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
De Geheimen der Vrijmetselarij in het licht van onzen tijd
Alexander Adam
1889Dutch
Defensa de la encíclica "Humanum genus" contra los ataques de un cuerpo masónico de Guadalajara
Estudiante
1885Spanish
Del temple al Opus Dei
Chema Ferrer
2010Spanish
Den ældgamle og berømte Frimurerorden, eller, det hemmelige Forbund imellem Ridderne af den hellige Grav
L. N. Bjørn
1818Danish
Der Abelit
Essen
1746German
Der Code der Illuminaten
Walter Brendel
2024German
Der Kontakt zur Dritten Macht
Gilbert Sternhoff
2024German
Des mondes souterrains au roi du monde
Serge Hutin
1977French
Deutsche Geheimgesellschaften
Jost Hermand
2013German
Diccionario enciclopédico de las sectas
Manuel Guerra Gómez
1999Spanish
Dicionário ilustrado de maçonaria
Sebastião Dodel dos Santos
1984Portuguese
Die Frau des Seiltänzers
Philipp Vandenberg
2026German
Die Funktion des Geheimnisses in der Freimaurerei und bei den Illuminaten
Dennis Schürer
2026German
Die Judenfrage und der Freimaurerbund
August von Reinhardt
1893German
Die Scanner
Robert M. Sonntag
2024German
Die drei ältesten Kunsturkunden der Freimaurerbrüderschaft
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
1849German
Die drey aeltesten geschichtlichen Denkmale der teutschen Freymaurerbrüderschaft sammt Grundzügen zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte der Freymaurerey
Friedrich Heldmann
1819German
Die freymaurerey
Ludwig Jörres
1829German
Die geheimen Drahtzieher
Hans Magenschab
2011German
Die verborgenen Eliten
Lennart Falk
2026German
Discurso pronunciado el 12 de julio de 1865 en la tenida solemne de instruccion de la L. "Union Fraternal" de Valparaiso
Isidoro Errázuriz
1865Spanish
Donesenīe sli︠e︡dstvennoĭ kommissīi
Russia. Komissii︠a︡ dli︠a︡ izyskaniĭ o zloumyshlennykh obshchestvakh
1826Russian
Donesenīe sli︠e︡dstvennoĭ kommisīi
Russia. Komissii︠a︡ dli︠a︡ izyskaniĭ o zloumyshlennykh obshchestvakh
1826Russian
Donesenĭe sli︠e︡dstvennoĭ kommissīi Ego Imperatorskomu Velichestvu
Russia. Komissii︠a︡ dli︠a︡ izyskaniĭ o zloumyshlennykh obshchestvakh
1830Russian