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
Geheime Wege des Tantra
Duran Than
2025German
Geheimes Wissen - Im Schatten von Ashoka
Rainauld Guterres
2025German
Geschichte der Grossen National-Mutter-Loge der Preussischen Staaten genannt Zu den drei Weltkugeln
Freemasons. Germany. Grosse National-Mutter-loge zu den drei Weltkugeln
1875German
Geschichte der geheimen Verbindungen der neuesten Zeit
Johann Ferdinand Neigebaur
1831German
Geschichte der geheimen gesellschaften und der republikanischen partei in Frankreich
Lucien de la Hodde
1851German
Gjallarhorn
Skúli Unnar Sveinsson, Tómas Hansson, Guðmundur Ragnar Magnússon, Freysteinn Gunnarsson, Lárus Ingólfsson
2023Icelandic
Gu fei zong lu
Fengwen Su
1889Chinese
Hai di
Zifeng Li, 李子峰
1990Chinese
Hidden Brotherhoods
Kilian Jung
2026German
Hirten-Brief an die wahren und ächten Freymäurer alten Systems
Ernst Philipp freiherr von Sensburg
1785German
Histoire des chevaliers du Christ
Jean-Claude Le Masson
1999French
Histoire pittoresque de la franc-maçonnerie et des sociétés secrètes anciennes et modernes
F.-T B.-Clavel
1843French
Historia de las sociedades secretas
Ramiro A. Calle
1996Spanish
Historia de las sociedades secretas antiguas y modernas en España
Vicente de la Fuente
1870Spanish
Historia masonerii i innych towarzystw tajnych
Feliksa Eger
2006Polish
Historique des sociétés initiatiques secrètes
Robert-Jean Klein
2006French
Hong men, Qing bang yu Ge lao hui yan jiu
Fucheng Chen, 陳福成
2014Chinese
Honores fúnebres tributados por la M.R.G.L. de la Rep. de Ven. al M.I.H. General Santiago Mariño, Ser. Gr. Maest. del Gr. Or. Nacional
Manuel Segundo Sánchez
1854Spanish
Houng
Frédérick Tristan
1987French
Humanum Genus
Davide Consonni, Carlo Maria Di Pietro
2015Italian
I Massoni
Marcel Valmy
1991Italian
Il nuovo ordine mondiale degli illuminati
Massimo Guzzinati
2019Italian
Il segreto e le società segrete
Georg Simmel
2024Italian
Illuminaten: Die verborgene Weltmacht?
Franklin Wild
2025German