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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? 🙄📖
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html #occultbooks #digitalalchemy #conspiracytheories #DanBrown #fans #RitmanLibrary #HackerNews #ngated -
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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#Occult #DigitizedBooks #OccultBooks #OccultHistory #AleisterCrowley #MadameBlavatsky
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@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/)