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…
Author: Lux Ferre
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…
RETROSPECTIVE RECRUITMENT
One of the primary methods used by secret societies to conceal their actual origins, retrospective recruitment was defined and satirized by a famous passage in…
Reptilians
One of the features of the 1980s UFO scene was a series of attempts to categorize the entities reported by people who had encountered UFO…
RENNES-LE-CHÂTEAU
A small village in the hills of southern France, located between the walled medieval city of Carcassonne to the north and the slopes of the…
REJECTED KNOWLEDGE
The precise equivalent of religious heresy in today’s secular scientific culture, the field of rejected knowledge consists of all those beliefs, ideas, and systems of…
RANDOLPH, PASCHAL BEVERLY
American occultist, spiritualist, physician, politician, author, and founder of secret societies, 1825–75. A leading figure in nineteenth-century American occultism, Randolph was the illegitimate son of…
RAMSAY, ANDREW MICHAEL
Scottish Freemason and Jacobite, 1686–1743. The son of a baker in the Scottish town of Ayr, Ramsay attended Edinburgh University, then worked as a tutor…
