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
- 1,433
- Earliest
- 1500
- to 2026
- Read free
- 43%
- 622 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,329
- Metadata match47
- Query match57
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
- Secret societies231
- Freemasonry160
- History146
- Sociétés secrètes105
- Rosicrucians102
- Geheimbund94
- Freemasons77
- Fiction75
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn70
- Occultism60
- Social Sciences47
- Histoire46
- Rituals40
- Text40
- Magic37
- Non-fiction literature36
- Sociedades secretas35
- Philosophy30
- tajné společnosti30
- 秘密結社29
- Arts and Humanities26
- Society of Rosicrucians26
- China24
- Freimaurerei23
Top languages
- English522 · 36%
- German434 · 30%
- NOT90 · 6%
- French86 · 6%
- Japanese44 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Max Heindel12 in this tradition14 books
- John Michael Greer11 in this tradition21 books
- Joseph Gabriel Findel11 books
- Israel Regardie9 in this tradition18 books
- Theodor Ackermann8 in this tradition10 books
- Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero8 books
- H. Spencer Lewis8 books
- Chic Cicero7 in this tradition8 books
- David Icke7 in this tradition8 books
- Hermann Gruber7 books
- Michael Maier6 in this tradition28 books
- R. Swinburne Clymer6 in this tradition8 books
1,433 books
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Glenn Alexander Magee, Charles W. Stein, Joscelyn Godwin, Jessica Elbert Decker, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Roelof van den Broek, Daphna Arbel, April D. DeConick, William C. Chittick, Brian Ogren, Bruce Milem, Anne L. Clark, Antoine Faivre, Peter J. Forshaw, Bruce T. Moran, Hereward Tilton, Jan A.M. Snoek, Jane Williams‐Hogan, Adam Crabtree, Cathy Gutierrez
2016
The Craft and Its Symbols
Allen E. Roberts
1975
The Doctrine Of Delineation In A Nutshell
Max Heindel, Augusta Foss Heindel
2005
The Interspace, Book 1 — The Breach
Chris Tsirkas, Florencia Casablanca
2026
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
Jim Marrs
2008
The Rosicrucian ephemerides
1983
The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods & Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century
Donald R. Dickson
1998
The book of Rosicruciae
R. Swinburne Clymer
1946
The conscious interlude
Ralph Maxwell Lewis
1957
The illuminati
Robert Howells
2016
The picatrix : the goal of the wise (in sorcery)
Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī, H. Ritter, Steven Ashe
2007
The rites of modern occult magic
Francis X. King
1971
Under the eye of power
Colin Dickey
2023
Utajená magie
Ruth Clydesdale
2011Czech
Zakázané kapitoly z historie
J. Douglas Kenyon
2010Czech
La face cachée de Harvard
Stéphanie Grousset-Charrière
2012French
Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas
Randolph W Farmer
2021
The hidden river
Diego Arandojo
2023
Men in groups
Lionel Tiger
1969
Le livre des sociétés secrètes
John Michael Greer
2020French
The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic
Israel Regardie, Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1969
Le petit livre des sociétés secrètes
Joel Levy
2025French
Political Violence in Egypt 1910-1925: Secret Societies, Plots and Assassinations
Malak Badrawi
2000
The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart
2008