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
Brujos hablan
John Baines
1980
Child of Fire
Harry Connolly
2009
Christian by degrees
Walton Hannah
1954
Circles of Power
John Michael Greer
1997
Codex Magica
Texe Marrs
2005
Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic
Israel Regardie
1984
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume III
Leo Lyon Zagami
2017
Conspiracies and Secret Societies
Brad Steiger
2006
Conspirators' hierarchy
John Coleman
1992
Cosmology
Franz Hartmann
1888
Creating Magical Tools
Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1999
Cults, conspiracies, and secret societies
Arthur Goldwag
2009
Darkness visible
Walton Hannah
1952
Enochian chess of the Golden Dawn
Chris Zalewski
1994
European travel for the monstrous gentlewoman
Theodora Goss
2018
Flesh and Spirit
Carol Berg
2007
Freemasonry
W. Kirk MacNulty
1991
Freemasonry
Angel Millar
2004
Freemasonry
Mark E. Koltko-Rivera
2011
Freemasonry
Giles Morgan
2007
Freemasonry and its ancient mystic rites
Charles Webster Leadbeater
1998
Freemasonry and its image of man
Giuliano Di Bernardo
1989
Freemasonry, Ancient Egypt, and the Islamic destiny
Mustafa El-Amin
1988
Freemasons
Bob Bailey Mucker
2013