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Hermetically Open
A journey through 2,000 years of collected wisdom.
The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, in Amsterdam — now readable, page by page, in the House with the Heads.
From the digital collection
Newly translated, every week.
Welcome
Step inside the House with the Heads.
A seventeenth-century canal house holding one of the world's great collections of hermetic, alchemical, and mystical texts — open to visitors, scholars, and the simply curious.
The collection in symbols
Five centuries of emblems, by subject.
Explore the Imagery
Symbols and motifs across the translated works.
Proof of life
The recovery is ongoing.
The rediscovery of ancient wisdom helped spark the Renaissance. It's time for another.