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
- 1,433
- Earliest
- 1500
- to 2026
- Read free
- 43%
- 622 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,329
- Metadata match47
- Query match57
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
- Secret societies231
- Freemasonry160
- History146
- Sociétés secrètes105
- Rosicrucians102
- Geheimbund94
- Freemasons77
- Fiction75
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn70
- Occultism60
- Social Sciences47
- Histoire46
- Rituals40
- Text40
- Magic37
- Non-fiction literature36
- Sociedades secretas35
- Philosophy30
- tajné společnosti30
- 秘密結社29
- Arts and Humanities26
- Society of Rosicrucians26
- China24
- Freimaurerei23
Top languages
- English522 · 36%
- German434 · 30%
- NOT90 · 6%
- French86 · 6%
- Japanese44 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Max Heindel12 in this tradition14 books
- John Michael Greer11 in this tradition21 books
- Joseph Gabriel Findel11 books
- Israel Regardie9 in this tradition18 books
- Theodor Ackermann8 in this tradition10 books
- Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero8 books
- H. Spencer Lewis8 books
- Chic Cicero7 in this tradition8 books
- David Icke7 in this tradition8 books
- Hermann Gruber7 books
- Michael Maier6 in this tradition28 books
- R. Swinburne Clymer6 in this tradition8 books
1,433 books
- Read free
Comte de Gabalis
Villars abbé de, Doyon René Louis, Marteau Paul
1671
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Envelope; L. Guggenheim; Virginia City, Nevada, United States; 1896 January 29
I.O.O.F Grand Lodge of Nevada, L. Guggenheim
1896
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Envelope; L. Guggenheim; Virginia City, Nevada, United States; 1897 November 5
I.O.O.F Grand Lodge of Nevada, L. Guggenheim
1897
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Letter; Bush, Isidor; Hamburger, S.; New York, New York, United States; St. Louis, Missouri, United States; 1880 December 8
Isidor Bush
1880
- Read free
Administrative record; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Rosenthal, Luis; Stockton, California, United States; 1859 February 16; 1859 February 23
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Luis Rosenthal
1859
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The builders
Joseph Fort Newton
1914
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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825
Sigismond Bacstrom, Jakob Böhme, Alessandro Cagliostro, Manly Manly Palmer Hall, Michael Maier, George Ripley
1600Multiple languages
- Read free
The Yellow Crayon
Edward Phillips Oppenheim
1903
- Read free
Zanoni
Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton
1842
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Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, circa 1500-1825
Sigismond Bacstrom, Böhme, Jakob, Alessandro Cagliostro, Manly Manly Palmer Hall, Michael Maier, George Ripley
1500Multiple languages
- Read free
Les quarante nouveaux statuts de la Maçonnerie qui fondent les pouvoirs des Chevaliers de l'Aigle ... [etc.]
1752French
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
2020
- Read free
Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1794
- Read free
Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life
H. Spencer Lewis
1929
Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic
Alison Butler
2011
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Luciferianism or Satanism in English freemasonry, an essay
L. Fouquet
1898
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A Dead Reckoning
Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Date unknown
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Fire-Tongue
Sax Rohmer
Date unknown
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Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason
George Thornburgh
Date unknown
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Mysteria
Otto Henne am Rhyn, Joseph Fitzgerald
Date unknown
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Mysticism and its results
John Delafield
Date unknown
- Read free
Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star
Order of the Eastern Star. General Grand Chapter
Date unknown
- Read free
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages
Thomas Keightley
Date unknown
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Secret Societies: A Discussion of Their Character and Claims
David Macdill, Edward Beecher, Jonathan Blanchard
Date unknown