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
Le petit livre des sociétés secrètes
Joel Levy
2025French
Political Violence in Egypt 1910-1925: Secret Societies, Plots and Assassinations
Malak Badrawi
2000
The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart
2008
A Bucha a Maçonaria e o espírito liberal
Pedro Brasil Bandecchi
1978Portuguese
- Read free
American Indian Freemasonry
Arthur Caswell Parker
1919
Hitler a tajné společnosti
Philippe Valode
2010Czech
Klub Rahasia di London
Amelia Febriany
2026Indonesian
La Rose-Croix et ses rapports avec la franc-maçonnerie
Paul Arnold
1970French
Le livre de la̓pprenti
Oswald Wirth
1931French
Neviditelná moc tajných společenství
Andreas von Rétyi
2007Czech
Novum lumem chymicum - alchymie, magie a tajné společnosti na severní Moravě a ve Slezsku
Luboš Antonín, Petr Mašek
1998Czech
Okultní hnutí v 19. století a jeho vztah ke světové kultuře
Rudolf Steiner
2016Czech
Spiknutí mocných
Jitka Lenková
2008Czech
Spiknutí mocných s.r.o
Jitka Lenková
2000Czech
Tajné dějiny Evropy
Bohumil Vurm
1997Czech
Tajné dějiny světa
Jonathan Black
2009Czech
Tajné politické společnosti
Eugen Lennhoff
1997Czech
Tajné společnosti
Serge Hutin
1995Czech
Tajné společnosti
Jean-François Signier
2007Czech
Akata Warrior
Nnedi Okorafor, Yetide Badaki, Carla Bataller Estruch
2017
I am the mission
Allen Zadoff
2014
Night School
C. J. Daugherty
2012
Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Christopher Partridge
2018
Secret Societies (Fact or Fiction)
Stewart Ross
1996