The first Spirit of the Arrow booklets were made available for sale by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Alpha Phi Omega (APO) – a group that later became the Ceremonial Advisory Group (CAG).

Spirit of the Arrow booklets became an official part of the program of the Order of the Arrow following their introduction at the 1971 NOAC training show titled “The Spirit of the Arrow.”  

Ray Petit and Jay Dunbar were instrumental in the introduction of the Spirit of the Arrow to the Order of the Arrow.