The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: The Secret Society That Transformed Western Magick The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was one of the most influential occult societies ever established in
The Loyal Order of Moose is one of the largest fraternal orders in modern North America. Founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1888, it began as a social and drinking club for working-class men, but later developed into a major fraternal,
The Servants of the Light, often abbreviated as SOL, is one of the important modern magical orders within the Western Mystery Tradition. It developed from the teachings of Dion Fortune and the
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 a name at all; the phrase comes
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 Sierra Leone to Liberia. In earlier times,
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 century. By 1645, if not earlier, small
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 in the Templar Masonry invented by Jacobite
For close to two centuries, if not longer, initiation into fraternal secret societies has been described throughout the English-speaking world as “riding the goat.” The exact origins of the phrase remain obscure,
The rise of the Whiteboys movement in southern Ireland in the late eighteenth century inspired Irish farmers and labourers throughout the island to consider secret societies and violence as options in the
(Latin, “King God.”) According to recent speculative literature, the title held by a group of European aristocratic families allegedly descended from the family lines of the 24 High Priests of the Temple
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 French invasion. The French were originally welcomed
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, a Greek colonial city in what is
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