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
An address delivered at Charlotte, N.C. on the 27th December, A.D. 1845
John H Wheeler
1846
An address delivered at Dover, N.H., on the 23d October, A.L. 5817, at the installation of Strafford Lodge
John Holmes
1817
An address delivered at Leicester, Mass., before King Solomon's R.A. Chapter
Ezekiel L. Bascom, Royal Arch Masons. King Solomon's Chapter
1817
An address delivered at Lynn
Caleb Cushing
1826
An address delivered at Manchester in the presence of the officers and brethren of the North Star Lodge
One of the brethren
1786
An address delivered at Saco, on the 24th of June, A.L. 5818
John Holmes, Me.) Freemasons. Saco Lodge (Saco
1818
An address delivered at St. Catharines, before the R.W. Br. Sir A.N. MacNab, P.G.M., and the officers and members of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Canada West, on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the Town Hall, on Monday, 30th October, 5848
William M. Wilson
1848
An address delivered at St. James' Church, New-London, on the 24th of June, 1819, to the members of Union Lodge
Bethel Judd
1819
An address delivered at the installation of officers in Washington Lodge, Roxbury, December 6th, A.L. 5819
John Howe, Freemasons. Washington Lodge
1819
An address delivered at the installation of the officers of Mount Zion Royal Arch Chapter, Stoughton, December 15th, A.L. 5828
Benjamin Huntoon
1829
An address delivered before Amicable Lodge, October 18, 1855
Lucius R. Paige, Freemasons. Amicable Lodge
1856
An address delivered before King Solomon's Lodge, Charlestown, on the anniversary of St. John the Baptist
John Lathrop
1811
An address delivered before Mount-Vernon Lodge, on their anniversary election of officers, February 22, 5800
Amos Maine Atwell
1800
An address delivered before Richmond Encampment of Knight Templars, No. 2
Benjamin B. French, Second Baptist Church, No. 2 Knights Templar. Richmond Encampment
1853
An address delivered before St. Paul's Lodge, Groton, Mass., at its fifty-fifth annual communication, October 25, A.L. 5852
L. Smith, Freemasons. St. Paul's Lodge
1853
An address delivered before the De Molay and Virginia encampments in the Music Hall, Boston, June 24, A.D. 1858
George M. Randall
1859
An address delivered before the Grand Lodge of Rhode-Island
Jacob Frieze
1831
An address delivered before the W. M. and brethren of Fortitude Lodge, No. 84, Brooklyn
John Harmer, no. 84 Freemasons. Fortitude Lodge
1811
An address delivered by His Excellency Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel Decius Tompkins
1820
An address delivered by the Most Worshipful the Hon. DeWitt Clinton, Esq. to the Grand Lodge of the state of New-York at his installation into the office of grand master on the 19th of June, 1806
DeWitt Clinton
1806
An address delivered in Hallowell, at the festival of St. John the Baptist before Kennebeck Lodge, June 24, A.L. 5815
Nathan Weston
1815
An address in celebration of the nativity of St. John the Baptist
Joseph Richardson
1817
An address on the masonic character and standing of Washington
Benjamin B. French
1851
An address on the moral and religious tendencies of freemasonry
Erastus Burr
1846