Download or read book Ritual of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows written by Joseph C. Bustill and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Official History and Manual of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America written by Charles H. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ritual of the Grand United Order Of Oddfellows written by Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revised Odd fellowship Illustrated written by Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ritual of the South Australian Grand United Order of Oddfellows to be Observed by All the Lodges in the Order written by South Australian Grand United Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ritual of the Household of Ruth Grand United Order of Odd Fellows written by Household of Ruth and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Odd Fellows Manual written by Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento and published by Louie Sarmiento. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim is to create a 21st century reference book of the basic essentials of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. This book hopes to acquaint the candidates and members with its origin and history, philosophy and purposes, degrees, teachings, symbols, regalia, jewels of office and organizational structure. But this does not aim to teach the rituals itself or any of its signs and passwords. This does not also aim to supplant the Code of General Laws but only to highlight some of the generally accepted rules within the IOOF. Evolving from the traditions of the English craft guilds and journeymen associations nearly 300 years ago, the name Odd Fellows refers to a number of fraternal orders , friendly societies and service organizations existing in more than 30 countries today. Our branch, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), was established by Thomas Wildey and four members from England on April 26, 1819 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The IOOF received its charter from its parent organization, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity. The IOOF is also known as the "Three Link Fraternity", referring to its "Triple Link Chain" symbol which represents its motto: "Friendship, Love and Truth." Irrefutably, membership education is an important prerequisite for a successful and growing non-profit organization. But a survey study conducted in 2012 and participated by exactly 2,120 members from all over North America, Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia showed that Odd Fellowship lacked the needed modern literature to educate and mentor its members. The last manual and guide about the IOOF was published more than 100 years ago. With modern technology, access to historical documents has also become easier. A lot of new evidence is coming to light, which calls for a need to re-visit and re-write the origins and history of Odd Fellowship. This means that most of the manuals published many years ago have become outdated. This book is an attempt to fill that gap.

Download or read book As Above So Below written by Lynne Adele and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations—high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting—which deep down must also have been a whole lot of fun. Now it’s as if that foundational Other America, that underpinning of the America we know, has gradually eroded, and here we remain, living in a world that is a mere shell, a movie set, of the world that made our world manifest, that brought it into being, and all we have left are these perplexing masks, banners, and costumes to puzzle over.” —David Byrne, from the foreword Featuring more than two hundred outstanding objects gathered from private and public collections, As Above, So Below provides the first comprehensive survey of the rich vein of art created during the “golden age” of the American fraternal society. By the turn of the twentieth century, an estimated 70,000 local lodges affiliated with hundreds of distinct American fraternal societies claimed a combined five and a half million members. It has been estimated that at least 20 percent of the American adult male population belonged to one or more fraternal orders, including the two largest groups, the Freemasons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The esoteric knowledge, visual symbols, and moral teachings revealed to lodge brothers during secret rituals inspired an abundant and expressive body of objects that form an important facet of American folk art. Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb introduce the reader to fraternal societies and explore the function and meaning of fraternal objects, including paintings and banners, costumes and ceremonial regalia, ritual objects, and an array of idiosyncratic objects that represent a grassroots response to fraternalism. Setting the art in historical context, the authors examine how fraternal societies contributed to American visual culture during this era of burgeoning fraternal activity. Simultaneously entertaining and respectful of the fraternal tradition, As Above, So Below opens lodge room doors and invites the reader to explore the compelling and often misunderstood works from the golden age of fraternity, once largely forgotten and now coveted by collectors.

Download or read book Handbook of Secret Organizations written by William Joseph Whalen and published by Milwaukee : Bruce Publishing Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the history, tenets and rituals of over fifty organizations including Knights of Columbus, Freemasons, Ku Klux Klan, Cosa Nostra, etc.

Download or read book What a Mighty Power We Can Be written by Theda Skocpol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled churches as centers of black community life in cities, towns, and rural areas alike. Using an unprecedented variety of secondary and primary sources--including old documents, pictures, and ribbon-badges found in eBay auctions--this book tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations. The authors demonstrate how African American fraternal groups played key roles in the struggle for civil rights and racial integration. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, white legislatures passed laws to outlaw the use of important fraternal names and symbols by blacks. But blacks successfully fought back. Employing lawyers who in some cases went on to work for the NAACP, black fraternalists took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in their favor. At the height of the modern Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, they marched on Washington and supported the lawsuits through lobbying and demonstrations that finally led to legal equality. This unique book reveals a little-known chapter in the story of civic democracy and racial equality in America.

Download or read book History of American Odd Fellowship written by James Lot Ridgely and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revised Odd Fellowship Illustrated written by Jonathan Blanchard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the teachings and practices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. With its complete revised ritual of the Lodge, Encampment, and Rebekah Degrees, it provides a thorough and authoritative overview of this venerable fraternal organization. Richly illustrated with informative diagrams and charts, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the history and inner workings of the Odd Fellows. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Ritual of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows written by Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ritual America written by Craig Heimbichner and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adam Parfrey is one of the nation's most provocative publishers."—Seattle Weekly "Secret society historian Craig Heimbichner follows the Middle Path to wisdom. He works the graveyard shift in the secret lodge."—Joan d'Arc, Paranoia magazine Secret societies—now a staple of bestseller novels—are pictured as sinister cults that use hooded albinos to menace truth-seekers. Some conspiracy books claim that fraternal orders are the work of serpentine aliens and interbred humans who wish to supplant earth of its energy, and later, its very existence. On the other side of the aisle, books by high-ranked Freemasons—skeptical in tone but no less partisan in approach—protect their organization's public image by denying the existence of its most contentious ideas. Ritual America reveals the biggest secret of them all: that the influence of fraternal brotherhoods on this country is vast, fundamental, and hidden in plain view. In the early twentieth century, as many as one-third of America belonged to a secret society. And though fezzes and tiny car parades are almost a thing of the past, the Gnostic beliefs of Masonic orders are now so much a part of the American mind that the surrounding pomp and circumstance has become faintly unnecessary. The authors of Ritual America contextualize hundreds of rare and many never-before printed images with entertaining and far-reaching commentary, making an esoteric subject provocative, exciting, and approachable. Adam Parfrey is the author of Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind and It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps. He is editor of the influential Apocalypse Culture series Love, Sex, Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Craig Heimbichner has recently appeared on a National Geographic documentary about the Bohemian Grove, contributed to the Feral House compilation Secret and Suppressed II, and wrote about the famous occult order the O.T.O. in Blood and Altar.

Download or read book Ancient Rites of Odd Fellowship written by Louie Blake Sarmiento and published by Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd Fellowship is one of the oldest fraternal societies in the world. Recently, its obscure history and rites have been subject of inquiry and discussion by members, researchers, scholars and historians alike. However, many of these people complain that access to historical documents related to this historic organization is very limited if not almost impossible. Admittedly, modern literature on the topic of Odd Fellowship is very scarce and the old records of this fraternal society are not well-preserved. This book, Ancient Rites of Odd Fellowship: Revisiting the Revised Ritual of the Order of Patriotic Odd Fellows, 1797, is published for preservation and educational purposes for the benefit of the members, scholars researchers and historians who want to gain knowledge about the origins, history and ancient rites of Odd Fellowship. The rituals in this book are already considered ancient and no longer practiced by existing Odd Fellows' organizations today.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Foreword HISTORY AND ORIGINOPENING CEREMONYINITIATION CEREMONYWHITE DEGREEROYAL BLUE DEGREEPINK OR MERIT DEGREEROYAL ARCH OF TITUS DEGREEMERGER AND FURTHER SCHISMSBibliographyFootnotesTARGET PUBLICATION DATE: September 2020ISBN: 978-1-7338512-3-7