What is it like to explore the modern mystical secrets?

We watch TV series like "a Discovery of Witches" and wonder what that would be like for us to read Elias Ashmole's secret books. Books where the text turns to fire and light.
Well, we can look at Elias Ashmoles real books and see what it means for us in the modern world, far removed from the year 1652.

Will that knowledge catch fire within us and turn to light too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Ashmole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum

The Ashmolean being the best collection of British esoteric literature, made famous in many movies and books.