Secret societies from magicians to masons

Here is the history of the “backstage forces” and “unspoken rulers” of humanity - from ancient magicians and druids, Kabbalists and Albigenses, Assassins and Carbonari to the Freemasons and other secret societies that aimed at reorganizing the world... The work of the 19th century British historian Charles Heckerthorn became a sensation of the whole century. The author not only created a detailed catalog of “secret forces” over several millennia of our civilization, but also described in detail the goals, objectives and structure of religious, military, judicial, scientific and political secret societies - right down to the sacraments and initiation rites. Heckerthorn's amazing awareness delighted his contemporaries, and his book influenced many historians and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries - including Dan Brown with his "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons." In Russia, Charles Heckerthorn's book was published at the end of the 19th century. After the revolution it was banned.