Twentieth Century Orient


 * ''Not to be confused with the Masonic Order of the Grant Orient of France.

The Twentieth Century Orient or Order of the Grand Orient was an American fraternal organisation, active in the late nineteenth century, professedly dedicated to higher social aims of equality and reason, but mainly notable for hosting parties and parades. The initiation ritual of the order was a pastiche of pseudo-Orientalism, pseudo-Masonry, drinking songs, and vulgar in-jokes.