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
Histoire des sociétés secrètes politiques et religieuses
Pierre Zaccone
1995French
Hong men sou mi
Lie Fei, 烈 飛
1966Chinese
Hong men zhi
Lin Zhu, 琳 朱
1975Chinese
I Carbonari
Ettore Fabietti
1942Italian
Il Maestro libero muratore
Luigi Troisi
2007Italian
Instructions des H..G.., tels qu'ils se confèrent dans les chapitres de la correspondance du G..O.. de France, au rit moderne, avec les discours analogues aux réceptions
1807French
Jubelkrans bij de vijf en twintigste verjaring des grootmeesterschaps van den H. E. Gr. Mr. Nat. der Vrijmetselarij in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden
Charles Auguste Vervier
1841Dutch
K istorii tajnyh obŝestv i kružkov sredi litovsko-pol'skij molodeži v 1819-1823 gg
Teodor Wierzbowski
1898Russian
Kadosch
Supremo consiglio dei trentatre
1923Italian
La dictature des puissances occultes
Leon de Poncins
1941French
La grande Duperie du siècle
William Vogt
1904French
La massoneria nel mondo dalle origini a oggi
Paul Naudon
1983Italian
La massoneria tradizionale nel nostro tempo
Jean Baylot
1973Italian
Latomia in Nucleo, ou, la quintessence de la Franc-Maçonnerie
1874French
Launhelgar og lokuð félög
Efraim Briem, Björn Magnússon
1975Icelandic
Le Gouvernement invisible
Jacques Bordiot
1983French
Le associazioni segrete
Lelio Barbiera, Gaetano Contento, Paolo Giocoli Nacci
1984
Le parole sacre e di passo dei primi tre gradi e il massimo mistero massonico
Arturo Reghini
1922Italian
Le sette reazionarie nello stato pontificio della Restaurazione
Fabrizio Marinelli
1978Italian
Le societa segrete
Pier Carpi
1968Italian
Le societa segrete che dominano il mondo
Pierre Mariel
1976Italian
Les "Assemblées" secrètes des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles en relation avec l'Aa de Lyon
Yves Poutet, Jacqueline Roubert
1968French
Les Meurtres de l'occulte
Roger Facon, Jean-Marie Parent
1981French
Les Sociétés Secrétes
1874French