ALTERNATIVE 3
On June 20, 1977, a British television network, Anglia TV, ran a mock-documentary titled Alternative 3, perhaps the most successful science-fiction spoof since the radio…
Author: Lux Ferre
ALTA VENDITA
In some nineteenth- and twentieth-century conspiracy theories, the name of a secret society conspiring to overthrow monarchy and private property across Europe. The name is…
ALLEGORY
One of the core elements in secret society ritual, symbolism, and literature is allegory, the creation or use of a story with a hidden meaning…
ALL-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee, the All-American Association was one of many organizations that rose in opposition to the revived Ku Klux Klan. Its…
Aldworth, Elizabeth
According to contemporary accounts, Elizabeth Aldworth (née St Leger), the daughter of Viscount Doneraile, was the first woman to be initiated into Freemasonry. In 1710,…
AKHENATEN
Pharaoh of Egypt, c.1400–c.1350 BCE. The second son of Amenhotep III of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, the future Pharaoh Akhenaten was originally named Amenhotep. There may…
AGES OF THE WORLD
Since ancient times many cultures have divided the history of the world into a series of distinct ages, separated by cataclysms. The oldest documented teaching…
AGHARTA
AGHARTA An underground city supposedly hidden away somewhere in the vast-nesses of central Asia, Agharta – also spelled Aghartta, Agharti, Agartha, and Arghati – has…
AFRICAN SECRET SOCIETIES
Like other traditional societies around the world, the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa possess a rich and varied body of secret society traditions, many of which…
AFRICAN-AMERICAN SECRET SOCIETIES
The forced transportation of millions of Africans into slavery in the New World set in motion an important but muchneglected tradition of secret societies. The…
