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
Tajné a přísně tajné
Michael Streeter
2010Czech
Tajné spolky
David V Barrett
2010Czech
Tajuplné město
Patrice Chaplin
2008Czech
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Glenn Alexander Magee, Charles W. Stein, Joscelyn Godwin, Jessica Elbert Decker, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Roelof van den Broek, Daphna Arbel, April D. DeConick, William C. Chittick, Brian Ogren, Bruce Milem, Anne L. Clark, Antoine Faivre, Peter J. Forshaw, Bruce T. Moran, Hereward Tilton, Jan A.M. Snoek, Jane Williams‐Hogan, Adam Crabtree, Cathy Gutierrez
2016
The Craft and Its Symbols
Allen E. Roberts
1975
The Doctrine Of Delineation In A Nutshell
Max Heindel, Augusta Foss Heindel
2005
The Interspace, Book 1 — The Breach
Chris Tsirkas, Florencia Casablanca
2026
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
Jim Marrs
2008
The Rosicrucian ephemerides
1983
The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods & Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century
Donald R. Dickson
1998
The book of Rosicruciae
R. Swinburne Clymer
1946
The conscious interlude
Ralph Maxwell Lewis
1957
The illuminati
Robert Howells
2016
The picatrix : the goal of the wise (in sorcery)
Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī, H. Ritter, Steven Ashe
2007
The rites of modern occult magic
Francis X. King
1971
Under the eye of power
Colin Dickey
2023
Utajená magie
Ruth Clydesdale
2011Czech
Zakázané kapitoly z historie
J. Douglas Kenyon
2010Czech
La face cachée de Harvard
Stéphanie Grousset-Charrière
2012French
Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas
Randolph W Farmer
2021
The hidden river
Diego Arandojo
2023
Men in groups
Lionel Tiger
1969
Le livre des sociétés secrètes
John Michael Greer
2020French
The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic
Israel Regardie, Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero
1969