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[2022]
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"If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established...
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[2015]
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"Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he's determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world's survival. Eager to prove he's got what it takes, Ronan is sent on his first mission with his friends Greta and Sammy to visit a weird-sounding school and take a series of tests called the Glass Gauntlet. Paper and...
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"The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six-guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed...
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In this suspenseful Arcane Society novel, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delves into the underworld of passion, greed, and powers that lie beyond this realm.
Victorian botanist Lucinda Bromley has a rare talent: the ability to detect almost any type of poison. She also tends many rare plants, including a species of fern that was stolen from her conservatory just last month-and which turns up in a poison that was used in a nobleman's...
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"Two gifted people fall deep into the dark world of ancient secrets in this second installment of the new chilling Fogg Lake series by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. North Chastain has always had the mysterious ability to channel energy through crystals. He and his father both have the ability, which is what the doctors believe is the cause of his father's sudden coma. But North knows that isn't the case. He's convinced it was...
47) The mapmakers
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[2022]
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Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war, but danger is lurking around every corner, and she must convince the rival Maker families to work together for once--not only to bring her father home, but also to save the very essence of magic itself.
49) The Young Elites
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[2014]
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"Adelina Amouteru survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural powers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities"--
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First published in 1923, "The Lost Keys of Freemasonry" or "The Legend of Hiram Abiff," by Manly P. Hall is an illuminating and informative explanation of Freemasonry symbolism and ritual. Hall was born in 1901 in Ontario, Canada and moved to California in 1919 and was immediately drawn into studying Christian mysticism, esoteric arts, world religions, and Greek philosophers. He began publishing numerous books on Freemasonry and mysticism in the 1920's...
52) Faceless
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Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
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En "El libro negro de los Illuminati", el autor analiza en profundidad a los Illuminati modernos, desvelando hasta dónde están dispuestos a llegar para traer su Nuevo Orden Mundial. El libro contesta preguntas como las siguientes:
• ¿Existe una fuerza negativa que controla a los Illuminati?
• ¿Está en Europa su centro neurálgico?
• ¿Qué poder tiene la sociedad de Skull&Bones en China?
• ¿Existe relación entre los fundadores del...
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The fraternal society of the Masonic Order, steeped in mystery for over 600 years, is brought to light in a fascinating volume that serves as a guide for neophytes as well as a reference for the initiated. Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry reveals the spiritual paths taken by inductees as they move through each initiated degree of enlightmentment: Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and the Royal Arch. The Freemasons' rituals, arcane symbols...
56) Look to the East
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"Look to the East: A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Freemasonry" by Ralph P. Lester is the classic and easy to understand guide for every Mason. It details in simple and plain language the rituals of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master-Mason's degrees and the general procedures followed by most lodges when they hold their regular meetings. While this time-honored guide is a helpful reference for both new and experienced Masons,...
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Sketching out a fascinating network of historic figures, cults, and Christendom, this book by an occult-studies expert and respected authority on magic and sorcery takes Western spiritual traditions seriously-but examines them with common sense and self-effacing humor. Working backward from the Freemasons to one of their original orders, the 14th-century Knights Templar, the account considers sorcery, heresy, and intrigues; explores the legend that...
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This early work by Arthur Edward Waite was originally published in the early 20th Century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism' is one of Waite's writings on secret societies. Arthur Edward Waite was born on the 2nd of October, 1857 in America. After the death of his father, Waite and his mother returned to her native England, where he was raised in North London, attending...
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First published in 1866, by Malcolm C. Duncan, "Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry" provides a fascinating glimpse into the rights and rituals of this secretive organization. Duncan did not write this guide to shine light on Masonry for outsiders, but rather to help new members navigate the complex organization. As he states in the Preface: "The purpose of this work is not so much to gratify the curiosity of the uninitiated as to furnish a guide for the...
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Gran desconocida de la historia, la masonería ha suscitado y suscita inquietud, reservas y oposición. Desde los constructores de catedrales hasta los masones contemporáneos defensores de la fraternidad universal, la masonería, sociedad iniciática y secreta, ha tenido serios problemas sociales, políticos y religiosos. Este estudio analiza, en una primera parte, las causas y consecuencias del enfrentamiento entre la Iglesia católica y la masonería...
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