Tradition 10 of 35
Initiatory orders and secret societies
Rosicrucian, Masonic, Golden Dawn, and other initiatory, fraternal, or secret organizations.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 3,263
- Earliest
- 1396
- to 2026
- Read free
- 50%
- 1,643 with public full text
- With covers
- 55%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,142
- Metadata match63
- 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
- Freemasonry1.3K
- Secret societies637
- Freemasons463
- History361
- Rosicrucians281
- Sociétés secrètes186
- Rituals183
- Religious aspects131
- Catholic Church107
- Early works to 1800100
- Fiction95
- Geheimbund94
- occultism89
- Franc-maçonnerie78
- Freimaurerei78
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn70
- Lodges69
- Symbolism67
- France59
- Histoire58
- United States58
- Controversial literature57
- Christianity51
- Social Sciences48
Top languages
- English1,616 · 50%
- German615 · 19%
- French332 · 10%
- NOT92 · 3%
- Spanish91 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Supreme Council of Canada26 books
- Max Heindel24 in this tradition30 books
- Johann Valentin Andreä18 in this tradition23 books
- George Oliver16 in this tradition18 books
- Joséphin Péladan16 in this tradition17 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
- Friedrich Grick12 in this tradition17 books
- Pope Leo XIII12 in this tradition14 books
3,263 books
Geheime Gesellschaften
1979German
Geheime genootschappen en orden
H.L. van Derk
1925Dutch
Geschiedenis der vrijmetselarij en der geheime genootschappen van vroegeren en lateren tijd
Clavel, François-Timoléon Bègue
1843Dutch
Gli emblemi araldici della libera muratoria
Salvatore Farina
1955Italian
Governi occulti e società segrete
Serge Hutin
1973Italian
Guide pour les travaux maçonniques, dans les trois premiers degrés
1865French
Het geheim der vrijmetselarij opengelegd
Pieter Gerardus Witsen Geysbeek
1831Dutch
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
J.-A. Starck et la Querelle du Crypto-Catholicisme en Allemagne, 1785-1789
Jean Blum
1912French
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
L'AA de Toulouse aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles, d'Après des Documents Inédits
Henri Begouen
1913French
La Jeunesse de Charles Nodier; Les Philadelphes
Léonce Pingaud
1914French
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