The Lodge Emblem
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The lodge emblem has as its main feature the wolf, the 'Impeesa' of the legend. Within Scouting this also has an allusion to 'Akela', the old wolf of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Kipling, himself a keen freemason, wrote of the old wolf as the source of wisdom.
The wolf is in silver rather than in natural colours, because the Silver Wolf is the highest award, 'given for exceptional services to the Movement' by an adult leader. No less than 6 members of Impeesa Lodge have been recipients of this honour.
The compasses are topped by the arrow head of the Scout Movement.
The background colour is purple - the colour of the World Scout emblem and of the flag of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement. This colour also emphasises universality and is used for the ribbon on both the Founders' and past Masters' jewels.
The emblem is encircled by a silver rope, as on the World Scout emblem, although in the Lodge emblem this rope subtends the two beads of the 'Wood Badge', the international symbol of a trained leader in the Movement. It was originally hoped that all candidates for the Lodge would be Wood Badge holders, but a later decision to include administrators as well as warranted Leaders, rendered this stipulation too restrictive.
The banner is in two colours - Scouting purple and the pale blue of the Craft embellished with silver. It is suspended from a silver-chrome bar with the Scout arrow head at each end.
