This shelf gathers historical works from the modern occult revival and its ceremonial, Hermetic, Theosophical, alchemical, and New Thought currents. The root collection ranges from Francis Barrett and Éliphas Lévi to A. E. Waite, The Kybalion, and Herbert Silberer; Reincarnation and Karma has its own room.

These books document influential modern syntheses rather than speaking for every religious or philosophical tradition they borrow from. Their historical claims, cultural generalizations, and patterns of adaptation should be read critically and compared with the traditions' own sources.