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ARGUMENT.
The duties, powers .and privileges of a Master in opening and
(•losing a Lodge and conducting the work are herein defined.
The right of supervision over subordinates, the personal repre-
sentation of specific virtues, the definition of titles, etc. , are also
herein designated ;
officers to each other are given.
and the true position and relationship of the
Further, that the right to govern in a Lodge is not only that ac-
quired by a formal selection through the suffrages of the brethren,
and a subsequent installation, but by the power of Masonic intel-
ligence attained through patient labor and the study of Masonic
law, and of the true understanding and ability to teach the tenets,
doctrines, and symbolic legends of the Order. Exemplification
is given in brief, but much important instruction of the true
manner of conferring degrees in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Kite is impressed upon the candidate ; and he is charged, as
a Master of all Symbolic Lodges, to preserve Masonry in its primi-
tive purity.
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