enoch a scris:[/u]1054927528']GROTTO? SHRINE? Cedars of Lebanon? Amaranth? Shiita? Sunita? Wahabita? Independent Order of Rechabites?
Ancient Essenic Order ? Dramatic Order, Knights of Khorassan? Ancient Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bagdad ?
Ore mai sunt si altele?
Order of the Amaranth is a Masonic-affiliated women's organization founded in 1873. As in the Order of the Eastern Star, members of the Order must be age 18 and older; men must be Master Masons; and women must have specific relationships with Masons, including wives, mothers, daughters, widows, sisters, nieces, aunts, and others, or have been active members of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls or Job's Daughters International for more than 3 years and come recommended by a Master Mason.
Amaranth was based on Queen Christina of Sweden's court. Christina had created the "Order of the Amarantha" for the ladies and knights of her court. In 1860, James B. Taylor of Newark, New Jersey drew upon this order to create a new fraternal society. In 1873, Rob Macoy organized Taylor's society into the Order of the Amaranth, part of a proposed Adoptive Rite of Masonry. Eastern Star was to be the first degree, and until 1921, Amaranth members were required to join Eastern Star first.[1]
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This is the story of an organization that is as American as apple pie-despite its name! So don't let the name mislead you! Certainly not what's implied in this case;
ANCIENT ARABIC ORDER NOBLES of the MYSTIC SHRINE!
The major resemblance-if any-of the Mystic Shrine of North America to any possible or near-proto-type existing in the Middle East from ancient times is in the selection of the names for its Temples; in its glamorous pageantry; in its colorful ceremonial and parade costumes and trappings; and in its return to early history for its ritualistic lessons.
We know that the co-founders of the Mystic Shrine of North America were great showmen, actor BILLY FLORENCE and Dr. WALTER M. FLEMING. These two Masons did most of the preliminary work in founding our SHRINE ORDER. Dr. FLEMING came up with idea of an organization to which only Masons who had completed their Scottish Rite or York Rite work would be eligible to join. He desired that it would be both impressive and amusing - something in which good fellowship would abound. Actor FLORENCE came up with the vehicle to create this playground for Masons after viewing a musical comedy at party given by an Arabian diplomat. In August of 1870 they put together a ritual and concocted the name:
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Lodge of the Grotto
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"The way I heard this Blood Talon tell it, there used to be people who thought that the earth was made out of a giant corpse. The gods came down from the heavens, and all the animals, even humans, wriggled their way out of the corpse like so many worms."
Lodge members are unfortunately real boogey-men to the Uratha. They are a splinter group driven underground that has since adapted to their new lot. Their homes range from limestone caves, long-unused sewers, and forgotten tunnels under run-down cities. Most werewolves prefer to think that the Burrowers aren't real.
Each pack of Burrowers has almost no contact with other packs, developing as a synchronous lodge; they adapt to life underground in a parallel fashion. Packs can be driven underground for myriad reasons, and some warrens may have once been Pure. Their warrens are most often hereditary, and only their loyalty to each other keeps them (barely) from becoming one of the Broken Souls, the Zi'ir.
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Others, such as the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order (founded in and confined largely to Washington), were local groups that never got beyond a handful of lodges. The importance of these organizations, especially Masonry, as social institutions might be better appreciated when we realize that in the early 1900s nearly one of every four white males in America over the age of 25 was a member of the Masons.
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The Independent Order of Rechabites was a Friendly Society founded in England in 1835 as part of the temperance movement to promote total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Always well connected in upper society and involved in financial matters, it gradually transformed into a financial institution which still exists, and still promotes abstinence. A branch was established in the United States in 1842, and the Order was active in Australia in the nineteenth century in promoting temperance and as a benefit society.
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Pythians are eligible for membership in the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan (DOKK). We have three recognized auxiliaries: The Pythian Sisters, The Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan (DOKK) and the Junior Order Knights of Pythias. The Pythian Order was founded by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, D.C. on February 19, 1864.
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The Ancient Mystic Order of the Bagmen of Bagdad (AMOBB) was founded in 1895 in Ohio as the
