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
- Read free
The Black Cross
Olive Olive Mary Briggs, Sigismond de Ivanowski
Date unknown
- Read free
The Double Four
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Date unknown
- Read free
The Early Introduction of Bogus Freemasonry in the United States of America and Texas Among Colored Masons
Charles L. Mitchell
Date unknown
- Read free
The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail
William Henry Frost, Sydney Richmond Burleigh
Date unknown
- Read free
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
Walter James Hoffman
Date unknown
- Read free
The Molly Maguires and the detectives
Allan Pinkerton
Date unknown
- Read free
The Mysteries of Free Masonry
William Morgan
Date unknown
- Read free
The Principles of Masonic Law
Albert Gallatin Mackey
Date unknown
- Read free
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Date unknown
- Read free
The unknown seven
Herman Landon
Date unknown
- Read free
The war of Antichrist with the Church and Christian civilization
George F Dillon
Date unknown
- Read free
Tom Clark and His Wife
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Date unknown
- Read free
Washington's Masonic Correspondence
George Washington, Julius Friedrich Sachse
Date unknown
- Read free
What is POSAT?
Phyllis Sterling Smith, Ed Emshwiller
Date unknown
- Read free
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Date unknown
- Read free
Delenda est Carthago!
Eduardo Eduardo Clemente Nunes Pereira
Date unknownPortuguese
- Read free
Kurzgefaßte Symbolik der Freimaurerei.
Otto Henne am Rhyn
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
La Franc-Maçonnerie en France
Georges Goyau
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
Étude sur la Franc-Maçonnerie
Félix Dupanloup
Date unknownFrench
Anderson's Constitutions of 1738
James Anderson
2003
- Read free
Envelope; McDuffie, C. D.; Silver City, Nevada, United States; undated
Date unknown
The signs and symbols of primordial man
Albert Churchward
1910
Masonic Initiation
W. L. Wilmshurst
1924
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The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
Arthur Edward Waite
1924