Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento, author

THE REVIVAL OF ODD FELLOWS PHILIPPINES 12 YEARS AGO BEGAN AS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT By Louie Blake S. Sarmiento, M.A., J.D.                     Believe it or not, the revival of Odd Fellows Philippines began as a psycho-social experiment. The aim was “ to help change the negative public image of fraternities in the country .” From the 1970’s up to the early 2000’s, fraternities and sororities in the country have earned a bad or tainted public reputation as a result of several deaths due to hazing, frat-related violence such as “frat-wars”, drug abuse and alcoholism, machismo and date or gang-rapes, etc. There already came a point when there is but a very thin difference between fraternities and gangs. Moreover, women and other genders were usually rejected from the membership. This heightened sense of masculinity, if not corrected, may be a training ground for other forms of gender-related discrimination and violence in the househ...

By Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento Author; Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Juris Doctor Brother Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was a prominent American lawyer, philanthropist, soldier, poet, philosopher and writer. He is one of the many notable and controversial men in fraternal history who held high-ranking positions in both Odd Fellowship and Anglo-American or Regular Freemasonry. Brother Albert Pike was a Past Grand Master in Odd Fellowship and a Past Sovereign Grand Commander in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. He is more popularly and controversially known as a Freemason who single-handedly revised the Rituals of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (A.A.S.R.) from 1855 to 1884 and for publishing the book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 1871. He is asserted within the A.A.S.R. Southern Jurisdiction as the person most responsible for the growth and success of the Scottish Rite from ...