For over 25 years since having a copy of an early 1920’s Journal to read, I have searched various sources to find this particular book with no success until I started in earnest to write a new book about the history of the R.A.O.B. and pleaded for information from all sections and Banners that would help me in my research. The outcome of this plea for information has resulted in receiving a flood of old documents and ephemera regarding the R.A.O.B. that is proving difficult to catalogue and research, however, it makes fascinating reading and has given me a much more comprehensive view of the early days in our Order, may I give my sincere thanks to all who have come forward in supplying me with much needed information, their names will be acknowleged in the final book when it is printed. This particular book has been given to me by a member and dear friend of the Grand Lodge of England.
In this particular work by Bro. E. Graham Dunstan the start of the R.A.O.B. is thrown wide open with his thoughts, he exposes some of the myths about the difference between the bull worshipers of ancient Egypt and the Buffalo Order. It has to be remembered though that this book was written in 1922 so some of his remarks may not apply to the current date.
As it has become a generally conceded and accepted fact that the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, (Grand Lodge of England) is becoming a mighty power for good in the land and a serious challenger for supremacy with any or all the sister Orders, in the work and aims of doing good, which they all attempt with more or less similarity, it naturally behoves us to make ourselves thoroughly conversant with the truth respecting its origin: the true facts of its antiquity, if there be any, together with all proofs appertaining to these points in particular, and any others in general; which may, or may not be open to challenge, either by ridiculing unbelievers or true seekers for information.
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