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
Sociétés secrètes
René Jolivet
1940French
Ta Mystika tōn Adelphōn tēs Chrysēs Augēs
1989Greek
Taĭnite obshtestva na XX vek
Nikolaĭ Bogoli︠u︡bov, Николай Боголюбов
2002Bulgarian
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
アナタモ秘密結社
粟津, 潔
1982Japanese
アメリカの秘密結社
綾部, 恒雄
1970Japanese
海底
李, 子峯
1940Chinese
近代東アジア民衆運動における「連続」と「転換」-中国・朝鮮の比較研究
趙, 景達
1994
近代秘密社会史料
蕭, 一山
1935Chinese
Banken, Brot und Bomben
Stefan Erdmann
Date unknown
Bibliographie occultiste et maçonnique
Édouard Jouin, V. Descreux, A. Peeters Baertson
####XPO
Der Geisterseher. Aus den Papieren des Grafen von O +++
Friedrich Schiller
[ohne Jahresangabe]German
Jin dai mi mi she hui shi liao
Yishan Xiao, 一山 蕭
Date unknownChinese
Zhongguo de bang hui
Juxian Wei, 聚賢 衛
[s.d.]Chinese
Auktions-Katalog
1919German
Bibliotheca esoterica
1975French
Carta que un padre escribe a sus hijos sobre el permiso que le pidieron para entrar en la comuneria
1822Spanish