Secret societies – the secret (or often just closed for not dealing with) the organization, usually a mystical direction, putting ppred a goal of gaining control over a particular area of activity of the country or world.
What is the secret society?
According to wikipedia: The Secret Society – an organization that requires its members to conceal certain activities (such as rites of initiation) from strangers. Members may be required to hide or deny their membership, and often swear to keep secret society sworn. The term “secret society” is often used to describe fraternal organizations (eg Freemasonry) that may have secret ceremonies, but usually can be applied to organizations ranging from common and harmless (college fraternity) and the mythical organizations described in conspiracy theories as very powerful companies with vested financial or political agendas, global reach, and sometimes satanic beliefs.

This definition is sometimes not entirely accurate, these organizations want to hide certain course of action or their membership, but rather a means than the target goal of the secret societies are no different, some try to reach a secret knowledge, gaining control over the energy, magic, one goal of all secret societies are the same achieving control of the state or the world, and to achieve this goal of a society may well collaborate with each other, oddly enough but the majority of secret societies, although there seems to be and should be competitive, however, cooperate with each other.
Modern secret societies is a mix of corporations and worship, to become a member of the secret societies rather simple, pay a fee and forward, such a member of a secret society will hardly be able to access the secret knowledge.

Members of secret societies can be divided into groups (the definition is not accurate and is presented simply for exemplary understanding of the structure, and can not be applied to all secret societies, a term member of the secret society is not authentic and provided only as illustration.)

A rank and file members – those who simply paid the fee to be called a member of a secret society, most often these are people who choose simply to lose, and they hardly give access to secret knowledge

2 invitations – those members of the public generally are invited to a secret organization sometimes “invited” themselves take the initiative to join a secret organization, “Invited” – always the people with power or the necessary information (knowledge), such member societies usually the main force of the organization, they show only the part of the knowledge they need to know for a mock execution of his duties.

3 public leaders – sometimes called the Masters, most often it is the managing organization of no more than that, of course, masters have the power and can actually manage the members of his organization, which is more businessmen, organizers or administrators, Master usually has some access to knowledge but tend to not significant.

4 Secret Head – Most large businesses are major sponsors and leaders of secret societies, often or not at all interested in mysticism, using secret knowledge to which access for their own enrichment.

5 A true leader – sometimes Mystic Magician, who has access to all knowledge of a secret society that knows only the top management has a true leader including a number of supernatural abilities (from the viewpoint of ordinary people) A true leader is contacted directly with the higher forces and world domination for him just a tool to achieve other goals that neznayu none or almost none of his subordinates.

Below are some examples of modern mystical secret societies:
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Protocols describing the plans and principles of a secret organization, planned the overthrow of the monarchy, the world wars, etc. Despite some credence to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are officially a fake, sometimes called the author of the forgery is hard to imagine a different response organizations whose secret plans were made public, of course you need to change plans and to discredit the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Priory of Sion – According to the official history of the “Priory of Sion, set out in the” Secret File “, this secret society was founded by Gottfried Bouillon to the Holy Land in 1090. After the capture by the Crusaders in Jerusalem in 1099 by order of Gottfried here was begun construction of the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion. It was erected on the ruins of an ancient Byzantine church, which was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, near the Zion Gate. In this monastery nestled Order Augustinian monks who acted as advisers to Gottfried. They are, according to archives of the Priory of Sion, were involved in the creation in 1118 of the Knights Templar, who served the military and administrative tool for the Priory. Some experts argue (and probably rightly) that most of the “Protocols Priory of Sion” hoax.
Review of Secret Societies
Freemasons – Brotherhood Freemasons, from the very moment of its appearance, was covered with a thick layer of legends. According to the most common of them, the emergence of Freemasonry dates back to the days of King Solomon, who instructed tinsmith (architect) from Tyre, Hiram Abiff (sometimes identified with the chief tax collector Solomon – Adononiramom) Managing and directing construction of the temple in Jerusalem. This architect of the workers were divided into three classes, a kind of corporation, but in order to be able to recognize each other, were established words, signs and touch. Hence, according to the Masons, is to establish degrees of Masonry and a special symbolic language brother Masons. We stand to add: the legend of Hiram Abiff (Adononirame), which often use the Masons, not in the Bible. She was taken from Jewish tradition and gives one of the main sources of mythology “Freemasons”. The main “Wake up,” Mason was not so long ago, and modern Freemasonry is certainly not very old.
The Templars – The Order of the Temple, the Order of the Temple of Solomon (Latin Templique Solomonici) or mendicant Knights of Christ, the first of the founding of the religious military orders, was founded in 1119 by a small group of knights led by Hugh de Payne after the First Crusade to support the new Kingdom of Jerusalem in the hostile environment of the defeated Muslim neighbors, as well as to protect a number of European pilgrims who went to Jerusalem after its conquest. It should, of course, distinguish between the real basis of the Order and the beginning of its activities on the one hand and the official recognition of the pope on the other. originally conceived as a knightly order to protect the pilgrims, soon became very rich and very rich Order of Europe, the modern system of bank transfers have come up with exactly the Templars, anyone could transfer money Templars in Jerusalem and received in return “receipt” to exchange it at home for money (less commissions Templar), the financial success of the Knights Templar did not prevent them from moving into the path of knowledge, one of the legends of the Templars is nashili “holy grail” in many churches of the Templars were evidence that the Templars did not agree with the official church and had their Christian doctrine different from the official church, because no resignation and the potential threat of the Order of the Knights Templar was destroyed. The modern Order of Knights Templar hardly has all the expertise of its founders.
Rosicrucians – The Order of the Rose and Cross, Order of the alchemical secret, known for his knowledge of a secret order who now plays no apparent significant role in the global order, but who knows.

There are still hundreds of times smaller secret societies, to describe all probably makes no sense.