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.Glyphs can be incorporatedinto documents, graffiti or lodge and regalia adornments.Getting to GripsYou may wish to utilise special handshakes, known as grips,in the secret society business.Not all organisations use thembut they are worth having.The grips usually signify whichlevel of initiation the member is at.Thus a second levelmember for example will able to tell when gripped prop-erly which level the stranger before him has achieved.Sometimes a grip might not be recognised or may bemissed.The subtle use of additional telltale signs will allowthe social intercourse to function smoothly and withoutconfusion.You can spend several satisfying hours trying outdifferent hand positions to find the ones that best suit youand your brotherhood.PasswordsWe are all familiar with the passwords employed by schoolage gangs, troops and clubs so that admission can be refused113HOW TO START YOUR OWN SECRET SOCIETYto suspicious characters.Passwords, or  Shibboleths as they aresometimes called, can be a single word that can be droppedinto conversation to alert anyone in the room as to yoursecret affiliations or can be used to gain entry to a lodge orlodges particularly those out of town or in unfamiliar terri-tory.They are called Shibboleths because when Jephthah, ofthe Gileadites, caught the fleeing Ephraimites, he asked eachcaptive to say the word shibboleth, which means  a stream inflood .The fugitives could not pronounce the word properlybecause they could not create the  sh sound ( Judges 16:1 16)Entry to a lodge may require a sequence of passwords orindeed whole sentences and correct responses that have tobe learnt by heart.This avoids a lucky chance use of a pass-word (often the staple of naff films) that the person desiringentry may happen upon.It is advisable to follow this lattercourse and have a long sequence of passwords in the formof a structured  conversation , including secret words knownonly to your secret society.The following is just a briefsection from the Lodge Appeal of the Ring Slippy Tweedians.Warden: Hail.Person at door: Hail.Warden: Quid -?Person at door: Pro Quo.Warden: Give me that word.114INITIATION CEREMONIESPerson at door:The word is true and long and difficultto spell.Warden:As it is to all men.Person at door: But all men are not as I&Remember to devise something that is relatively short induration.If it is too long the lodge meeting will be overbefore everyone is in.The Roundhouse Boys had a series ofpasswords for entry to their lodge that took one hour andtwenty-six minutes, while the Elusive Order of SocialMysfits had an entry to the lodge ceremony that was justover a month long.Person at door: Knock, knock.Warden:Who s therePerson at door: Caesar.Warden: Caesar who?Person at door: Caesar firmly from behind and Romearound up front.That exchange was from the Loyal Brethren of the StinkingFrond.It is of course funnier in the original cod Latin.Salutator: Pulsus, pulsus.115HOW TO START YOUR OWN SECRET SOCIETYPraefectus: Quis est libi?Salutator: Caesar.Praefectus: Excrementum!In contrast the Nude Lads had a single word to gain entryto their lodges, the word was  ummm?Written CorrespondenceWhen you are writing a letter or engaging in some form ofwritten correspondence it is beneficial to drop subtle hints(other than glyphs) about who you are just in case the recip-ient of your screed is a fellow member of your secret society.Obviously this will not be the case in the early years but asyour group expands across the country, and if you areblessed, across the world, you will need to communicatewith them without revealing too much to a third party whomay happen upon your letter.The rule of thumb is nothing too overt.Do not betempted to use such terms as  Worshipful Master ,  lodgebrother ,  as a fellow member of&  Subtlety is the order of theday.Selecting identifying code words from your initiationceremony might be a useful ploy but just one word only one that perhaps has two meanings, an everyday normal useand one that can also be interpreted as being part of yoursecret society.Savaloy might be too obscure or miscon-strued, whereas civility fits the bill perfectly [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]