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Shadows and Oaths – Volume 1
The Complete History of Secret Societies, Brotherhoods, and Hidden Orders: Volume 1. ANCIENT SHADOWS (Prehistory – 1500 CE)
The oldest secrets in recorded history. “SHADOWS AND OATHS” opens the Hidden Hand trilogy with the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Pythagorean Brotherhood, the Assassins of Alamut, and the Knights Templar — alongside traditions rarely covered in Western histories: the Poro and Sande societies of West Africa, the Sufi brotherhoods, and the Arioi of Polynesia. Twenty chapters. Ten thousand years of hidden history. Prehistory to 1500 CE.
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Shadows and Oaths – Volume 2
The Complete History of Secret Societies, Brotherhoods, and Hidden Orders: Volume 2. THE AGE OF LODGES (1500 – 1900 CE )
The Illuminati were real. So were the Freemasons, the Carbonari, the Decembrists, and the revolutionary brotherhoods that tore apart empires. THE AGE OF LODGES — Volume II of SHADOWS AND OATHS — follows the history of secret societies from the Rosicrucian manifestos of 1614 to the threshold of the modern world in 1900 CE. Twenty-two chapters. The lodges that remade the map.
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Shadows and Oaths – Volume 3
The Complete History of Secret Societies, Brotherhoods, and Hidden Orders: Volume 3. THE MODERN UNDERGROUND (1900 CE – The Modern Era)
The Ku Klux Klan. The P2 Lodge. The Yakuza. Skull and Bones. Opus Dei. The Broederbond that engineered apartheid. THE MODERN UNDERGROUND — Volume III of SHADOWS AND OATHS — covers the secret organizations that operated in the shadows of the twentieth century, from Japan’s ultranationalist Dark Ocean Society to the question of whether secret brotherhoods can survive the digital age.
