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Originally posted by SurfinDBeach
Just a question - how much do you know about your organization?
How much do you know about your organization and its connection to the FreeMasons?
I know it may be somewhat of a "touchy" question, but hey, it's a legitimate one...
Some people know their society's openness with their connections and/or history with the Freemasons (founders, etc), but some people have no idea...
Can anyone list the only college fraternties listed as Masonic Societies (does not include every organization that had a founder or two who were Masons)? I know which ones, but do you?
This type of thing is very interesting...
And if you know for sure yours is not in some way connected to the Freemasons, if you are at liberty, then what?
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APO's Founder, Frank Reed Horton, was a Mason. There is nothing secret about it. He wrote our original ritual. How much it takes from Masonic ones, I don't know. The Founders decided that APO would not be a 'secret organization', in the sense that our rituals would not reveal secret or estoteric things.
I'm not aware of anything in our organization doing a study of our rituals (they have changed over the years) and comparing them to Masonic ones (tho this is something I proposed).
I'm also a member of the Order of the Arrow. While the primary founders were not Masons, they were inspired by the concepts of fraternialism, college fraternities, and church youth fraternal groups. The person they asked to create the initial ritual was a mason, however. In the OA, there are some who have made a detailed stuff of our rituals and compared them to masonic ones and found some similiarities.
Hope this helps