ANTIMASONRY
Just as Freemasonry has been the most widely copied model in the world of secret societies, reactions against it have served as a model for…
Author: Lux Ferre
ANTIMASONIC PARTY
The first significant third political party in American history, the Antimasonic Party emerged out of the furor over the abduction and murder of William Morgan,…
ANTIKYTHERA DEVICE
In 1900 a sponge diver in the waters off the little Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete at the western entrance to the…
ANTIENT—MODERN SCHISM
The most significant split in English Freemasonry since the founding of the first Grand Lodge in 1717, the schism between the Antients (or Ancients) and…
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Founded by Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), the Anthroposophical Society was established in Dornach, Switzerland, in 1912 as a vehicle for Steiner’s system of occult…
ANTARCTICA
The forbidding icebound continent at the bottom of the world was a target for speculation long before its existence was even certain. Many maps from…
ANNUNAKI
Originally the Babylonian word for “god,” this word acquired a new meaning in many corners of the alternative-realities scene in Europe and America with the…
ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN [AOUW]
The first and one of the most popular of the insurance lodges of nineteenth-century America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen got into the insurance…
ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS IN AMERICA [AODA]
Originally chartered as the American branch of the Ancient Masonic Order of Druids (AMOD), the Ancient Order of Druids in America was founded by American…
ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS [AOD]
The oldest firmly documented Druid organization in the world, the Ancient Order of Druids was founded in 1781, probably by a London carpenter, Henry Hurle,…
