About the book: 2024 / The book of the English professor Charles William Heckerton "Secret Societies of All Ages and All Countries" - a fundamental study of religious, political and other secret societies that existed in different parts of our planet at different times and at the time of writing the book known to the author. It was published in 1875 and is considered the basic classic work on this topic. In the book you can find interesting materials about the Templars and Assassins, Guelphs and Carbonari, Manichaeans and Freemasons, about Italian orders and sects of minor importance, about the practices of adherents of the terrible cult of the goddess Kali, who gathered into secret and not-so-secret orders, and much more. Now, as at the time when Charles Heckerthorn wrote his work, humanity continues to seek answers to the questions: “Where are they, the hidden levers of controlling the world? Where are the great and mysterious puppeteers who, invisible to us, pull the strings of the world and control it? This is largely due to the fact that it is normal for a person to want to collect knowledge into a system, into a general body - for the same ease of use. Over the course of a century and a half, knowledge about the world has expanded, information about secret societies, orders, sects and clubs has become much more, but the book by Charles William Heckerthorn remains relevant to this day. The publishing layout has been preserved.