Author : John Lawrence Reynolds
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 161145042X
Provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world's most notorious secret societies, chronicling their origins, history, initiations, rituals, beliefs, activities, secret signs, members, and influence.
Author : Shelley Klein
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843178133
"The Most Evil Secret Societies in History" examines fifteen of the most notorious organisations the world has ever seen.
Author : Joel Levy
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Secret societies
ISBN : 9781435138995
Author : John Lawrence Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Roving from the parched wadis of the Middle East, to an isolated farmhouse in rural Quebec, to the crowed boutiques of Beverly Hills, master storyteller and award-winning writer John Lawrence Reynolds explores the most notorious secret societies in history, probing their origins and activities, and revealing secrets maintained and distorted over hundred of years. Reynolds peels away the layers of speculation, paranoia and fear, and shines a brilliant light on individuals and organizations that have generated suspicion and terror over several centuries. He treats the reader to a behind-the-scenes look at rituals and initiations, artifacts and secret signs, influences and dangers. And in the telling, he uncovers a rogue's gallery of assassins, con artists, thieves, racists, drug smugglers, adulterers, pranksters and crooks. But where does the truth lie? Does global power actually control the election of world leaders? Has an ancient mystical religion really been reduced to a length of red string selling for a dollar an inch? Are some secret societies little more than a group of boys playing at secret handshakes? From the Assassins to the Yakuza, from Freemasons to Bonesmen, shadow people and their secrets have flourished throughout history. Some fear them, some dismiss them, but everyone is fascinated by them. Secret societies fuel our imagination, and their shadows continue to fall across our daily lives.
Author : Robin Brown
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770229213
Cecil John Rhodes made a fortune from diamonds and gold, became prime minister of the Cape, and had a country named after him, but his ambitions were far greater than that. When he was still in his twenties, after a meeting with General Gordon of Khartoum, Rhodes set up a Secret Society with the aim of establishing a new world order. The society, disciplined on Jesuit-style rules, became Rhodes’s lifelong obsession, and after his death it lived on and grew under the leadership of his executor, Lord Alfred Milner. The society played a key role in the governance of Britain during the Great War and the peace terms to end it, and it was linked to appeasement initiatives involving Hitler, the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson before World War II. Echoes of the Secret Society survive in different guises to this day, including the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Rhodes Scholarships. In The Secret Society, Robin Brown unpacks this astonishing and largely unknown history. He brings Rhodes, his companions and his successors to life by drawing from diaries and letters, and sheds new light on Rhodes’s homosexuality. Ranging from the diamond mines of Kimberley to the halls of power in Westminster, and peopled with characters such as General Gordon, Leander Starr Jameson, W.T. Stead, Olive Schreiner, the Princess Radziwill, Joséph Chamberlain and David Lloyd George, this book is a page-turner that will make you see the world, both past and present, in a different light.
Author : John Lawrence Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Large print books
ISBN : 9781407414898
The Cosa Nostra, Al Qaeda, the Triads, the Assassins, the Yakuza, Kabbalah, the Freemasons and the Druids. Secret societies have flourished throughout history, capturing the public imagination and generating fear, suspicion and above all fascination. John Lawrence Reynolds takes a behind-the-scenes look at the origins, initiations, secret signs and famous members of the most notorious secret societies of all time.
Author : James S Pollock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781544192697
Want to learn the secrets of secret societies? Have you or a family member been trapped in a secret society? Are secret societies really dangerous or just a group of like-minded people trying to accomplish something important for the betterment of the world? In this book, Notorious Secret Societies, you'll everything you want and need to know! Things aren't always what they seem to be. Looks can be deceiving and just because you don't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Take for example the air we breathe. If seeing is believing, then it means oxygen, as we know it, doesn't exist. But it does exist and the fact that we're alive is living proof of such. Or how about carbon monoxide? It's not something that we can see but many people all over the world are killed by it. Because they don't see it, they unknowingly breathe it and fall victim to its poisonous power. Secrecy can be a lethal weapon! And so it is with The Worlds' Most Notorious Secret Societies. Their power and ability to do what they want is highly contingent on being able to keep their supposed secret agendas secret. The day they're purported sinister agendas get exposed is the day they fail to achieve their grand agendas. That's why more than ever, it's important to know who these secret societies are and the reason why they're very controversial. In this book, you'll discover secrets from some of the world's most notorious secret societies. The Free and Accepted Masons (Freemasons) The Order of the Illuminati, The Knights Templar The Bilderberg Group The Order of the Skulls and Bones The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) The Church of Scientology
Author : Arthur Goldwag
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0307456668
Did you know? • Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. • The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers. • Groom Lake, Dreamland, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, The Farm, Watertown Strip, Red Square, “The Box,” are all names for Area 51. An indispensable guide, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar—the Kennedy assassinations, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, the People's Temple and Heaven's Gate—and some surprising, like Oulipo, a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces, and the Chauffeurs, an eighteenth-century society of French home invaders, who set fire to their victims' feet.
Author : Neil Turitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1951274911
For centuries, humans have had a fascination with secret societies. Some societies that are hundreds of years old - like the Illuminati and the Freemasons - are still relevant today. Or, at least, they are thought to be. But why? After all this time, why do people still care about things like that? Whatever it is, Inside Secret Societies gets to the bottom of it. We're taking the oath to reveal some of the more secretive of the secret societies, as well as some of the less secretive ones. Packed with plenty of minutiae and little known facts, this will be popular addition to those into manifestos.
Author : Bill Loomis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1439671923
Secret societies have operated in Detroit for most of the city's history. Many started for fun and companionship. Others had more serious ends in mind. The African American Mysteries: The Order of the Men of Oppression helped enslaved people escape the South for freedom in Canada. During the Civil War, so-called black lantern societies like the Knights of the Golden Circle and the Union League waged a covert war in Detroit and across the northern Midwest. In the last century, it wasn't uncommon for a sober suburbanite to catch the train to Detroit and don yellow silk pantaloons, a purple fez and embroidered vest to drink "Tarantula juice." Join Bill Loomis in this fascinating look into the secret world of these groups.
