ORDER OF MOPSES
When Pope Clement XII formally condemned Freemasonry in 1738, many Catholic members of the Craft in Germany, France, and Austria had to renounce Masonic membership.…
Author: Lux Ferre
ORDER OF CAMELS
Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920, the Order of Camels was a political secret society dedicated to overturning Prohibition in America. The founding members chose…
ORDER OF BARDS OVATES AND DRUIDS [OBOD]
The largest and most active Druid order in the world as of this writing, the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD) was founded by…
ORDER OF ANTI-POKE-NOSES
Founded in Searcy County, Arkansas in 1923, the Order of Anti-Poke-Noses was a secret society founded to oppose the revived Ku Klux Klan. Its constitution…
ORDER OF AMERICAN KNIGHTS [OAK]
A pro-Confederacy secret society during the American Civil War, the Order of American Knights (OAK) was founded by Phineas C. Wright in 1863 in St…
OPUS DEI
The most controversial religious organization in the Roman Catholic Church today, the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei – to give it its…
NIHILISTS
A radical movement in late nineteenth-century Russia, the Nihilists emerged as the political wing of a Russian counterculture that prefigured nearly every detail of the…
NEW WORLD ORDER
On January 16, 1991, as American aircraft bombed Baghdad in the early hours of the first Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush gave a…
NEO-NAZI SECRET SOCIETIES
The process by which secret society fiction is recycled into secret society fact has rarely been so clearly shown as in the rise of neo-Nazi…
NATIVE AMERICAN SECRET SOCIETIES
Like traditional cultures worldwide, the native peoples of North and South America have a rich and varied tradition of secret societies. A handful of Native…
