CRATA REPOA
According to a ritual text anonymously published at Berlin in 1770, the highest order of ancient Egyptian initiation, consisting of seven degrees. The ancient Egyptian…
Author: Lux Ferre
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS [CFR]
Among the most prestigious of American think-tanks, and the centrepiece of most recent speculations on the New World Order, the Council on Foreign Relations was…
CONSPIRACY OF EQUALS
A short-lived secret society born and destroyed in the ferment of Revolutionary France, the Conspiration des Égales or Conspiracy of Equals was the brainchild of…
CONCATENATED ORDER OF Hoo-Hoo
One of the oddities of American fraternalism, the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo was founded in a train station in Gurdon, Arkansas in 1892, by businessmen…
COMPAGNONNAGE
An important system of secret brotherhoods in late medieval and early modern France, the institution of Compagnonnage emerged among journeymen of a variety of French…
COMMUNISM
“A specter is haunting Europe,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels claimed in the ringing opening lines of The Communist Manifesto: “the specter of Communism.” The…
COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE
One of the two major secret groups involved in the American Revolution, the Committees of Correspondence came into being in the 1760s among leading citizens…
Committee of 300
One of the alleged secret societies proposed as secret masters of the world by modern conspiracy theorists, the Committee of 300 owes its existence in…
CO-MASONRY
A branch of Freemasonry that admits women as well as men to membership, Co-Masonry traces its roots to a schism in the French branch of…
CLUB OF ROME
One of the many organizations named in modern conspiracy literature as parts of a global plot against humanity, the Club of Rome was established in…
