Established 1907 · Bloomsbury WC1

The Vaughan Institute
for the Study of the Western Esoteric Tradition

Founded in 1907 as the Vaughan Library of Hermetic Philosophy, the Institute maintains a research library and a small permanent collection concerning the history of hermetic, alchemical, and esoteric learning in Britain and Europe. The reading room is open to researchers by written appointment. The collection is not currently open to general visitors, though the Institute’s principal holdings may be examined through the online catalogue.

The Institute is best known as custodian of the surviving papers and instruments of the so-called Order of the Seven Gates, received by bequest in 1919. Enquiries regarding the Deposit should be directed to the Keeper in the first instance.