The book includes works on the history of mystical societies and orders - Templars, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, anarcho-mystics that existed in the 20-30s. of our century in Soviet Russia. Based on the materials of the investigative cases of the OGPU-NKVD and his own investigations, the author considers the personal composition of organizations, teachings and programs, symbols and rituals, as well as the historical ties of mystics of the 20th century with gnostics and knightly orders of the Middle Ages. Texts of order legends, investigative documents and little-known materials on this topic are published.