The Order of Pythagorans was founded and introduced to Prince Hall Masonry in 1936 by Past Deputy Grand Master , Right Worshipful James A. Revaleon, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The purpose of the Organization was to provide a club for boys, emphasizing programs for their educational, social, vocational, physical, and moral development.

The Order of Pythagorans was named after Pythagoras, a noted Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 580-c. 500 BC). He traveled extensively throughout Egypt, Chaldea (an ancient region on the Euphrates), the Persian Gulf (originally the southern part of Babylonia), and Asia. Pythagoras was a contemporary with many of the Hebrew prophets and leaders.

Because of his constancy, he was initiated into the mysteries of Hebrew and Egyptian education. Upon his return to his mother country, Samos (a mountainous Greek Island, one mile off West Turkey), he founded the Pythagorean School, which believed in metempsychosis (a thought that the soul imprisoned in the body could be purified by study) and followed a strict discipline of purity and self examination. Pythagoras discovered the numerical ratios of intervals in the musical scale, and believed that the elements of numbers were the elements of the world. He regarded himself as "merely a seeker of knowledge" and not its possessor.

Prince Hall Masonry, like the people of Pythagoras' time has accepted his philosophy as a way of teaching children the art of good citizenship and the Order of Pythagorans has been diversified to meet the ever changing interests and needs of its members. Our goal is to develop better sons and better men.