RITE OF STRICT OBSERVANCE
One of the most important secret societies in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Rite of Strict Observance had its roots…
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RITE OF PERFECTION
The first known Masonic body to work the degrees that later belonged to the Scottish Rite, the Rite of Perfection was organized in Paris in…
RITE OF MISRAIM
Yet another of the complex systems of higher degrees born on the fringes of Freemasonry in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Misraim (also spelled…
RITE OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM
The most extensive system of Masonic degrees ever worked, the Rite of Memphis and Misraim was the creation of John Yarker, the great promoter of…
RITE OF MEMPHIS
One of the many systems on the fringes of regular Masonry that emerged in the nineteenth century, the Rite of Memphis was one of the…
RIGHT-HAND PATH
A term borrowed into western occult jargon from Indian Tantrism, this phrase originally referred to those Tantric systems that maintain the rules of behavior standard…
RIDING THE GOAT
For close to two centuries, if not longer, initiation into fraternal secret societies has been described throughout the English-speaking world as “riding the goat.” The…
RIBBONMEN
The rise of the Whiteboys movement in southern Ireland in the late eighteenth century inspired Irish farmers and labourers throughout the island to consider secret…
REX DEUS
(Latin, “King God.”) According to recent speculative literature, the title held by a group of European aristocratic families allegedly descended from the family lines of…
REUSS, THEODOR
German singer, journalist, Freemason and secret society founder, (1855–1923). Born in Augsburg, the son of an innkeeper, he began a musical career as a vocalist…