In Munich after the First World War, the Thule Society presented itself as a selective association for Germanic antiquity while promoting völkisch racial nationalism, antisemitism, and…
In Victorian Britain, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn offered a private path into occult study through graded initiation, ritual, symbolism, and restricted instruction. Founded in 1888 by…
Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO, is often remembered through Aleister Crowley, but it began before him in the early twentieth-century world of European occult fraternities, irregular Freemasonry,…
In France, on Friday the thirteenth of October, thirteen hundred and seven, King Philip the Fourth ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar, one of medieval Christianity’s most privileged…
In nineteen sixty-nine, deputies entered a remote desert property near Vidal and Blythe, California, connected to Solar Lodge, a small occult initiatory group led by Georgina “Jean” Brayton. The group…
On July eighth, twenty twenty-two, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign speech in Nara. The accused killer said his anger came from his family’s financial ruin…
In February nineteen eighty-seven, police in Tallahassee, Florida, found two well-dressed men with six dirty, hungry children in Myers Park. The adults were linked to the Finders, a secretive…
For centuries, rumors have claimed that presidents, monarchs, bankers, aristocrats, and cultural elites secretly belong to one hidden religion. The historical record does not support that claim. But…
Before the modern Illuminati became a symbol of hidden global power, there was a documented secret order in Bavaria. Founded on May first, seventeen seventy-six, by Adam Weishaupt, the Bavarian…
The Order of Nine Angles, also known as ONA or O9A, is not a conventional secret society with a public leader, headquarters, or known membership list. It emerged from the United Kingdom in the late…
