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
Self-initiation into the Golden Dawn tradition
Chic Cicero, Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1995
Sent from the second order
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, W. Wynn Westcott, Darcy Kuntz
2005
Sizzle and Burn
Jayne Ann Krentz
2008
So Mote It Be!
Christian Bernard
1995
Soloman Organization
Andrew Neiderman
1993
Solomon's builders
Christopher Hodapp
2006
Spellfire
Ed Greenwood
1988
Sundials and Roses of Yesterday
Alice Morse Earle
2010
Sword of wisdom
Ithell Colquhoun
1975
Tarot Talismans
Sandra Tabatha Cicero
2006
Tarot and the Magus
Paul Hughes-Barlow
2004
The Bands of Mourning
Brandon Sanderson
2016
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
2014
The Celtic Golden Dawn
John Michael Greer
2013
The Chemical wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
Christian Rosencreutz
1991
The Complete Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscript
Darcy Kuntz
1996
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry
S. Brent Morris
2006
The Crooked Staircase
Dean Koontz
2018
The Equinox & Solstice Ceremonies of the Golden Dawn
Pat Zalewski
1992
The Golden Dawn
R.A Gilbert
1983
The Golden Dawn Audio CDs: Volume 2
Israel Regardie
2001
The Golden Dawn scrapbook
R. A. Gilbert
1997
The Hiram key
Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas
1996
The Innocent Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker)
Karen Miller, Cédric Perdereau, Jean-Claude Mallé
2005