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
Phlensthiōre andaz, hoc est, Redintegratio an die Fraternitet vom Rosen Creutze
1619German
Primitieve geheime genootschappen als sociaal verschijnsel
Eduard Meerum Terwogt
1945Dutch
Prospectus: Geschiedenis der vrij-metselarij, en der vroegere en latere geheime genootschappen, door F.-T. B.- Clavel, opgehelderd door 25 fraaije staal-gravures
G.B. van Goor / Gouda
1843Dutch
Refutacion
1828Spanish
Resposta ao malicioso folheto intitulado: Refutação ás excommunhões de Clemente XII. e Benedicto XIV. sobre os pedreiros livres
José Agostinho de Macedo
1822Portuguese
Rites et symboles des sociétés secrètes
Jean-Louis Provost
1996French
Rituali Massonici del primo e del trentesimo grado detti di aprendista e di Cavaliere Kadosh
1874Italian
Sarsena oder der vollkommene Baumeister
1859German
Secret Political Societies in the North During the Civil War
Mayo Fesler
1918
Secret Societies and Political Action
Helen B. Shaffer
1961
Shi jie mi mi she hui ji hei she hui
Yun Guan, 關雲
1977Chinese
Sociétés secrètes
René Jolivet
1940French
Ta Mystika tōn Adelphōn tēs Chrysēs Augēs
1989Greek
Taĭnite obshtestva na XX vek
Nikolaĭ Bogoli︠u︡bov, Николай Боголюбов
2002Bulgarian
The Chinese Confessions of Charles Welsh Mason
Julian Croskey
1924
Themis avrea, hoc est, de legibvs Fraternitatis R[oseae] C[rucis] Tractatvs quo earvm cvm rei veritate convenientia, vtilitas publica et priuata, nec non causa necessaria, euoluuntur ac demonstrantur
Michael Maier
1618Latin
Tiandihui wen xian lu
Ergang Luo, 爾綱 羅
1942Chinese
Turris Babel sive judiciorum de Fraternitate Rosaceae Crucis chaos
Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1619Latin
Varia
Aleksander Kraushar
1910Polish
Verdediging en verantwoording der vrijmetselarij, of Wederlegging der beschuldigingen, op onderscheiden tijden en door bevooroordeelde schrijvers tegen dezelve ingebragt
Delalande
1814Dutch
Voldoet de vrijmetselarij, in Nederland, aan hare roeping en verpligtingen?
Edmond Willem van Dam van Isselt
1846Dutch
Wenken; of, iets over de dusgenoemde vrijmetselarij. hare nadeelige strekking; haren aart en verpestende gevolgen
een Catholisch Doctor
1843Dutch
Zhongguo mi mi she hui shi
Shū Hirayama, 周 平山
1923Chinese
[Franc-maçonnerie]
1800French