Mysteria : History of the secret doctrines and mystic rites of ancient religions and medieval and modern secret orders
Original Publication
Chicago: Stockham Publishing Company, Inc., 1895.
Contents
Mysteries of the East and of barbarous nations -- The Grecian mysteries and the Roman Bacchanalia -- The Pythagorean League and other secret associations -- Son of man; Son of God -- A pseudo-Messiah; a lying prophet -- The Knights Templar -- The Femgerichte -- Stonemasons' lodges of the Middle Age -- Rise and constitution of Freemasonry -- Secret societies of the eighteenth century -- The Illuminati -- Secret societies of various kinds.
Credits
Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
