Dear Worshipful Bowden, The site you posted tells it all. Thanks you and Fraternal Greetings Tranquility Lodge 2000.. Have a super day!
The Phylaxis Society's Commission on Bogus Masonry continues its work in tracking these fraudulent organizations and notifying Grand Lodges of the jurisdictions where they exist. It is up to those GL's to decide a course of action, or inaction.
Hon. Br. Joseph Walkes, founder and first president of The Phylaxis Society realized the detrimental effect these fake organizations had on the public perception of Prince Hall Freemasonry specifically and Freemasonry in general.
In my personal opinion, many of these BOGUS organizations came about due to violation of the EA obligation and personal vanity did the rest (and has) for the last 150+ years.
Many of these fraudulent organizations were started by persons who had originally been members of legitimate lodges but left over personal disagreements with whomever the disagreements were with, or because of simple greed through using their knowledge of masonic ritual to profit for personal gain as some facts will show.
Frat,