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Rosicrucians, Freemasons & Secret Societies

The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries

by Charles William Heckethorn

A sprawling Victorian survey of mystery cults, Gnostic sects, Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Illuminati, political brotherhoods and criminal societies. Uneven and dated in its scholarship, but a much-cited period source that shows how the nineteenth century imagined hidden fraternities.

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