SCHWALLER DE LUBICZ, RENÉ AOR
French esoteric and secret society member, 1887–1961. One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century occultism, René Schwaller was born in Alsace and served an…
Author: Lux Ferre
SCHOOL OF NIGHT
Among the most important occult societies in Elizabethan England, the School of Night almost certainly did not go by that name, if the group had…
SCHAW, WILLIAM
Scottish builder, engineer, and Freemason, 1550–1602. The younger son of John Schaw, an influential Clackmannanshire laird, Schaw grew up close to the Scottish court. He…
SANDE SOCIETY
One of the two most widespread secret societies in West Africa, the Sande Society is a women’s society found along the Upper Guinea coast from…
SAMOTHRACIAN MYSTERIES
The Samothracian mysteries, an important ancient Greek mystery cult, were celebrated on the island of Samothrace in the northwest Aegean Sea around the time of…
SACRED GEOMETRY
Until recently one of the most neglected branches of the western esoteric tradition, sacred geometry began to experience a renaissance in the last two decades…
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
The victory of the Bolshevik party in the Russian revolution of 1917 marks one of the great watersheds in the history of conspiracy theories. While…
ROYAL SOCIETY
The world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific society, the Royal Society emerged out of the underworld of English occult secret societies in the early seventeenth…
ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND
Among the oldest Masonic high degrees, the Royal Order of Scotland first surfaced in 1750, when a Provincial Grand Lodge of that order was founded…
ROYAL ARCH
The first of the higher degrees added to Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, the Royal Arch was probably of French origin but first surfaced in…
