaning of alchemical terms, to the creation of Tyrian dye, to the refining of chemical compounds, to criticism of the vulgar, or, as the Turba terms it, the envious. It treats the subject of the...

Through the 19th century and well into the 20th, quack medicine was often coupled with spirituality. No manuscript shows this on more full display, perhaps, than Doctor Pierces' Dream Book. This work combines dream interpretation with medical testimonials and recipes. A symbol of the late 19th century, the work of Pierce involving supposedly herbal remedies combined with an almost Frankenstein-esque fixation on then-modern science fuses together the old and the new in an era of consumption and superstition.

Part of a long tradition of fortune telling and oracle-based divination texts ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte among other historical figures, the Hieroglyphical Fortune Teller provides a general system for asking questions related largely to wealth, love, and health. Originally crafted in 1832, it is an expansive and easy to use occult work, regardless of its background of manufacture.