Almoner brings together three complementary collections:
- The Library — 1704 esoteric, occult and Masonic works (PDF) across 31 subjects, free to read online or download.
- The Ritual Archive — 1067 ritual texts spanning 399 Masonic and fraternal orders, in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, fully readable on-site.
- The Encyclopedia of Orders — 514 profiles of Masonic and fraternal organizations and Greek-letter societies, cross-linked to their rituals.
Credits
almoner.net is created and curated by Victor Stainmann, who brought these collections together into a single platform for the Craft — the work of gathering, organising and presenting this material here is his.
Use & Rights
These texts are made available to members for private study, research and education. Many are historical or public-domain works; where any material remains under copyright, all rights stay with the original authors and publishers.
If you are a rights-holder and would like an item removed or corrected, please get in touch and it will be handled promptly.
How it works
Almoner is a lightweight PHP application that needs no database — the catalog is a generated JSON index, and every book and ritual is stored locally with the site. That makes the whole archive portable: copy the folder to any PHP host and it runs.
Catalog generated 2026-06-10 01:09 · 1704 books · 1067 rituals.