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
Socialitas, urbanitas, humanitas
Maximilian Görmar
2025German
Sociedades secretas
A. Tenório d' Albuquerque
1957Portuguese
Società segrete, potere occulti e complotti
Roberto Paura
2022Italian
Societăţi secrete şi discrete
Emilian M. Dobrescu
2001Romanian
Sociétés secrètes
Dominique Labarrière
2017French
Sociétés secrètes et organisations mystérieuses
Daniel Hourès
2007French
Sozietäten, Netzwerke, Kommunikation
Holger Zaunstöck, Markus Meumann
2003German
Sozietätslandschaft und Mitgliederstrukturen
Holger Zaunstöck
1999German
Speck auff der Fall, das ist, List und Betruch der newentstandnen Bruderschafft, oder, Fraternitet dern vom Rosencreutz
Mundus Christophori Filius
1618German
Speck auff der Fall, das ist, List und Betruch der newentstandnen Brüderschafft, oder, Fraternitet dern. vom Rosencreutz
S. Mundus
1618German
Speck auff der fall, das ist
Mundus Christophori Filius
1618German
Statuti generali ed altri documenti dei framassoni
Scottish Rite. Italy
1874Italian
Symbolik der Mysterienbünde
August Horneffer
2026German
Száz év előtti kulturharc a jelenkor tükre
Karl Huszar-Puffy
1898Hungarian
Tableau des ff. composant la T.R. Loge Française l'Amenité, No. 73
Pa. Freemasons. Loge Française l'AmenitPhiladelphia
1802French
Templer und Freimaurer – Die verborgene Bruderschaft
Scott McCallum
2025German
Terceira carta ao muito reverendo padre José Agostinho de Macedo sobre os constitucionaes e liberaes, e alguma cousa sobre os pedreiros-livres
Liberal e constitucional
1822Portuguese
The Tessera of Antilia
Donald R. Dickson
1998
Theo-philosophia theoretico-practica, oder, Der wahre Grund göttlicher und natürlicher Erkänntniss
Samuel Richter
1714German
Thesaurus fidei
Friedrich Grick
1619German
Tierische Archetypen im Schatten freimaurerischer Logen
Paolo Orlando
2025German
Traité sur l'initiation et les grades de l'ordre des sept sages, (S.W.M.)
or Seven Wise Men Order of the Heptasophs
1861French
Ueber Jesuiten, Freymaurer und deutsche Rosencreutzer
Adolf Freiherr von Knigge, Freemasons. Loge Archimedes zu der Drei Reissbretern
1781German
Ueber den Zweck des Freymaurerordens
Johann August Starck
1781German