Secret Society Histories

An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group.

An instruction manual for the rites and procedures of a Cryptic Mason Lodge.

To those who wish to understand the reason of this steady recurrence of mystic tradition in every century, these studies may be of some use. They will serve as literary landmarks to guide the seeker to those distant sources whence flow faint echoes of divine truths--the heritage of the divine human race; truths that bring dim memories to the soul which are its highest impulse, and give the clue that guides it to the inner "science of the soul"--the mystic quest of all the saints, and the hidden truth that all religions have tried to teach, and which only a few in each religion have ever realized.

Originally published by a Masonic printer, the author delves into the relationships between Masonic traditions and the ancient mysteries.

The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by New York baner David Rockefeller, then Chairman of the Chase Manhatten Bank, and Harvard University academic Zbignieuw Brzezinski, later to become National Security Assistant to President Jimmy Carter.

Freemasonry and theosophy traced back into ancient India's esoteric traditions.

The position of eminence, the great respect and the profound reverence in which the name of WASHINGTON is enshrined in the hearts of the American people, and particularly so, with the members of this Fraternity, and of all true lovers of liberty and freedom wheresoever dispersed, is the reason, if any be needed, why everything relating to this great man and worthy brother should be preserved for the future generations, to be used by them as a guide, in the cultivation of those cardinal virtues of Honor and Integrity, that should ever characterize the conduct of a good man and a good Mason.