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
Clypeus veritatis
Friedrich Grick
1618German
Comment on devient artiste
Joséphin Péladan
1894French
Comment on devient fée
Joséphin Péladan
1893French
Comment on devient mage
Joséphin Péladan
1892French
Compagnonnage solonnel
L.-P Riche-Gardon
1859French
Complementum astronomiae und aussführliche Erklerung des fünffjahrigen Prognostici 1619. zu Hall gedruckt
Paul Nagel
1620German
Comprendre les sociétés secrètes
Run Futthark
2002French
Comte de Gabalis
Nicolas Pierre Henri de Montfaucon de Villars
1670French
Con los pies en la tierra
Juan Marcos Ferragud Seguí
2009Spanish
Conjuration contre la religion catholique, et les souverains
Lefranc, François abbé
1792French
Conspiration de Russie
Russia. Komissii︠a︡ dli︠a︡ izyskaniĭ o zloumyshlennykh obshchestvakh
1826French
Contrat social, surnomé union francmaçone
Pierre-André Gargas
1797French
Correspondence entre la R. Lo. Française l'Amenité, No. 73, séante à l'Orient de Philadelphie, et sa soeur affiliée la T.R. Lo. française le choix des vrais amis, séante à l'O. de Marseille
Freemasons. Loge Française l'Amenité
1802French
Cours philsosphique et interprétatif des initiations anciennes et modernes
Jean Marie Ragon
1841French
Crisis social, política y territorial en el reinado de Fernando VII
Fernando Suárez Bilbao
2023Spanish
Crónica del Congreso Antimasónico Internacional, celebrado en Trento en 1896
Congreso Antimasónico Internacional
1896Spanish
Cuadro de los miem.·. que componen la R.·. L.·. de San Juan de Escocia
Dominican Republic) Freemasons. Logia "Cuna de América no. 2" (Santo Domingo
1859Spanish
D. O. M. A. Crux absq
Vitus del Capo de la Bona Speranza pseud
1617German
D.O.M.A. Analysis Confessionis Fraternitatis de Rosea Crvce
Andreas Libavius
1615Latin
D.O.M.A. Examen philosophiæ novæ, qvæ veteri abrogandæ opponitvr: ..
Andreas Libavius
1615Latin
DAS VERBORGENE PROGRAMM – Wer kontrolliert unsere Welt?
Udo Reitter
2025German
Dalla massoneria al terrorismo
Giovanni Francesco Carpeoro
2016Italian
Das Buch der Mysterien
Otto Henne am Rhyn
1890German
Das Rosenkreutz
Will-Erich Peuckert, Rolf Christian Zimmermann
1973German