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Originally Posted by newmusic11
That's not my only interest that I am looking for. I saw that Beta Theta Pi has roots with the Mystic Seven Society, which I didn't know any fraternities had roots such as that.
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The Mystical 7 was a 19th Century collegiate fraternity that merged with Beta. Read about them
here. (It's a great read for anyone interested in fraternity history.)
While the Mystical 7 were certainly colorful and different (in terms of symbolism and terminology) from Greek letter fraternities, the fact that Beta's history includes the Mystical 7 doesn't really distinguish Beta that much from other fraternities in the "mystic" sense. All of the fraternities you listed have secret rituals and, I would think, a sense of the mystical in those rituals.