 The Fraternal Aid Union changed its name to the Standard Life Association in 1933.The Standard Life Association in turn became Standard Mutual Life, a mutual company, in 1968.Unusually for a nineteenth century American fraternal order, the Improved Order of Heptasophs dispensed with the state or "Grand" level of organization and consisted only of the local Subordinate Conclaves and the Supreme Conclave, which had control over the groups business and beneficiary activities.