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…
Category: Secret Societies
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…
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…
ASSASSINS
Among the world’s most famous secret societies, the Assassins emerged out of the Ismaili sect of Islam in the late eleventh century CE. Their founder,…
ARGENTEUM ASTRUM [A∴A∴]
One of two secret societies closely associated with the legacy of British occultist and would-be Antichrist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), the Argenteum Astrum (Latin for “silver…
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,…
Ancient Noble Order of Gormogons
A short-lived rival to Freemasonry, the Ancient Noble Order of Gormogons surfaced in the fall of 1724, announcing itself to the world in a London…
ANCIENT MYSTICAL ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS [AMORC]
The most successful of American Rosicrucian orders, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis was founded in 1925 in Tampa, Florida by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939),…