Secret societies are relatively small groups in which membership is gained by initiation. Many of the groups practice ritual ceremonies with religious influences, particularly that of mysticism and Satanism. Many of the societies claim to be just a social club, but others speculate that these fraternities have a hidden agenda – such as gaining power within society or amassing large amounts of wealth.
Since the practices of these societies are meant to be “secret,” much of the information about them are in question. The rumours that circulate about these secret societies lead many to form conspiracy theories and hypotheses about their internal motives. The most common hypotheses and theories are:
1) plans for starting a New World Order, and
2) deceiving the majority of the population to gain power and wealth.
BELOW IS A LIST WITH SECRET SOCIETIES, CLICK ON THE NAME FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Like other traditional societies around the world, the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa possess a rich and varied body of secret ...
The forced transportation of millions of Africans into slavery in the New World set in motion an important but muchneglected ...
Although World War II came to a decisive and bloody conclusion way back in the summer of 1945, it was ...
Founded in 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee, the All-American Association was one of many organizations that rose in opposition to the ...
In some nineteenth- and twentieth-century conspiracy theories, the name of a secret society conspiring to overthrow monarchy and private property ...
A competitor to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Order of Clansmen was founded in San Francisco ...
Founded at Clinton, Iowa in 1887, the APA was an anti-Catholic secret society motivated by fears that the Roman Catholic ...
A secret society organized and operated by the US government, the American Protective League was founded in 1917 after the ...
American Vision is the brainchild of a man named Steve Schiffman, American Vision was established in 1978 and operates out ...
A short-lived but influential British Druid order, the AAOD was founded in 1874 by Robert Wentworth Little (1840–78), an avid ...
The most successful of American Rosicrucian orders, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis was founded in 1925 in Tampa, Florida ...
A short-lived rival to Freemasonry, the Ancient Noble Order of Gormogons surfaced in the fall of 1724, announcing itself to ...
The oldest firmly documented Druid organization in the world, the Ancient Order of Druids was founded in 1781, probably by ...
Originally chartered as the American branch of the Ancient Masonic Order of Druids (AMOD), the Ancient Order of Druids in ...
The first and one of the most popular of the insurance lodges of nineteenth-century America, the Ancient Order of United ...
One of two secret societies closely associated with the legacy of British occultist and would-be Antichrist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), the ...
Among the world’s most famous secret societies, the Assassins emerged out of the Ismaili sect of Islam in the late ...
An influential occult secret society in the late twentieth-century magical community, Aurum Solis (Latin for “gold of the sun”) was ...
The most famous political secret society of all time, the focus of countless conspiracy theories and paranoid fantasies for more ...
The Bilderbergers, a powerful international secret society made up of six hundred wealthy and influential individuals,has an aggressive plan to ...
One of the most influential conservative secret societies in pre-revolutionary Russia, the Black Hundreds – more formally known as the ...
In the occult scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a term for occult secret societies devoted to ...
One of dozens of private clubs in American cities that cater to the needs and interests of America’s economic and ...
According to the early writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, a secret society active in America and ...
According to a handful of late twentieth-century conspiracy theorists, the oldest secret society in the world, founded in prehistoric times ...
A violent revolutionary secret society that flared and burnt out in early 1980s America, the Bruders Schweigen (German, “Silent Brotherhood”) ...
French for “hood.” Popular name of the Organisation Secrete de l’Action Révolutionnaire Nationale (Secret Organization of National Revolutionary Action), a ...
A minor secret society with a major impact on late nineteenth-century culture, the Catholic Order of the Rose+Cross (Ordre Catholique ...
The most powerful conservative secret society in Napoleonic France, the Chevaliers du Foi or Chevaliers of Faith were organized in ...
A handful of manuscript pages among the private papers of John Toland (1670–1722), the prolific Irish writer and philosopher, reveal ...
A major player in the twentieth-century American occult scene, the Church of Light traces its ancestry back to the Hermetic ...
One of the alleged secret societies proposed as secret masters of the world by modern conspiracy theorists, the Committee of ...
One of the two major secret groups involved in the American Revolution, the Committees of Correspondence came into being in ...
A short-lived secret society born and destroyed in the ferment of Revolutionary France, the Conspiration des Égales or Conspiracy of ...
Among the most colorful of nineteenth-century American secret societies, E Clampus Vitus was founded by goldminers in the frontier town ...
The most influential of eighteenth-century French occult secret societies, the Élus Coens or Elect Cohens were the creation of Martinez ...
The Elks are the oldest and largest of the “Big Three” orders that name themselves after assorted wildlife; the other ...
The most famous of Irish revolutionary secret societies, the Fenian Brotherhood emerged after the catastrophic potato blight in Ireland in ...
According to its own legends, the Foresters began in medieval times in the royal forests of England, and admitted men ...
Of the fraternal secret societies of late nineteenth century, few have a more colorful origin than the Fraternal Order of ...
Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that bases its principles and teachings on many great streams of philosophical wisdom and incorporates ...
A core element of the underground of racist secret societies that laid the foundations for the Nazi party, the Germanenorden ...
The collapse of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.) in 1886 left scores of initiates in Europe and ...
One of the most influential magical secret societies of the nineteenth century, the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.) ...
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is one of the most influential Western occult societies of the late 19th ...
A leading force in the proto-Nazi underworld of early twentieth-century central Europe, the Höhere Armanen-Orden (Higher Armanen Order, HAO) rose ...
The first magical secret society to embrace the late twentieth-century paradigm of chaos magic, the Illuminates of Thanateros was founded ...
ILLUMINATI The Illuminati is the ultimate secret society,a cabal that stretches its tentacles of control to encompass the entire world ...
The first fraternal secret society original to America, the Improved Order of Red Men traces its roots back to the ...
Founded in 1851 in Utica, New York, the Independent Order of Good Templars was the most successful secret society in ...
Teenage girls who are related to Master Masons can apply for membership in Job's Daughters. Mrs. Ethel T. W. Mick ...
The premier French occult secret society of the late nineteenth century, the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose Croix (Kabbalistic Order ...
The Knights of Columbus was the creation of Father Michael McGivney, an Irish-American Catholic priest in New Haven, Connecticut who ...
A secret society opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of Liberty was founded in New York in 1923 ...
The Maccabees was founded in 1878 in London, Ontario, as a fraternal order with mutual Assessment fraternal benefits. There were ...
One of the three largest fraternal secret societies of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century America, the Knights of Pythias were the ...
Founded in 1923 in Pennsylvania, the Knights of the Flaming Circle was a secret society organized to oppose the revived ...
The most important pro-Southern secret society in the American Civil War, the Knights of the Golden Circle was founded in ...
Founded by John E. Burbage of Baltimore, Maryland in 1873. There were three degrees: Pilgrim, Knight, and Crusader. Combination of ...
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR : In the year 1119, nine French knights living in Jerusalem formed a religious order devoted to the ...
The Ku Klux Klan,born in 1865,had nearly died out until Hollywood resurrected it in 1915. On December 24, 1865, in ...
A German revolutionary secret society of the 1830s, the Bund der Geächteten or League of Outlaws was founded in Paris ...
In 1837, as the League of Outlaws was falling apart, several of its members in Paris drew up a new ...
The first important Italian political secret society, the Lega Nera (Italian for “Black League”) took shape around 1796 in the ...
Martinism A spiritual, mystical, and magical organization that has been derived and fused into the Martinist Order from the system ...
Beginning in 1948, members of the Kikuyu tribe in what was then the British colony of Kenya organized a secret ...
The attraction of the forest seems to be strong for founders of secret societies. In addition to the Fendeurs, the ...
One of the largest fraternal orders today, the Loyal Order of Moose was founded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1888 by ...
Among the most remarkable secret societies to emerge from the golden age of American fraternalism in the second half of ...
Like traditional cultures worldwide, the native peoples of North and South America have a rich and varied tradition of secret ...
The process by which secret society fiction is recycled into secret society fact has rarely been so clearly shown as ...
Once the largest fraternal secret society in the world, the Odd Fellows emerged in England sometime before 1700. Documentation concerning ...
A pro-Confederacy secret society during the American Civil War, the Order of American Knights (OAK) was founded by Phineas C ...
Founded in Searcy County, Arkansas in 1923, the Order of Anti-Poke-Noses was a secret society founded to oppose the revived ...
Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920, the Order of Camels was a political secret society dedicated to overturning Prohibition in ...
South Bend, Indiana was the city where this "animal" lodge was born. John W. Talbott and a small group of ...
Order of the Garter The highest order of knights in Great Britain, founded by king Edward III in 1350, it ...
An influential German Rosicrucian order, the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (Orden des Gold- und Rosenkreutz) was founded ...
The Order of the Happy (Ordre des Felicitaires) was founded in 1743 in Paris. One of the first secret societies ...
One of the odder secret societies of Victorian Britain, the Order of the White Rose was founded in 1886 in ...
One of the first modern secret societies open to men and women alike, the Order of Woodcutters (Ordre des Fendeurs) ...
One of the most influential secret societies in the proto-Nazi underworld of early twentieth-century central Europe, the Ordo Novi Templi ...
One of many occult secret societies active in America today, the Ordo Templi Astarte (Order of Templars of Astarte, OTA) ...
One of many occult secret societies active in America today, the Ordo Templi Astarte (Order of Templars of Astarte, OTA) ...
Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) Quasi-Mason magical order founded in Germany in 1901 and focused on sex magic as the key ...
Among the major political secret societies in recent European history, P2 (standing for Propaganda Due, “Propagation 2”) was founded in ...
One of the most important political secret societies of the nineteenth century, the Philadelphes began life in 1797 as a ...
One of the two most widespread secret societies of West Africa, the Poro Society is found all along the Upper ...
Among the most widely known secret societies of the classical world, the Pythagorean Brotherhood was founded by the Greek philosopher ...
A major secret society in early nineteenth-century Italy, the Raggi (“rays” or “radii”) emerged in northern Italy sometime in 1797 ...
From: https://www.redmen.org/ Who Are The Red Men? The Fraternity was founded in 1765 and was originally known as the Sons ...
One of the most important secret societies in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Rite of ...
The most secret of secret societies,the Rosicrucians gained ancient wisdom that enabled them to create a science greatly in advance ...
The world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific society, the Royal Society emerged out of the underworld of English occult secret ...
One of the two most widespread secret societies in West Africa, the Sande Society is a women’s society found along ...
Among the most important occult societies in Elizabethan England, the School of Night almost certainly did not go by that ...
One of the major occult secret societies in the western world today, the Servants of the Light began in 1965 ...
One of the many secret societies who have been tabbed as the hidden puppet masters behind the New World Order, ...
Shriners International, previously known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (A.A.O.N.M.S.) and also commonly ...
One of the most active secret societies at the height of the French Revolution, the Cercle Social or Social Circle ...
Originally an offshoot of the radical Sons of Liberty faction in the American colonies and the early United States, the ...
The most influential British occult secret society of the twentieth century, the Society (originally Fraternity) of the Inner Light was ...
The first known Irish political secret society, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone, ...
One of many esoteric secret societies in pre-Revolutionary France, the Society of Universal Harmony (Société de l’Harmonie Universelle) was founded ...
The self-immolation of the Solar Temple (Temple Solaire), a French occult secret society of the late 1980s and early 1990s, ...
One of two secret societies involved in the early stages of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty were founded ...
According to a popular medieval legend, the spear that pierced the side of Jesus of Nazareth during his crucifixion, wielded ...
One of the principal secret societies founded by Filippo Buonarroti, the doyen of political subversion in early nineteenth-century Europe, the ...
Among the most colourful occult secret societies in the modern magical scene, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) was founded ...
The Abbey of Thelema is an independent initiatory magical group patterned after the Argenteum Astrum (AA, Order of the Silver ...
The Fraternity of Saturni was an influential occult group in Germany before World War II that accepted many of Aleister ...
The Grange From: https://www.grange.org/history.htm BIRTH OF AN AMERICAN TREASURE The Grange came into being in 1867 because of the vision ...
Its members assure outsiders that Skull and Bones is simply a college fraternity that taps fifteen rich boys each year ...
Among the most notorious secret societies in history, the Thugs practiced a combination of human sacrifice and highway robbery on ...
Dedicated to the rebirth of Aryan/Teutonic supremacy, the resurrection of Nordic mysticism, and the defeat of Christianity, the Thule Society ...
The most powerful and widely known of Chinese secret societies, the Triad Society traces its ancestry back to five Shaolin ...
One of the most influential secret movements in Chinese history, the broad spectrum of secret religious organizations commonly termed White ...
Originally named the Black Order, this international neo-Nazi secret society was founded in January 1994 by Kerry Bolton, formerly a ...
The first known Irish political secret society, the Whiteboys first appeared in Tipperary in the autumn of 1761. Enclosure Acts ...
Starting in the early nineteenth century, Yale University has been home to a number of secret student societies, serving many ...
One of many secret societies in Italy in the tumultuous decade of the 1830s, Young Italy (La Giovine Italia) was ...