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
Lettre du R. P. Antoine-Marie Anderledy vicaire générale de la Compagnie de Jésus aux pères et frères de la même Compagnie
A. M. Anderledy
1885French
Lettre encyclique de Notre Très Saint Père le pape Léon XIII sur la franc-maçonnerie, 20 avril 1884
Pope Leo XIII
1884French
Liber T., oder, Portus tranquillitatis, das ist, Ein herrlicher trostreicher Bericht von dem höchsten Gut
Friedrich Grick
1620German
Liturgias masónicas del rito escocés antiguo y aceptado
Viriato Alfonso de Covadonga
1878Spanish
Los correctores del destino
Vicens Zanón
2010Spanish
Los códigos ocultos
Emilio Carrillo
2005Spanish
Los enemigos de la democracia
Jerome Morrow
2021Spanish
Los misterios de la francmasonería
Léo Taxil
1887Spanish
Lucifer démasqué
Jules Doinel
1895French
Lumen de lumine
Thomas Vaughn
1693German
Lumen de lumine, oder, Ein neues magisches Liecht geoffenbahret und der Welt
Thomas Vaughan
1693German
Maçonnerie & astrologie
E Brunet
1979French
Manifesto do Grande Oriente Luzitano contra a loja regeneração
João Damasio Roussado Gorjão
1823Portuguese
Masones y ultramontanos
Juan Utor y Fernandez
1899Spanish
Massoneria
W. Kirk MacNulty
2010Italian
Massoneria e illuminati di Baviera
Augustin Barruel
1989Italian
Massoneria e sette segrete
Epiphanius
2008Italian
Maçonnerie égyptienne, Rose-Croix et néo-chevalerie
Gérard Galtier
1989French
Meditazioni sulla massoneria
Bent Parodi
2010Italian
Memoria theologorum Wirtembergensium resusciata, h.e., Biographia praecipuorum virorum
Ludwig Melchior Fischlin
1709Latin
Menippus, sive, Dialogorum satyricorum centuria inanitatum nostratium speculum
Johann Valentin Andreä
1617Latin
Merkwürdiges Schreiben eines Römisch-Catholischen Geistlichen in Bayern, an seinen Freund und Amtsbruder in Schwaben
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature
1786German
Minguo di se
Ping Liu, 平 刘, Guoqing Li, 国庆 李
2016Chinese
Mito, massoneria, fascismo
Fabio Venzi
2001Italian