THIRD INTERNATIONAL
The last of the three revolutionary Internationals, the Third International or Comintern was founded at Moscow in 1919, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik seizure…
Month: December 2022
TEMPLE OV PSYCHICK YOUTH, THEE [TOPY]
Among the most colourful occult secret societies in the modern magical scene, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) was founded in London in 1981 by…
TEMPLE OF SOLOMON
According to Jewish legends recorded in several books of the Old Testament, a temple to the Jewish god constructed in Jerusalem in c.975 BCE by…
SYNARCHY
One of many political movements with secret society roots, synarchy was the creation of French occult philosopher Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842–1909), perhaps the most…
SUBLIME PERFECT MASTERS
One of the principal secret societies founded by Filippo Buonarroti, the doyen of political subversion in early nineteenth-century Europe, the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits or Sublime…
SS [SCHUTZSTAFFEL]
Originally a volunteer bodyguard of Nazi thugs organized in 1925 to protect party leader Adolf Hitler on his travels around Germany, the Schutzstaffel (“Protection Force”)…
SPEAR OF LONGINUS
The Legend of the Spear of Longinus: From Medieval Relic to Modern Myth According to a widely circulated medieval legend, the spear that pierced the…
SONS OF LIBERTY
One of two secret societies involved in the early stages of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty were founded in Boston and New York…
SOLAR TEMPLE
The self-immolation of the Solar Temple (Temple Solaire), a French occult secret society of the late 1980s and early 1990s, presents one of the most…
SOCIETY OF UNIVERSAL HARMONY
One of many esoteric secret societies in pre-Revolutionary France, the Society of Universal Harmony (Société de l’Harmonie Universelle) was founded in 1782 by Nicolas Bergasse…