What to Read After The forge and the crucible
Readers who loved The forge and the crucible by Mircea Eliade keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The forge and the crucible is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The forge and the crucible
The hermetica
Real Alchemy
From Ritual to Romance
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
On the Kabbalah and its symbolism
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
Hermetica
Revolt against the modern world
The magician's companion
The complete Enochian dictionary
Conversations with Ogotemmeli
Psychology and Alchemy
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition
The origins of the Mithraic mysteries
The sacred and the profane
Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
Myth and reality
A history of religious ideas
The king and the corpse
Images and Symbols
Re-visioning psychology
The dream and the underworld
The interpretation of fairy tales
Inner Work