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
Secret societies
2016
The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands
2015
The gilded wolves
Roshani Chokshi
2018
Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge
Kocku von Stuckrad
2005
Epilogue: Long Shadows
Mark A. Lause
2017
Yeats considered as the Archetypal Fool
Margot Wilson
2017
Triad and Tabut : a survey of the origin and diffusion of Chinese and Mohamedan secret societies in the Malay Peninsula, AD 1800-1935
Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne
2000
Opium and Empire
Carl A. Trocki
2019
"Geheimbund"?: Yi He Ch'üan
Kurt Knackstedt
2002
Mi mi she hui de mi mi
Xi He, 贺喜, David Faure
2022Chinese
Geheimbünde von Frauen
Helmut Werner
2025German
Hemmelige Foreninger
Ole Larsen Kirkeberg
1910Norwegian (Bokmål)
Masones y cristeros en Jalisco
Moisés González Navarro
2000Spanish
Předpovědi budoucnosti a pravda o minulosti a současnosti
2011Czech
- Read free
The Principles of Masonic Law
Date unknown
美式书秘密社团:对其性质和主(Secret Societies A Discussion of Their ).pdf
叶兴阳
2026
英式书秘密社团:对其性质和主(Secret Societies A Discussion of Their ).pdf
叶兴阳
2026
- Read free
La franc-maçonnerie et la révolution française
Date unknownFrench
Akademie Pessoa
Errico Buonanno, Julika Brandestini
2008German
Al Quaida und andere geheime Gesellschaften
Walter-Jörg Langbein
2004German
Die Aufklärung und ihr Gegenteil
Michael W. Fischer, Michael Fischer
1982German
Les sociétés secrètes
Serge Hutin
1954French
"Secret societies" reconsidered
David Ownby, Mary F. Somers Heidhues, Robert J. Antony
1993
Das anglo-amerikanische Establishment
Carroll Quigley
2016