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
Narratives of Obeah in West Indian literature
Janelle Rodriques
2019
New World Order
A. Ralph Epperson
1990
New world order
William T. Still
1990
Orders of the Universal Reformation, Utopias
Manly Palmer Hall
1996
Paths of wisdom
John Michael Greer
1996
Qabalah Bk. II
Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1994
Qabalah of 50 Gates
Steven Ashe
2007
Revelations of the Golden Dawn
R. A. Gilbert
1997
Ritual magic in England: 1887 to the present day
Francis X. King
1970
Ritual use of magical tools
Chic Cicero
2000
Ronayne's Handbook of Freemasonry
Edmond Ronayne
1917
Rosicrucian Principles for Home and Business
H. Spencer Lewis
2007
Rosicrucian questions and answers
H. Spencer Lewis
1929
Rosicrucianism in America
J. Gordon Melton
2019
Ròs fiadhaich
Nicola R White
2021
Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
William Walker Atkinson, Clint Marsh
2011
Secret History of the World
Jonathan Black
2007
Secret Societies
John Lawrence Reynolds
2006
Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge
Philip Gardiner
2007
Secret societies
David Southwell, Sean Twist
2007
Secret societies
Arkon Daraul
1999
Secret societies-- and how they affect our lives today
Sylvia Browne
2007
Secrets of a Golden Dawn temple
Chic Cicero
1992
Secrets of the Golden dawn cypher manuscript
Carroll Runyon
1997