Boy Scouts and Freemasons

Following Arrows: Boy Scouts and Freemasons
Sentinels were organized into Towers and the scheme had three degrees based on four principles:
religious duty, patriotism, sacrifice and work, each with a corresponding Watch, or ritual. For
more info, see Freemasonry, Scouting and the Order of the Arrow.
[3] The Masonic Service of Oklahoma; report to the M. W. Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Mason of the State of Oklahoma :We believe that we, as an organization, should keep in
touch in some way through some organized effort with the boys after they have put on long pants
and after they have graduated from the Boy Scout Movement. There is an organization today known
as the Order of DeMolay which is at this time gaining headway especially in some of our larger
cities. This organization takes the boys after their 16th year and directs their movements, looks after
their interests, and aids in the molding of their character until they become of age. There is one
organization that says,Give me the child until he is 12 years of age, and you can have him the rest
of the time. In other words, if the boys are taken as they are now in the Boy Scout Movement, and
after the boy is 16 years of age, DeMolay continues the work of the Boy Scout Movement, a larger
percent of the boys so trained will become useful and serviceable men in this life(The Builder,
Sept. 1920). From theWisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library: http://www.wls.wels.net/library/
[5]Many theories have been presented concerning the symbolism of the Swastika, its relation to
ancient deities and its representation of certain qualities. In the estimation of certain writers it has
been respectively the emblem of Zeus, of Baal, of the sun, of the sun-god, of the sun-chariot of Agni
the fire-god, of Indra the rain-god, of the sky, the sky-god, and finally the deity of all deities the
great God, the Maker and Ruler of the Universe. It has also been held to symbolize light or the god
of light, of the forked lightning, and of water. It is believed by some to have been the oldest Aryan
symbol. In the estimation of others it represents Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, Creator, Preserver,
Destroyer. Thomas Wilson, Curator, Department of Prehistoric Anthropology, U.S. National
Museum, 1894. This quote is taken from the preface of his book The Swastika, which can be found
in its entirety here: http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/sw/
[6]Scouting teaches that the scout is necessarily a person of distinction, of whom more is expected
than others. The same tendency toward Pharisaism. Like the Blue Lodge of Masonry, Scouting
has three degrees (viz. Star, Life, Eagle). And as Masons may continue to proceed into higher
degrees, so scouts are given merit badges for progress up the ladder of accomplishments until the
degree Eagle Scout is reached. All of which seems to justify the conclusion that the Boy Scout
movement is patterned upon lodging, specifically Freemasonry, and is in its religion, morality,
secretism, organization, oath and symbolism a progymnasium (gimnazium) for secretion,
specifically Freemasonry.(Dr. Theodore Graebner, Y Religion and B. S. Morality quoted by The
Boy Scout Movement in America, Edwin A. Breiling, 1946.) From the Wisconsin Lutheran
Seminary Library: http://www.wls.wels.net/library/
[7] The Inquiry Net, Rick Seymour. Rick has done an amazing job of putting original texts online,
replete with scans, OCR and extensive editing. http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/seton/birc...
[8] ibid. http://www.inquiry.net/ideals/woodcraft_laws....
[9] ibid. http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/seton/birc...

[10] Although many have interpreted the 7 as a square root sign, Ian Fleming supposedly designated
James Bond 007 after seeing the symbol in a biography on Dee.
[11] B-P, another fan of open eyes, was also, among many other things, a spy.
[12] LP Elwell-Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Kibbo Kift Foundation, 1979.

http://www.kibbokift.org/kkkhist.html
[13] ibid.
[14] Hence the claimed Wicca connection. Gardner was supposedly initiated into a coven in the
New Forest in 1939. The use of the word Craft and the fact that Gardnerian Wicca has three degrees
is also worth pondering; it resembles both the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry and Freemasonry.
[15] Liddell, Bill and Howard, MA. The Pickingill Papers. Capall Bann Publishing, Berk, 1994.
[16] A Freemason?
[17] From Young Men, by Charles E. Mitchener and Mark E. Hurs, Encyclopedia of Mormonism,
Macmillan, 1992.
[18] This information about Scouting Honor societies depend entirely upon the work of David L.
Eby. http://www.usscouts.org/usscouts/honorsociety...
[19] Details of the Honor Degree are unknown.
[20] Robert W. Peterson, The Boy Scouts: An American Adventure (New York: American Heritage
Publishing Co., 1984)
[21] All quotes from the rituals come from Rick Seymours transcriptions of these ceremonies on
The Inquiry Net. http://www.inquiry.net/advancement/ceremonies...
[22] B-P and Nature Knowledge, Rick Seymour. This article relies heavily on Tom Jeals book.
http://www.inquiry.net/ideals/beads.htm

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[8] ibid. http://www.inquiry.net/ideals/woodcraft_laws....

[9] ibid. http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/seton/birc...

[12] LP Elwell-Sutton, Chief Executive Officer, Kibbo Kift Foundation, 1979.

[19] Details of the Honor Degree are unknown.

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