[15278] in APO-L
Re: As an Eagle must fly, so must we.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (High Lord of Chaos)
Wed Nov 6 12:52:19 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:48:28 -0800
Reply-To: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
From: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199611051640.IAA11133@spam.ecst.csuchico.edu> from "Ellen
Kranzer" at Nov 5, 96 11:39:59 am
> >Actually Initiation rituals all tend to follow a similar formula. So I
> >would not necessarily say that our Initiation ritual is derived from the
> >Ordeal Ceremony of the OA.
> Are you sure it's not the other way around? That the current OA ritual is
> based on the APO ritual.
> I've been told that there was a major re-write of the OA ceremonies done in
> the 60s by a group of APO brothers and that they based the OA ceremonies on
> the APO ritual. Anybody know anything about the history of the OA ritual
> for real. What I know is basically 'chapter lore' (brothers from my home
> chapter were involved in the OA rewrite). How old is the OA anyhow? Does
> it date to the beginnings of the BSA or did it come later?
Actually both ours and OA's were rewritten at the same time just a few
years ago, and I remember hearing by the same group, so that explains the
similarities.
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