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
Dos palabras sobre la Contestacion que un cuerpo masónico del Ord.·. de Guad.·. da á la Encíclica de S.S. Leon XIII, expedida el 20 de abril de 1885
Emeterio Ortiz
1885Spanish
Dreyerley Arcana an die hocherleucte und kunstreiche Herrn der philosophischen Fraternitet vom Rosen Creutz
I. S
1619German
El Papa y las logias
Pope Leo XIII
1885Spanish
El Vaticano y los masones
Léo Taxil
1887Spanish
El conocimiento secreto
José Luis Espejo
2009Spanish
El embaucador
Lluís Pifarré
2012Spanish
El enigma de las sociedades secretas
Peter Gitlitz
1980Spanish
El gallo de S. Pedro
F. Margallo
1823Spanish
Ellos
Nacho Díaz Latorre
2018Spanish
Enigmas de la Alemania del III Reich
Mercedes Compte
2013Spanish
Epistola á nação franceza
Faustino José da Madre de Deos
1823Portuguese
Epitimia Fr. R.C., das ist, Endliche Offenbahrung oder Entdeckung und Verthäydigung des hochlöblicher Ordens dess Rosencreutzes ..
Friedrich Grick
1619German
Ernst und Falk
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1778German
Estatutos de la S. de la R.
Sociedad de la R
1866Spanish
Examinato brevissima
Hojeh Bilthius
1617German
Exposiçaõ franca sobre a maçoneria
Ex-maçon que abjurou a sociedade
1828Portuguese
Ėzotericheskoe dvizhenie v Rossii kont︠s︡a XVIII-pervoĭ poloviny XIX vv
I︠U︡. I︠U︡riĭ Evgenʹevich Kondakov, Ю. Е. Кондаков
2018Russian
Fama fraternitatis, dess löblichen ordens des Rosencreutzes, an alle gelehrte und häupter Europä geschrieben
Johann Valentin Andreä
1781German
Folleto oficial del Grande Oriente Nacional de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela
Freemasons. Gran Logia de la República de Venezuela
1894Spanish
Françmaçonnerie
Jean Marie Ragon
1860French
Freimaurerische Fundamente Amerikas
Theodore Rutherford
2024German
Frimurerne i vikingtiden
Arvid Ystad
2016Norwegian
G.J.G.E., ou, Chevalier Kados
Radcliffe College. Library
1781French
Gang Ao Tai hei she hui shi lu
Bangfu Peng, 彭邦富．, Xiangyang070 Gao
1999Chinese