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
Modern Ireland
George Sigerson
1868
Moral duty and improvement
Mighill Blood
1818
More light on masonry, or, Morgan revived
William Morgan
1827
New lights on Jacobinism
Anti-Jacobin
1798
Notes on the scientific and religious mysteries of antiquity
John Yarker
1872
Official program and souvenir, Dedication of the Masonic Temple, Detroit
A. G. Pitts
1897
On the necessity and influence of a good example
Oliver M. Spencer
1814
On the relationship between [sic] Masonry & Christianity
Ferdinand C. Ewer
1862
On the sect of the freemasons
Pope Leo XIII
1884
Oraison funèbre, du frère George Washington, prononcée le premier janvier, 1800, dans la Loge française, l'Aménité
Jean Simon Chaudron
1801
Oration [pronounced] at West-Springfield, Mass., Dec. 27, A.L. 5809, to the brethren of Sylvan Lodge
Charles Reynolds
1810
Oration [pronounced] at West-Springfield, Mass., Dec. 27, A.L. 5809, to the brethren of Sylvan Lodge
J. Franklin Jameson
1810
Oration delivered at New-Castle, Del. on the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist
William Thompson Read
1817
Oration delivered at Newburgh, N.Y
Wheeler Case
1812
Oration pronounced in the Second Baptist Church at Beaufort, South-Carolina, on the 27th of February 1813 being St. John's Day
Henry Tudor Farmer
1813
Oration, delivered at New-Castle, Del
Kensey J Vandyke
1828
Oration, delivered before the officers and members of Merrimack Lodge, Haverhill
Samuel McGregore Burnside, Freemasons. Merrimack Lodge
1807
Oration, sermon, &c. delivered at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Masonic Hall in Hagers-Town June 24th A.D. 1822, A.L. 5822
Otho H. Williams
1822
Organization of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia and extracts from its proceedings from eleventh December A.L. 5810 to January A.L. 5813
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia
1813
Pastoral letter published at the Fourth Provincial Council of Cincinnati, March 19th, 1882
Catholic Church. Province of Cincinnati. Provincial Council
1882
Plain truth
John G. Stearns
1828
Plan of a loan of forty thousand dollars, proposed to be received by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
1809
Poems
St. John Honeywood
1801
Political violence in Egypt 1910-1925
Malak Badrawi
2000