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
Temple Of Solomon
James Wasserman
2011
Witchcraft And Secret Societies Of Rural England
Nigel Pennick
2019
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The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947
Caroline Tully
2017
Secret Societies
Una Birch
2007
Curses, Keys, and Secret Societies
Breanne Randall
2026
A history of secret societies
Arkon Daraul
1961
The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan
2010
- Read free
In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom
Franz Hartmann
1890
- Read free
English Translation of Atalanta Fleeing
Michael Maier, Source Library, Google Gemini, Manual
2026
- Read free
Alchemy and the alchemists
R. Swinburne Clymer
1907
- Read free
An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians
Franz Hartmann
1887
- Read free
An encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, cabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy
Manly Manly Palmer Hall, J. Augustus Knapp
1928
- Read free
By-Laws of Ahaveth Sholem Lodge No. 160, I.O.B.B. and Constitution of the Order and of District Grand Lodge No. 3, I.O.B.B. Instituted May 30, 1871
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith
1873
- Read free
Egypt the cradle of ancient masonry
Norman Frederick De Clifford
1902
- Read free
Francis Bacon and his secret society
Henry Mrs Pott
1891
- Read free
On the origin of Free-masonry
Margaret Brazier de Bonneville, Thomas Paine
1810
- Read free
Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Territory of Washington
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Washington
1873
- Read free
Ritual of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel
Rudolph Grossman
1890
- Read free
Rituals of freemasonry
Daniel Sickels
1870
- Read free
Sun dials and roses of yesterday
Alice Morse Earle
1902
- Read free
The Free Mason examin'd; or, The world brought out of darkness into light ..
Alexander Slade
1758
- Read free
The Odd-fellows' text-book
Paschal Donaldson
1852
- Read free
The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception
Max Heindel
1909
- Read free
The Text Book Of Cryptic Masonry
Jackson H. Chase
1870