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Influential as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn founded in 1887 by a trio of Freemasons the order’s teachings were based on a collection of documents known as the cipher manuscripts which outlined a complex system of supposedly magical rituals by Rising through a hierarchical system of grades members work to establish a
Connection to their own latent Divinity or polyguardian angel while many contemporary secret societies restricted their membership to men only the Golden Dawn happily accepted women as well influential theater manager Annie hornerman was a member as were prolific Scottish writer Violet tweedale an Irish actress Sarah Allgood in the 1890s the golden Dawn’s
Membership roster boasted hundreds of names including prominent literary figures such as w B Yates and Arthur Mackin a weight co-creator of the widely used Rider weight Tarot deck and famed occultist Alistair Crowley the group’s influence waned after the turn of the century largely due to infighting that caused
The order to Splinter into less successful factions such as the Isis urania and the Stella matatina though its peak era lasted only a few years the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is credited with influencing the modern wicker movement number eight plenty of secret societies make grandiose but conveniently
Unprovable claims about their historical influence but China’s righteous and harmonious fists indisputably changed the course of history in 1899 when its members fermented what became known as the Boxer Rebellion the fists were mostly peasants and Farmers from China’s Chandon Province an area that had suffered droughts floods and famine in the quarter Century
Leading up to the Rebellion after its defeats in the Opium Wars and the first sino-japanese war China’s ruling King Dynasty had been forced to allow considerable foreign activity in the region particularly by German and Japanese interests the fists who became known as foxes because the martial arts exercises they
Performed reminded observers of Shadow Boxing resented the encroachment and blamed foreign occupies for the poor living conditions the boxes first targeted Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians in the late 1890s in 1900 the King Dynasty lent its support to the group and the boxes laid Siege to beijing’s foreign District
The group was armed with knives Spears swords and rifles and they were Fierce and ruthless fighters who believed the calisthenic rituals made them Bulletproof according to the book Chinese women in a century of Revolution 1850-1950 by kazuko Ono and Catherine Bernhardt the boxes were occasionally joined in battle by their all-female
Counterparts the Red Lanterns it took an eight-nation Force including troops from America Russia and Japan to quash the violent uprising the King Dynasty which had ruled since the 17th century was weakened by the Rebellion it was overthrown in 1912 ending centuries of Imperial rule in China and
Making way for Mao Zedong and his People’s Republic number seven Yale’s skull and bones is probably the best known Collegiate secret society but for sheer drama and spectacle none can top the University of Virginia’s seven Society no one knows exactly when or how the group formed but it dates back at least
To 1905 when its symbol the numeral surrounded by Alpha Omega and infinity signs first appeared in the school’s yearbook the society’s roster is a closely guarded secret membership is only revealed by a banner at the member’s funeral the group seems to be more Progressive than some Collegiate societies at least
In terms of gender equality while Skull and Bones didn’t vote to allow women into the club until 1991 the identity of the seven societies first known female member was revealed in 1958. the group’s highest profile activities are elaborately presented donations and Gifts according to the University’s Virginia magazine the
School’s 1947 commencement address was interrupted when a check for 177 777.77 floated to the ground When the Smoke cleared after a small explosion in 2008 a 14 777.77 contribution was delivered by a skydiver carrying a large seven flag if you want to contact the seven Society
You’ll have to get into the spirit of their famously clandestine activities the group only accepts correspondence in the form of a letter deposited at the Thomas Jefferson statue in the school’s Rotunda number six the Thor Society was founded in 1918 by Walter nowhouse a former German Soldier who’d been discharged after being
Wounded on the Western Front and Rudolf Von sebotendorf a self-styled Aristocrat whose real name was Adam Dower both men shared an interest in the occult but how much the group leaned into the supernatural angle is Up For Debate instead the main tenets of the Thor society which took its name from a
Mythical Aryan Homeland focused on rabid anti-Semitism and violent right-wing nationalism ultimately the Thor Society was short-lived now house was executed for conspiring against the Bavarian government and sebotomdorf’s influence never recovered after members of the society suspected him of leaking now house’s name to authorities along with the names of six other executed co-conspirators
According to British historian Nicholas goodrick Clark’s 1993 book The Occult roots of Nazism the Thor Society was dissolved around 1925 when support had dwindled much has been made of the thull’s connections to the Nazi party and several members did go on to play key roles in the German Workers Party
Which Hitler would reorganize into the Nazis sebotandorf himself was all too eager to write about the relationship between his society and the Nazis in his memoirs but according to the online magazine Eon the idea that the full Society was in essence a fatal form of the Nazi party is a product of sebotendorf’s
Megalomaniacal imagination number five some secret societies are so effective that they’ve changed history without going to the trouble of actually existing according to three foundational texts that appeared in the 17th century the order of the rosy cross was founded by a German physician named Christian rosencruits around the turn of the 15th century
Rosenkroits had supposedly acquired ancient mystical knowledge during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and formed the Secret order upon his return to Europe to say that the manifestos were bizarre would be something of an understatement the third installment titled the chimacal wedding of Christian rosencruits the first science fiction novel but the manifestos were taken
Seriously and they inspired what’s become known as the rosicrucian enlightenment according to British scholar Dame Francis Yates the texts contained the synthesis of religious mystical and scientific thinking that inspired a new worldview the myth of the rosicrucian order would later be incorporated into other secret societies including the Freemasons and
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn number four members of an animalistic cult known as the leopard Society were allegedly responsible for a series of ghastly killings in Western central Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries in the 2014s specifically the society was blamed for a rash of murders in
Eastern Congo resulting in several suspected members being executed by Colonial authorities then in the 40s more than 200 deaths were attributed to the cult in Nigeria leading to the execution of 77 suspects little is known about the leopard society and it’s often difficult to separate factual accounts of its
Activities from misconceptions born of racism and Colonial fears dressed in leopard skins and armed with metal claws the group’s adherence supposedly attacked mutilated and ate their victims out of a belief that consuming human flesh and blood would imbue them with Supernatural strength but according to Dr Vicky van boekhaven
Of Ghent University and the Royal Museum for central Africa the murders might have had more to do with maintaining local power relations performing indigenous Justice in secret and circumventing colonial government control number three island has a long history of agrarian secret societies including the Defenders the white boys the people day boys and
The ribbon man the Molly MaGuire’s originally emerged in Ireland in the 1840s where they lashed out at landowners who treated their tenants unfairly the group’s members were known for hiding their identities by wearing women’s clothing and smudging their faces with burnt cork decades later an American offshoot in Pennsylvania was composed mostly of
Irish Catholic miners who were exploited by mining companies partly to protest awful working conditions and predatory Employment Practices and partly to resist being drafted into the Union Army during the Civil War the American mollies allegedly struck out at their employers assassinating 24 foremen and supervisors throughout the 1860s and 705.
But it was their labor organizing activity that ultimately proved their downfall when their efforts threatened the profits of the reading railroad the company’s president sent a Pinkett and detective to infiltrate the group after a two and a half year investigation that same Railroad President served as Chief prosecutor in
A series of trials that sent 20 men to The Gallows according to historian Kevin Kenny the trials were outrageously unfair most of the prosecutors were railroad or Mining Company employees there were no Irish Catholics on the jury and evidence presented by the Pinkerton detective was suspect at best
John Jay Keo the alleged King of the mollies finally received a full pardon from Pennsylvania’s Governor 101 years after Keo was hanged in December 1878. number two most of what we know about the African-American Mysteries also known as the order of the men of Oppression comes from an 1887 Detroit
Tribune interview with the group’s founder William Lambert he was a successful black business owner in Detroit and a tireless advocate for black suffrage abolitionist causes and public education for black children as the co-founder of the colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit Lambert helped more than 1500 Freedom seeking people escape their enslavers via the
Underground Railroad but the African-American Mysteries was a far more secretive operation to protect themselves members were taught special passwords and hand signals and only two white members were reportedly ever allowed in according to sociologist Catherine Duprey Lumpkin the society operated for at least 10 years and it’s mostly black members were initiated by
Elaborate ritual and some became conductors on the Underground Railroad membership was organized into ranks with titles such as Chevalier of Ethiopia and Knight of saint Domingo Lambert estimated the group’s membership at nearly 1 million free black men and women with 60 000 achieving its highest rank according to
Lambert the group helped as many as 1600 enslaved people reach Canada in one year with as many as five Crossing into the country per day number one most secret societies have a flare for drama but the black hand was exactly as Sinister as it sounds formerly known as unification or death
The black hand was founded in 1911 by Serbian Military Officers according to the Washington Post the group’s aim was unifying South Slavs including bosnians slovenes and croats in Austria-Hungary into a greater Serb or South Slavic Yugoslav state if there were any doubts about whether the black hand meant to use violence to achieve
That end the group quelled them with its logo a skull a bomb a knife and a vial of poison members swore unquestioning fealty to the organization and promised to take its secrets to the Grave the group was headquartered in Belgrade where a Central Committee oversaw the activities of small three to five member
Cells the black hand has been implicated in Terrorist activities and political murders but its most consequential action was facilitating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife an event that helped start World War One the black hand supplied the archduke’s Assassins with bombs pistols and cyanide capsules and helped them smuggle the
Weapons across the border from Serbia to Bosnia Herzegovina where the attack took place there are conflicting theories about why the black hand wanted to kill the Archduke or if it really wanted to kill him at all some believe the Serbian group saw austria-hungary’s 1908 annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina as an obstacle to its
Goal of a unified Serbian state others suspect the organization wanted to destabilize its own government the leader of the black hand a Serbian Colonel named Dragon Dimitri davich nicknamed apus had already butted heads with Serbian prime minister Nicola pasik over how best to achieve unification and maybe dimitrisovic hoped the
Assassination would bring enough International heat down on pasig that he’d be removed from Power there’s even a popular theory that dimitrisovic didn’t expect the inexperienced young assassins to actually carry out the deed but hope the shore to be botched attempt would be enough to get pasig tossed out
Pasigrid himself of Dimitris for good in 1917 when the Black Hand leader along with two other high-ranking members was executed for treason the black hand never regained its power
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