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Chapter 8 - Categorization of Rituals
cipher and key to be used for detection of impostors seeking to receive charity
from the order, in the hope that this means might land some of these venturers in
robbery and scoundrelism behind the bars and make an end of these begging
"brothers":
Telegraph Cipher and Key: 1618
HOUSE Is in our city, holding a visiting card from your lodge, and asking of
us financial assistance.
FUNDS Shall we aid him, and draw on you to the extent of ...
CASH Is in our city asking financial assistance, and claims membership in
your lodge in good standing.
RIVER Has your lodge a member in good standing by the name of ...
BOAT He is an expelled member and has not been in good standing for...
WHITE We don't know any such party, and he does not belong to our lodge.
GRIP Draw on us for the amount of expenses incurred.
CAUTION Look out for a fraud named ...
SECRETARY He has a fraudulent card.
FINAL A member of your lodge died here.
BLOCK He is a fraud, and if he has a card or other papers from this lodge
they are forgeries.
RED Holding a visiting card from your lodge, died here.
GREEN Wire instructions to us at once as to the disposition of his remains.
YELLOW Is in our city and very sick. Claims membership in your lodge. Shall
we give him attendance on your account?
PURPLE We think best to bury him there.
LODGE Forward remains to this place by...
REGALIA Assist him and we will honor draft to the extent of...
HELP Will your lodge pay nurse hire, and how much per day?
8.2 Commercialization and Marketing
Strategies
Hold Masonry high; keep its dignity, its reputation unsullied. Do not
mix it up with money and with barter. For it is written 'Render therefore
unto Cæsar the things that be Cæsar's and unto God the things which be
God's.'
Money and trade belong to Cæsar.
Masonry in men's hearts belongs to God. 1619
Comparable to Jesus' tabula rasa when purging the temple of the merchants,
Claudy makes a clean sweep with regard to Masons who take advantage of their
brotherhood in the name of commercial success. Therewith, he hints at a very
interesting point also for profanes. For, talking about trade in connection with
Freemasonry, the first question we must ask ourselves is whether there exists an
1618 Stillson, The History and Literature of Odd Fellowship, p. 173.
1619 Claudy, A Master's Wages, p. 67.