Tradition 10 of 33
Initiatory orders and secret societies
Rosicrucian, Masonic, Golden Dawn, and other initiatory, fraternal, or secret organizations.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 3,102
- Earliest
- 1396
- to 2026
- Read free
- 48%
- 1,481 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,985
- Metadata match59
- Query match58
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Freemasonry1.2K
- Secret societies583
- Freemasons436
- History332
- Rosicrucians250
- Sociétés secrètes186
- Rituals166
- Religious aspects110
- Early works to 180099
- Catholic Church94
- Geheimbund94
- Fiction86
- occultism84
- Franc-maçonnerie78
- Freimaurerei78
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn70
- Lodges67
- Symbolism59
- Histoire58
- Controversial literature55
- Social Sciences48
- christianity48
- Magic44
- John the Baptist's Day43
Top languages
- English1,613 · 52%
- German611 · 20%
- French322 · 10%
- NOT89 · 3%
- Spanish88 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Supreme Council of Canada26 books
- Johann Valentin Andreä18 books
- Joséphin Péladan16 in this tradition17 books
- George Oliver16 books
- Moritz Amster15 books
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Massachusetts13 books
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania13 books
- Joseph Gabriel Findel13 books
- Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter13 books
- Max Heindel12 in this tradition14 books
- Friedrich Grick12 in this tradition13 books
- Michael Maier11 in this tradition53 books
3,102 books
Uniformity of masonic ritual and observance
James Freemason Stevens
1879
Union, strength and wisdon
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of South Carolina
1814
Universal Masonic directory, or, Links in the golden chain of brotherhood
Leon Hyneman
1859
Urim and Thummim
John Stanford
1801
Views of Freemasonry
Samuel Lathrop
1832
Violent solutions
David MacKenzie
1996
Warum ein treuer Christ kein Glied irgend einer der bestehenden geheimen Gesell-Schaften sein, oder bleiben darf?
J. H. Sieker
1878
Washington Allston, secret societies and the alchemy of Anglo-American painting
David Bjelajac
1997
Watchfulness, essential to wisdom, strength, and beauty
George Richards
1801
We, the R. W. Master and Officers of the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 86, held at the Prince George, in the Borough of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern tht Mr. Alexander Whitehead was on the 11th day of April 1786 made an entered apprentice and passed to the degree of a fellow craft and for his attention and progress in the Masonry was on the 21st day of April 1786 rais'd to the sublime degree of a master in our Lodge, in which capacities he behaved himself as a worthy brother, and as such we recommend him to all regular lodges throughout the globe
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786
Webb's Freemason's monitor with the Michigan burial service, and other public ceremonies, together with many useful forms, the whole squaring with the national work of the Baltimore convention, as taught by the late Brother John Barney, grand lecturer
Thomas Smith Webb
1868
Worshipful master's assistant
Robert Macoy
1885
[Christian pamphlets
Daniel Webster, John Philip, M. Carey, B. F. Morris, Sansom Street Female Bible Association, Female Seamen's Friend Society, Genesee Consociation, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Committee on Foreign Missions, Pennsylvania State Temperance Society
1798
[Letter from the secretary of the Kilwinning Lodge in London, Ontario, notifying the recipient of the slate of lodge officers for 1862]
No. 64 Freemasons. Kilwinning Lodge
1862
[Resolutions of the society to render aid and sympathy to all associations and persons who are oppressed]
Charles Sumner, U.S. and B.N. America. Department of General Society Of The Rosy Cross
1865
occult roots of Nazism
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
2004
Adam Mickiewicz, philosophe mystique
Edouard Krakowski
1935French
Arioi und Mamaia
Wilhelm E. Mühlmann
1955German
Au Temps des societes secretes
Gabriel Perreux
1931French
Chapelles et societes secretes dans l'histoire
Andre Billy
1951French
Das "Junge Europa"
Hans Gustav Keller
1938German
L' Art et les mysteres
Marile
1931French
L' art et le monde des esprits
Jennifer Diane Bohn
2000German
"Anonimnyj centr"
Anton Aleksandrovič Čemakin, Dmitrij Borisovič Bologovskij
2020Russian