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Secret societies : the complete guide to histories, rites, and rituals / Nick Redfern.

Redfern, Nicholas, 1964- (author.).

Summary:

"Shedding light onto sometimes sinister and coercive groups, Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites and Rituals is packed with details on nearly 200 organizations, religions and cults, government plots, and personalities, including their histories, beliefs, intentions, and impact. This important book uncovers and examines the hidden, overlooked, and buried history of some of the most notorious groups, including the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Bilderberg Group, MKUltra, Skull and Bones, Ordo Templi Orientis, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Knights Templar, the Ku Klux Klan, La Cosa Nostra, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Montauk Project, to name just a few." -- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781578594832
ISBN: 1578594839
Physical Description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-410) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A -- Ace of Spades Group 1 -- Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network 2 -- Aetherius Society 4 -- Africa's Secret Criminal Enterprises 6 -- Ahnenerbe 8 -- AIDS Secret Group 10 -- Alchemists 12 -- American Nazi Party 13 -- American Protective Association 15 -- American Vision 17 -- America's Secret Nazi Scientists 18 -- Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine 21 -- Antient Noble Order of the Gormogons 22 -- Archaeology Office 23 -- Aryan Nations 26 -- Asian Organized Crime 27 -- Assassins 28 -- Aswang Plot 33 -- Atticus Institute 34 -- Aum Shinrikyo 35 -- B -- Benandanti 37 -- Bilderberg Group 38 -- Bird Flu 40 -- Black-Eyed Children 43 -- Black Helicopter Group 45 -- Bohemian Club 49 -- Bohemian Grove 51 -- Brookings Institution 52 -- C -- Camorra 57 -- Cannibal Cult 59 -- Carbonari Society 61 -- Cattle Mutilation Group 62 -- Chemtrail Group 64 -- Church of Light 66 -- Church of Satan 67 -- Cicada 3301 69 -- Club of Rome 71 -- Collins Elite 72 -- Committee of 300 75 -- Communist Contactees 77 -- Conspiracy of the Equals 80 -- Council for National Policy 82 -- Council on Foreign Relations 84 -- Cult of the Head 85 -- Cult of the Moon Beast 88 -- Cult of the Peacock 91 -- D -- Dead Sea Scrolls 93 -- Decided Ones of Jupiter the Thunderer 95 -- Deras 96 -- Devil's Breath Group 99 -- Diana, Princess of Wales, Death 100 -- Dianic Cult 101 -- Dick, Philip K 102 -- Dowsers 104 -- Druids 106 -- Dulce Secret Base 109 -- E-F -- Egyptian Magicians 111 -- Fabian Society 113 -- Federal Emergency Management Agency 114 -- Fountain of the World 116 -- Freemasons 117 -- Friends of Hecate 119 -- G -- Gardufia 121 -- Germanenorden 122 -- Goff, Kenneth 123 -- Green Man 125 -- Guild of St. Bernulphus 128 -- H -- Halloween 131 -- Hamatsa 133 -- Heaven's Gate 135 -- Hellfire Club 136 -- Hemingway, Ernest 138 -- Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor 140 -- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 141 -- Hitler, Adolf 143 -- Horsa Tradition 145 -- I-J -- I AM 147 -- Illuminati 149 -- Immortality Group 150 -- Improved Order of Red Men 152 -- Jack the Ripper 153 -- Jacobin Club 155 -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory 156 -- John Birch Society 158 -- K -- Kabbalistic Order of the Rose and Cross 161 -- King Arthur Secrets 162 -- Knights Templar 164 -- Know-Nothing Party 167 -- Ku Klux Klan 168 -- L -- La Cosa Nostra 171 -- League of the Just 172 -- Leek, Sybil 174 -- Lemurians 176 -- Leopard Society 178 -- Liberty Lobby 179 -- Lincoln, President Abraham 180 -- Loch Ness Dragon Cult 184 -- London Underground Society 185 -- Lone Gunmen 187 -- M -- Macumba 189 -- Mad Gasser of Mattoon 190 -- Mafia 193 -- Majestic 12 195 -- Martian Face 197 -- Martian Moon Secrets 200 -- Mermaid Cult 202 -- Microbiology Deaths 204 -- Mind Control Groups 206 -- Ministry of the Chalcedon Foundation 208 -- Minutemen 208 -- Mithraism 209 -- MKNaomi 211 -- MKULtra 212 -- Montauk Project 214 -- Moon Secrets 217 -- N-O -- Nazis 221 -- New Forest Coven 222 -- Octopus 223 -- Operation Often 225 -- Order of Nine Angles 227 -- Ordo Aurum Solis 228 -- Ordo Templi Orientis 229 -- P -- Parsons, Jack 233 -- Pasadena Wolves 236 -- Patriot Act 237 -- Peoples Temple 240 -- Phineas Priesthood 241 -- Pickingill, George 242 -- Pitchfork Murder 245 -- Planetary Defense Coordination Office 247 -- Population Culling Group 250 -- Poro 252 -- Primrose League 253 -- Project Blue Beam 255 -- Project Chatter 256 -- Psychic Spies 257 -- R -- Raëlians 261 -- Ralstonism 263 -- RAND Corporation 265 -- Report from Iron Mountain 268 -- Right Club 271 -- River Thames Mutilation Murder 273 -- Robertson Panel 275 -- Romagna 282 -- Rosemary's Baby 284 -- Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship 286 -- RuSHa 288 -- S -- Sacred Oak 291 -- Sacrifice on the Moors 293 -- Sagan, Carl 294 -- Sande Society 296 -- Santeria 297 -- Satanic Sacrifice 300 -- Scientology 302 -- Scotch Cattle 304 -- Second Coming 305 -- Secret City 307 -- Secret Society of Happy People 309 -- Secret Space Group 310 -- Serpents, Sacrifices and Secrets 313 -- Shape-Shfting Pagans 315 -- Shickshinny Knights of Malta 316 -- Silver Legion of America 318 -- Skinwalkers 319 -- Skull and Bones 321 -- Slenderman Cult 232 -- Sonora Aero Club 324 -- Sons of lee Marvin 326 -- Sons of Satan 328 -- Sorceresses 329 -- Soul-Stealing 331 -- Space Shuttle Challenger 332 -- SS 335 -- STAC 337 -- Star Wars Secret Group 339 -- Stephenville UFO Group 344 -- Strathmore Secrets 347 -- T-U -- Taigheirm 351 -- Texas Taigheirm 354 -- Thuggee 355 -- Thule Society 357 -- Trilateral Commission 359 -- UFO Assassins 360 -- UMMO 364 -- Underground Secret Society 365 -- Ustashi 368 -- V, W, Z -- Vampire Cults 371 -- Voodoo 373 -- Voynich Manuscript 375 -- Vril Society 377 -- Wackenhut Corporation 379 -- Weather Underground Organization 380 -- Weathermen 381 -- Welsh Secret Society 384 -- Werewolf Cult of Australia 385 -- Wicca 386 -- Women in Black 389 -- Wyrley Gang 392 -- Zombie Army 394.