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
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Declaratio de Nomine Iesu Secundum Kabbalam
Author: Johann Kemper Translator: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
1704
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Albert Pike Letter To Mazzini
Albert Pike
1871
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Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa
1876
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Lettre pastorale des pères du septième concile de Québec [microforme]
Église catholique. Province de Québec. Concile provincial
1886French
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Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Solius Verae Theologiae
Michael Maier
1617
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Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, A.L. 5861
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of North Carolina, Alexander M. Gorman
1862
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Collection of extracts related to the fraternity of the RC
Charles Rainsford
1750
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Proceedings of the annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Alabama
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Alabama
1862
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An Impartial statement of the facts in the case of Rev. George Witherell, Pastor of the Baptist Church, in the town of Hartford, Washington County, New York
Office of the Boston Press
1831
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The Odd Fellows' Offering, For 1850
Edward Walker
1849
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[Lettre] [microforme]
Eglise catholique. Congregatio de Propaganda Fide
1870Latin
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Einfältige vnd kurtze Antwort vber die aussgegangene Fame vnd Confession der Christlichen hocherleuchteten Brüderschafft des löblichen Ordens vom Rosen Creutz
1615German
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Proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star for the state of Indiana held in
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of Indiana
1875
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The Freemason's manual, or, Illustrations of Masonry
Jeremiah How
1881
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Circulaire [microforme]
Charles Félix Cazeau, E.-Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Administrateur
1870French
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Circulaire [microforme]
E.-Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Administrateur
1870French
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Alabama
Wimbish & Co. Barrett, Freemasons. Alabama. Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter
1861
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The Menace of Romanism
W. J. H Traynor
1895
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Vorläufige Darstellung des heutigen Jesuitismus, der Rosenkreuzerey, Proselytenmacherey und Religionsvereinigung
1786German
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Mandement de Monseigneur E.-A. Taschereau, archevêque de Québec sur les sociétés secrètes, 1 juin 1883 [microforme]
E.-Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque
1867French
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[Lettre] [microforme]
E.-Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
1886French
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Circulaire au clergé [microforme]
C. É. Legaré, Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Vicaire-général
1884French
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Due papi in Roma nel 1895, in «La Civiltà Cattolica» anno 46 (1895), serie 16, volume 3, pp. 400-418
La Civiltà Cattolica
1895Italian
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Sexual Crimes Among The Southern Negroes
M D Hunter Mcguire
1893