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
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 Secrètes Catholiques du XVIIe Siècle et H.-M. Boudon, Grand Archidiacre d'Évreux
Alphonse Auguste
1913French
Les Sociétés Secrétes
1874French
Les societes secretes
René Alleau
1963French
Les sociétés secrètes
Philippe Ilial
2014French
Les sociétés secrètes dans le bassin du Pacifique
Raymond Lenoir
1925French
Liberta e in alto
Massoneria
1958Italian
Lionello
Antonio Bresciani
1860Dutch
Livre jaune n° 5
1997French
Mac-Benac, of Het stellige der vrijmetselarij
Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner
1820Dutch
Manifeste des sociétés secrètes
1849French
Maçonismo desmascarado, ou, Manifesto contra os pedreiros livres
1822Portuguese
Maçonnerie pratique
1885French
Memorie Sulle Società Segrete dell'Italia Meridionale e Specialmente sui Carbonari
Giuseppe Bertoldi
1904
O farol realista sobre as cavernas maçonicas
1830Portuguese
Orden del día
1878Spanish