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
- Read free
Latomia 27 (1869)
Theodor Merzdorf Hermann Theodor Schletter
1869German
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Latomia 28 (1871)
Theodor Merzdorf Hermann Theodor Schletter
1871German
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Der Heilige Stuhl und die Freimaurer
Clemens Schrader
1866German
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Der Zirkel 3 (1873)
Julius Bründl
1873German
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Der Zirkel 4 (1874)
Julius Bründl
1874German
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Latomia (NF) 3 (1880)
Benvenuto Cramer
1880German
- Read free
Vollständiges Gesangbuch für Freimaurer :
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection
1804German
- Read free
La gran traición
Mauricio
1899Spanish
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Das buch der mysterien. Leben und treiben der geheimen gesellschaften aller zeiten und völker
Otto Henne am Rhyn
1869German
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Der Zirkel 10 (1880)
Moritz Amster
1880German
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Der Zirkel 11 (1881)
Moritz Amster
1881German
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Der Zirkel 12 (1882)
Moritz Amster
1882German
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Der Zirkel 13 (1883)
Moritz Amster
1883German
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Der Zirkel 14 (1884)
Moritz Amster
1884German
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Der Zirkel 15 (1885)
Moritz Amster
1885German
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Der Zirkel 16 (1886)
Moritz Amster
1886German
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Der Zirkel 17 (1887)
Moritz Amster
1887German
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Der Zirkel 18 (1888)
Moritz Amster
1888German
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Der Zirkel 19 (1889)
Moritz Amster
1889German
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Der Zirkel 20 (1890)
Moritz Amster
1890German
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Der Zirkel 22 (1892)
Moritz Amster
1892German
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Die katholische Geistlilchkeit und die Freimaurerei. Ein kulturgeschichtlicher Rückblick
Reinhold Taute
1895German
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Teorica della morale massonica, in «La Civiltà Cattolica», anno 46, serie 16, vol. 4, quad. 1090, pp. 394-411
La Civiltà Cattolica
1895Italian
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Der Zirkel 1 (1871)
Julius Bründl Josef Paul von Király
1871German