The Trail of the Serpent

1936. An account of investigations into various individual secret societies, their occult practices, pseudo-religious and political activities with the intent of proving that the aim of the higher grades of these varied mysteries and cults is to awakenthe serpent , the sex-force or God within. Contents: Sabeism. Eleusis and Mithras; Cabalists, Gnostics, and Secret Syrian Sects; Rosicrucians and Illumines; Weishaupt's Illuminati and the French Revolution; Carbonari, Mazzini, l'Alliance-israelite-universelle and Karl Marx; The Jewish Question; Continental Freemasonry; Theosophy and India. Co-masonry; Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy; Fraternity of Inner Light and Yoga; Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn; American Groups; Secret Societies in America, Tibet and China; and The Synarchy of Agarttha.