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
Médecine et sociétés secrètes au Cameroun
Nicolas Monteillet
2006French
Mémoire sur les sociétés secrètes protestantes dans les Pay-Bas
Johannes Wilhelmus Cramer
1852French
Mémoires d'une ex-palladiste, parfaite initiée, indépendante
Léo Taxil
1895French
Nachtrag über den angeblichen Krypto-Katholicismus
Johann August Starck
1788German
Ndjobi et attitude chrétienne
Joseph Baudois-Ngouona
2011French
Neuer-Himmel
Friedrich Ludwig Rosenstengl
1721German
Nos sociétés secrètes et associations
Marcel André
1986French
Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrétes
Villars abbé de
1684French
Novus tractatus chymicus, de vera materia, veroq
Michael Potier
1617Latin
O amigo dos portuguezes
Mattheus da Assumpção Brandão
1830Portuguese
O diabo descarado
Tambor da guarda
1823Portuguese
Objections aux sociétés secretes
Joseph Niklas Reichsgraf Windisch-Grätz
1789
Objections aux sociétés secrètes
Joseph Niklas Windisch-Graetz
1999French
Obshchestvennoe dvizhenīe v Rossīi pri Aleksandri︠e︡ I
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Pypin
1885Russian
Ode prononcée dans le sein de la R.L. l'Aménité, no. 73, or. de Philadelphie le jour de la Saint Jean-Evangeliste, 1810
Pa. Freemasons. Loge Française l'AmenitPhiladelphia
1811French
Origini e storia della Massoneria
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
2006Italian
Pantzerfeger
Ismaël Papiermüller
1617German
Pastoral del Ilmo. y Rvm. Sr. obispo del Paraguay, don Juan Sinforiano Bogarin sobre la francmasonería
Juan Sinforiano Bogarín, Catholic Church. Diocese of Paraguay. Bishop
1896Spanish
Pia & utilissima admonitio de Fratribus Rosae-Crucis
Henricus Neuhusius
1622Latin
Prodromus Fr. R.C
Friedrich Grick
1620German
Prodromus Fr. R.C., das ist, Ein Vorgeschmack und geyläuffige Anzeig der grossen auszführlichen Apologia ..
Friedrich Grick
1620German
Prodromus rhodo-stavroticus, parergi philosophici, das ist, Vortrab und Entdeckung derer hocherleuchten, gottseligen, und weitberühmten Brüderschafft vom Rosen Creutz, philosophischen Parergi sonsten Lapis philosophorum genandt
Daniel Mögling
1620German
Qing dai qian qi tian di hui shi liao ji cheng =
Baoqi Qin, 秦宝琦
2020Chinese
Qing qian qi Tian di hui yan jiu
Baoqi Qin, 宝琦 秦
1988Chinese