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Secret Societies: a very short history

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Procession of Freemasons

Freemasons

Monita secreta Societatis Jesu

Jesuits

Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens

Illuminati

Initiation of a carbonaro

Carbonari

The execution of C.L.Sand

Burschenschaften

Gioacchino Prati

Grand Firmament

Death mask of Auguste Blanqui

France

The German Parliament in session, 1848

Germany

Russian narodniki, 1877

Russia

A Ku Klux Klan March, 1924

United States

Cotton certificate, ca 1883

Asia

Pythagoras addresses his pupils

Precursors

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