Category: Secret Societies

Among the most important occult societies in Elizabethan England, the School of Night almost certainly did not go by that name, if the group had…

One of the two most widespread secret societies in West Africa, the Sande Society is a women’s society found along the Upper Guinea coast from…

The world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific society, the Royal Society emerged out of the underworld of English occult secret societies in the early seventeenth…

One of the most important secret societies in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Rite of Strict Observance had its roots…

A major secret society in early nineteenth-century Italy, the Raggi (“rays” or “radii”) emerged in northern Italy sometime in 1797 in the aftermath of the…

Among the most widely known secret societies of the classical world, the Pythagorean Brotherhood was founded by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c.570–c.4<95 BCE) in Crotona,…

One of the two most widespread secret societies of West Africa, the Poro Society is found all along the Upper Guinea coast from Liberia to…

One of the most important political secret societies of the nineteenth century, the Philadelphes began life in 1797 as a student literary club in the…

Among the major political secret societies in recent European history, P2 (standing for Propaganda Due, “Propagation 2”) was founded in Italy in 1877 as a…

One of many occult secret societies active in America today, the Ordo Templi Astarte (Order of Templars of Astarte, OTA) was founded by American magician…