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
Master of Temptation
Nicole Jordan
2004
Passage to Dawn
R. A. Salvatore
1996
Essential Golden Dawn
Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
2003
Zastrozzi
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1810
Golden Dawn Enochian Skry
Sandra Tabatha Cicero
2004
Tarot Decoded
Elizabeth Hazel
2004
The Meaning of Masonry
W. L. Wilmshurst
1980
Golden Dawn Mag Tarot
Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
2000
Inside a Magical Lodge
John Michael Greer
1998
The Widow's Son
Robert Anton Wilson
1985
The origins of Freemasonry
David Ph. D Stevenson, David Stevenson
1988
Crown of Fire
Ed Greenwood
1994
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
2019
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
2019
Finder's Bane
Kate Novak, Jeff Grubb
1997
Vår del av natten
Mariana Enríquez
2022Norwegian (Bokmål)
Freemasonry
Jack Harris
1986
True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order
Paul Foster Case
1985
Ravalette
Paschal Beverly Randolph
1939
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
2009
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides
2021
Turning the Hiram Key
Robert Lomas
2005
Ancient aliens & secret societies
Mike Bara
2015
Esoteric Secrets Of Surrealism
Patrick Lepetit
2014