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
Conspiracy and Romance
Robert S. Levine
1989
Founding fathers, secret societies - freemasons illuminati rosicrucians and
Robert Hieronimus
2006
Fraternitas saturni
Stephen E Flowers
2012Czech
Frimureri
W. Kirk MacNulty
2006
Hellig blod, hellig gral
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
2004
Hemmelige selskap
Inger Marit Hansen
2019
Historie tajných spolků, organizací a sekt
John Lawrence Reynolds
2008Czech
Inside Secret Societies
Neil Turitz
2021
Light over Tibet
J. van Rijckenborgh
1956
Master monograph
Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
1993
Mental alchemy
Ralph Maxwell Lewis
1978
Morning Of The Magicians
Pauwels Louis & Bergier Jacques
2008
Na stopě Šalomounovu klíči Dana Browna
Greg Taylor
2006Czech
Nejkrutější tajné společnosti v dějinách
Shelley Klein
2006Czech
Neptune The Planet Of Divinity
Max Heindel, Augusta Foss Heindel
2005
Of Gods and miracles
Ulrich Steindorff
1954
Rozluštění Ztraceného symbolu
Simon Cox
2010Czech
Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism
Michael E. Stone
2017
Secret societies - their influence and power from antiquity to the present
Michael Howard
2007
Svatá krev a svatý grál
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
2003Czech
Svatý grál
Sangeet Duchane
2007Czech
Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses
Kristin Boudreau
2002
Tajemství templářů
Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince
2006Czech
Tajemství ztraceného symbolu
John Michael Greer
2010Czech