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
Illuminati-Wahrheit: Von Bayern-Ursprung zu modernem Mythos
Oliver Reuter
2026German
Im Netz der Loge
Gottfried Berner
1892German
Iniziazione e segreto massonico
Manlio Maradei
1997Italian
Instruction à la France sur la vérité de l'histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix
Gabriel Naudé
1623French
Iyo he sido impió!
José Huertas Lozano
1892Spanish
Joh. Val. Andreae Dichtungen zur Beherzigung unseres Zeitalters
Johann Valentin Andreä
1786German
Joh. Valentini Andreae, Jacobi Andreae, nepotis, Menippus, sive, Dialogorvm satyricorum centuria
Johann Valentin Andreä, Georgius Schulzius, Rupert Bolders
1673Latin
Johann Valentin Andreae und die vier echten Rosenkreutzer-Schriften
R. Kienast
1926German
K istorīi taĭnykh obshchestv i kruzhkov sredi litovsko-polʹskoĭ molodezhi v 1819-1923 gg
Teodor Wierzbowski
1898Russian
Konspiracja trzech pokoleń
Przemysław Waingertner
2017Polish
L'"occultisme nazi"
Stéphane François
2020French
L'Ordre des Francs-maçons trahi et le secret des Mopses revelé
Pérau M. l'abbé
1745French
L'accademia Pessoa
Errico Buonanno
2007
L'alba dell'Europa liberale
Francesco Leoncini
2012Italian
L'evoluzione della massoneria
Luigi Sessa
1997Italian
L'égalité sociale, ou, Les jésuites et les francs-maçons dans le gouvernement des peuples depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours
Émil Peter
1893French
La Iglesia y la masoneria
Antonio José de Sucre, Manuel Segundo Sánchez, Alban Stolz, Jean Guillaume Gyr
1864Spanish
La Mythologie des sociétés secrètes
J. M. Roberts
1979French
La bible des sociétés secrètes
Joel Levy
2011French
La clave: Maranata
Beatriz Ortega
2009Spanish
La confrérie des chasseurs Malinké et Bambara
Youssouf Tata Cissé
1994BAM
La congiura degli illuminati
René Chandelle
2005Italian
La conspiración del Mesías
Miguel Pedrero
2007Spanish
La conspiración mundial y cómo acabar con ella
David Icke
2013Spanish