The History of Odd Fellows
The Possible Origins
While these beautiful Native American petroglyphs do not depict Odd Fellowship, it doesn't take much to discern that the holding of hands indicates some sort of relationship.
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< This other fellow was added because he appears to be wearing one of our collars.
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- Credit to the First Nations People of the Americas
Odd Fellowship has been practised, in one form or another since the beginning of time.
The process of communicating with another human being is explained in the basic principles which we follow.
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Friendships are built through some form of love and results in a revelation of truth from participating perspectives. Only then can we build, together, our communities for a mutual objective. The result of these singular relationships where we help and elevate one another result in higher ennobled degrees of an evolving society.
Through the power of relationships we can evolve towards the betterment of life on earth.
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But first as uniquely Odd as we are to one another, the story of Odd Fellowship begins in practising Odd Fellowship - the elevating of one's self character.
Rumours and Records
Records
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1700 - 1730
Records tell us that we are several centuries old. The earliest known records are from the 1700s. While the first lodges were documented in 1730 in England.
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1890-1842
Our American version was founded in April 26 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. It was
chartered by the British Manchester Unity Odd Fellows. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F) became an independent organisation in 1842.
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From Rumours and Records
Rumours
Tell that Odd Fellows are a secret society millions of years old. Somehow we built a cabal of elites to plan and bring about a new world order. "They" say that we have established locations were we hide real skeletons in our closets....which may or may not be true.
Some say we have the capacity to erase history, educate the orphans and bury the dead. We all know that there are very few orphanages left and that there are strict rules for burring someone - usually left to the funeral homes.