Secret Societies and Documents

Engraving from Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum (“The Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross”), 1618, an early manuscript on the esoteric order of Rosicrucianism by Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, a likely pseudonym of the alchemist, physician, and astronomer Daniel Mögling

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Spread found in the book Les Plus Secrets Mystères des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie Dévoilés (The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Ranks of Masonry Revealed) by Karl Friedrich Koppen, 1768. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind

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Diagrams from declassified CIA document on The Gateway Process. The program studied different techniques that could be used for humans to detach their brain waves from time and space, and use them to affect physical reality. Source: CIA.gov

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A Supreme Council 33 bookplate found in a book about Hermeticism. This secret society is the first Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. Their full name is “The Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America”. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind.

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