RAINBOW CITY
At the extreme end of the contemporary alternative-realities spectrum is the claim that an ancient Martian city, made of multicoloured plastic blocks, lies hidden somewhere…
Author: Lux Ferre
CELL SYSTEM
The basic structure of political secret societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the cell system was pioneered by Italian secret societies in the very…
RAGGI
A major secret society in early nineteenth-century Italy, the Raggi (“rays” or “radii”) emerged in northern Italy sometime in 1797 in the aftermath of the…
PYTHAGOREAN BROTHERHOOD
Among the most widely known secret societies of the classical world, the Pythagorean Brotherhood was founded by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c.570–c.4<95 BCE) in Crotona,…
THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION
The most influential book in the history of modern antisemitism and the original source for most of the key themes of contemporary conspiracy theory, The…
PRIORY OF SION
The most spectacular secret society hoax in recent history, the Priory of Sion (Prieuré de Sion) was founded in 1956 in the small town of…
PRINCE HALL MASONRY
Prince Hall was a black minister of West Indian origin who emigrated to Boston in 1765 and became the pastor of a Methodist church in…
PORO SOCIETY
One of the two most widespread secret societies of West Africa, the Poro Society is found all along the Upper Guinea coast from Liberia to…
PIKE, ALBERT
American soldier, author, occultist and Freemason, 1809–91. Born in Massachusetts to a working-class family, Pike showed intellectual promise from an early age and mastered Latin,…
PHILIKE HETAIRIA
A Greek offshoot of the Carbonari, the Philike Hetairia (“Brotherly Association” or “Friendly Society”) was founded by a group of exiled Greek patriots in Odessa,…
