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Search IAPSOP IAPSOP Home About IAPSOP IAPSOP Practices Contribute to IAPSOP Contact IAPSOP IAPSOP Privacy Policy IAPSOP Home Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals Private and Mail-Order Lessons Ephemera Spirit History The Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus (SSOC) The Standard Spiritualist and Occult Corpus (SSOC) is an open source text project, focused on book-length texts, in English , covering Spiritualism, the occult, New Thought and allied parasciences (mesmerism, magnetism, phrenology, alchemy, chiromancy and so forth) published between 1790 and 1940. Currently the SSOC consists of more than 8,000 book-length texts (approximately 2.1 million pages), and includes many of the texts considered "classics" in Spiritualism and the occult. Every text in the SSOC is supplied, free of charge, in indexed PDF form, allowing it to be electronically stored, searched, printed and converted (to image, HTML or text). The outer, later bound of the corpus is limited by copyright law . The intent behind this project is to provide, at low cost, a more or less complete document database of important primary book-length materials to all academic and non-academic researchers, aficionados, and readers interested in Spiritualism, the occult and allied parasciences. The SSOC is a curated project, with regular releases of texts, and plans for the inclusion of non-textual material related to Spiritualism, the occult and allied parasciences. The SSOC can be used as a library : texts can be drawn from it on an ad hoc basis. But, by design, the SSOC is a database , structured to sit underneath a full-text retrieval engine (like Windows Search, OS X Spotlight, Foxtrot, Copernic or X Search) to enable researchers, aficionados and readers to find all relevant materials on a particular topic at local search engine speeds, and draw materials from an owned local copy of the SSOC. The SSOC is also suitable for use as the basis for text processing applications -- named-entity recognition tools, social network analysis tools, lexical analysis tools -- that can consume either PDF files or the text or HTML files that PDFs can produce. Some text processing projects -- named entity extraction and the production of high-fidelity machine-readable text versions of the SSOC documents -- are planned by the SSOC team; please coordinate your work with the team so that there's minimal duplication of effort. Additionally, an online search engine that searches ONLY the SSOC corpus is effectively available, via Google, using the "site:iapsop.com/ssoc/" argument in a Google Search, as in the example below. This option may be suitable for occasional users who are interested in pinpointing a selection of texts to download, but is not intended as a substitute for an owned local copy of the entire SSOC. You can also use the Search option in the top bar of this page to access a search facility that can be made SSOC-specific. Access to the SSOC has additional benefits, including the ability to check others' citations and re-establish the context lost through conventional citational apparatus easily, as well as the ability to fact-check and test assertions made about aspects of Spiritualist, occult and parascientific discourse between the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the Second World War. If you have questions that are not answered by the material provided, if you find a bug in the SSOC distribution, if you have concerns or issues with the corpus, or if you have book length primary material to contribute to the SSOC, feel free to contact the SSOC maintenance team at ssoc@iapsop.com . Year Author(s) Short Title 1591 Dee Monas Hieroglyphica 1629 Heydon Theomagia 1656 Maier Themis Aurea 1659 Casaubon Dr John Dee 1659 Lilly Christian Astrology 1666 Stubbe The Miraculous Conformist 1669 Olben Pantherism 1677 Rosenroth Kabbala Denudata 1684 Rosenroth Kabbala Denudata 1685 Gadbury Ephemeris Or A Diary 1692 Partridge Mikropanastron 1694 Millen Der Heimliche 1702 Glanvill A Plurality Of Worlds 1710 Gadbury Nauticum Astrologicum 1715 De Villars Comte De Gabalis 1715 De Villars Suite Du Comte De Gabalis 1723 Du Lude Daimonologia Treatise Of Spirits 1727 Anonymous History And Reality Of Apparitions 1727 Ramsay Travels Of Cyrus 1728 Bond The Supernatural Philosopher Or Mysteries Of Magic 1729 Ingebern Chiromantia Metoposcopia Physiognomia 1729 Moreton Secrets Of The Invisible World Disclosd 1729 Moreton Defoe Secrets Of The Invisible World Disclosd 1740 Stukeley Stonehenge A Temple Restored To The British Druids 1744 Anonymous Hermippus Redivvus Sages Triumph 1750 Moore Vox Stellarum 1766 Tschoudy Letoile Flamboyante 1766 Tschoudy Letoile Flamboyante 1774 Ashmole Lilly Lives Of Ashmole And Lilly 1777 Lavater Physiognomische Fragmente 1779 Mesmer Memoire Sur La Decouverte Du Magnetisme Animal 1780 Graham The Guardian Goddess Of Health Whole Art Of Preventing Curing Diseases 1780 Graham Abstract Of Medical Transactions At The Temple Of Health 1781 Mt Memoire Physique Et Medicinal 1781 Un Medecin Lettre Dun Medecin 1783 An Adept Chrysal Or The Adventures Of A Guinea 1783 Anonymous A Poetical Epistle To Celebrated Dr Graham 1783 Nicholai Essai Sur Les Accusations Intentees Aux Templiers 1784 Anonymous Magikon Oder Geheime System 1784 Retz Memoire De La Jonglerie 1784 Sibly Complete Illustration Of Astrological And Occult Sciences 1784 Sibly Complete Illustration Of Astrological And Occult Sciences 1784 Woyts Gazophylacium Medico-physicum 1785 Arthaud Cercle Des Philadelphes 1785 Decremps Supplement A La Magie Blanche 1785 Franklin Et Alia Report On Animal Magnetism 1785 Tschoudy L Etoile Flamboyante 1785 Tschoudy L Etoile Flamboyante 1786 Puysegur Memoires Pour Servir A L Histoire Du Magnetisme Animal 1787 Adelung Geschichte Der Menschlichen Narrheit 1787 Anonymous Life Of The Count Cagliostro 1788 Bell Essay On Somnambulism 1789 Sibly Thirty Remarkable Nativities 1789 Sibly Astronomy And Elementary Philosophy 1790 Anonymous Universal Fortune Teller 1790 Anonymous Animal Magnetism Displayed 1790 Anonymous A Plain And Rational Account Of Animal Magnetism 1790 Sibley New And Complete Illustration Of Occult Sciences 1791 Anonymous Life Of Joseph Balsam 1791 Anonymous Vie De Joseph Balsamo Cagliostro 1791 Rosenthal Die Naturliche Magie 1791 Vaughan Observations On Animal Electricity 1791 Weigleb Die Naturliche Magie 1792 Anonymous The New Cheats Of London 1792 Bell General And Particular Principles Of Animal Magnetism 1793 Anonymous Every Ladys Own Fortune Teller 1793 Lavater Aphorisms On Man 1794 Doppet Traite Theorique Et Pratique Du Magnetisme Animal 1794 Hindmarsh A New Dictionary Of Correspondences 1795 Brothers Wonderful Prophecies 1795 Sibly Illustration Of The Occult Sciences 1795 Sibly Medical Mirror 1795 Sibly A Key To Physic And The Occult Sciences 1796 Swedenborg The Wisdom Of Angels 1796 Volney Ruins 1797 Barruel Memoirs Illustrating The History Of Jacobinism V1-4 1797 Dean Hocus Pocus 1798 Robison Proofs Of A Conspiracy 1798 Worsdale Genethliacal Astrology 1799 Moore Vox Stellarum 1799 Partridge Merlinus Liberatus 1799 Season Speculum Anni 1799 White Ephemeris 1799 Wing Almanack 1799 Worsdale A Collection Of Remarkable Nativities 1800 Anonymous Receuil De Traites Sur Les Sciences Occultes 1800 Lavater Lavaters Looking Glass 1800 Reid Rise And Dissolution Of The Infidel Societies 1801 Barrett The Magus Or Celestial Intelligencer 1801 Southcott The Strange Effects Of Faith 1801 Southcott Letter To Rev Stanhope Bruce 1801 Winter Animal Magnetism 1802 Corry Detector Of Quackery 1802 Payson Proofs Of Illuminism 1802 Southcott A Communication Given To Joanna In Answer To Mr Brothers Last Book 1803 Anonymous The Ladies Diary 1803 Anonymous The Gentlemans Diary 1803 Moore Vox Stellarum 1803 Partridge Merlinus Liberatus 1803 Poor Robin An Almanack 1803 Season Speculum Anni 1803 Southcott Prophecies A Warning To The Whole World 1803 White Coelestial Atlas 1803 ...