BLACK HUNDREDS
One of the most influential conservative secret societies in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Black Hundreds – more formally known as the Union of the Russian People…
Author: Lux Ferre
BLACK BALL
In most traditional secret societies in the western world, candidates for initiation are elected to membership by a secret ballot of current members of the…
BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI
The most famous political secret society of all time, the focus of countless conspiracy theories and paranoid fantasies for more than two centuries, the Ancient…
BALLARD, GUY
American writer and occultist. Ballard (1878–1939) was born and raised in Kansas, and worked as a mining engineer all over the western United States for…
BAILEY, ALICE
Anglo-American occultist and secret society founder, 1880–1949. Born in Manchester, the daughter of an engineer, Bailey was a devout Christian in her early years and…
BACON, FRANCIS
English philosopher, author, lawyer, and possible secret society member. One of the most brilliant minds of the Elizabethan age, Bacon (1561–1626) was the youngest son…
BABEUF, FRANÇOIS “GRACCHUS”
French conspirator and secret society leader. Born into a poor family in provincial France, Babeuf (1760–97) worked as a minor functionary in the local government…
AURUM SOLIS
An influential occult secret society in the late twentieth-century magical community, Aurum Solis (Latin for “gold of the sun”) was originally founded in 1897 by…
ATKINSON, WILLIAM WALKER
American occultist, author, and secret society member. One of the leading figures in the occult scene in turn of the century America, Atkinson (1862–1932) was…
ASTRONOMICAL RELIGION
One of the most important theories of comparative religion from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the theory of astronomical religion argued that…
