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As stated in the previous posts, it's up to the individual fraternity or sorority to determine the level of secrecy attached to their meanings and ideals.
In Freemasonry, for example, each individual Grand Lodge has its own interpretation of the ritual of the three degrees. What one Grand Lodge may consider esoteric and only transmitted 'mouth to ear' another Grand Lodge may have it printed word for word in their monitor of ceremonies.
However, many people forget a principal tenet of their fraternal obligations: the business of the chapter and the confidences of a brother or sister should be held as private and inviolate as the meanings behind the organization and means of recognition. Likewise, the sanctity of the ballot box. Who gets elected or who gets blackballed (or cubed) is no one's business but the chapter's.
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Causa latet vis est notissima - the cause is hidden, the results are well known.
Alpha Alpha (University of Oklahoma) Chapter, #814, 1984
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