3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

I suspect I&#x27;m one of the few readers here (@cstross being another) for whom this is genuinely important professional information. And it&#x27;s fantastic.<p>Sadly no mention of license there, though - kinda vital if one is intending to use some of the imagery in remix works - although given the texts are thoroughly out of copyright I&#x27;d assume that&#x27;s not too big an issue.

I was totally unaware that this Ritmam library existed. I can’t pretend to be into the occult, but I like the idea of studying people who are&#x2F;we’re, and this seems like a terrific resource.<p>Only downside...<p>You want Great Old Ones? Because this is how you get Great Old Ones.

The Ritman library is absolutely wonderful, and open to the public without appointment; if you find yourself in Amsterdam, it&#x27;s absolutely worth it to go ring their doorbell and look around. It was the highlight of my post-high-school Europe trip.

Whatever happened to that giant library of scanned books that Google created?

It would truly be great to see the actual texts of early cryptography like Trithemius and John Dee.

Anyone else reminded of the The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross? Am now expecting ICOs for occult based startups . .<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Laundry_Files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Laundry_Files</a>

I think this is fantastic news. I really enjoyed reading old alchemy texts over at<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;levity.com&#x2F;alchemy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;levity.com&#x2F;alchemy&#x2F;</a><p>and like some others mentioned, just getting into mindset of people writing this and their view of the world, really opens you up about different perspectives.

Their site indicates more than 25k books (1,6k available):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;embassyofthefreemind.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;library&#x2F;online-catalogue&#x2F;?mode=gallery&amp;view=horizontal&amp;sort=random%7B1516989550519%7D%20asc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;embassyofthefreemind.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;library&#x2F;online-catalogue&#x2F;...</a>

There’s a pretty long documentary&#x2F;interview with the owner on prime video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.primevideo.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;0ND6NJX19GO8N1C0MPEE1D7UA8&#x2F;ref=sr_hom_c_unkc_1_1?sr=1-1&amp;qid=1516988507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.primevideo.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;0ND6NJX19GO8N1C0MPEE1D7UA8...</a>

Into every generation, a slayer is born...

If only it were so easy to do this (legally) for research papers...

I applaud their very, very confident reductionism.

That&#x27;s pretty cool. I mean not into it, but I think it&#x27;s worth preserving.

Aleister Crowley is dancing a jig

The soulhackers are amongst us!

Does this mean we&#x27;re no longer allowed to make fun of renowned author Dan Brown[1]?<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;books&#x2F;authors&#x2F;dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;books&#x2F;authors&#x2F;dont-make-fun-of-re...</a>

Holy shit yes. It&#x27;s too bad it&#x27;s pre-1900s. I found something called the Vampire Bible once and it was seriously the funniest thing I ever read.

&gt; “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy,<p>I don&#x27;t understand, what&#x27;s really the use of any of this stuff except for their insight into history and as precursors to science. There&#x27;s no way any of this stuff has any meaningful application today.<p>I also don&#x27;t understand how anyone can find this stuff interesting, they&#x27;re often boring, hard to read, and filled with obviously erroneous information