Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

~64 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES OF PERFECTION. 366ARTICLE 4TH.If any brethren assemble irregularly for the purposeof initiating persons into this degree, they should bereprimanded, and no mason of a regular lodge canrecognize or visit Ihem on pain of sneh penalties as thelaws of the lodges of Perfeetion shall prescribe.ARTICLE 5TH.If a Royal lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasters should expel one of its members for misconduct,information thereof must forthwith be given tothe Grand Inspector or his Deputy, that he may be ableto notify thereof the-other regular lodges and the GrandCouncil. If a regular lodge should violate the laws miposedupon it by the solemn provisions of our secretconstitutions or should refuse to submit and to ask forgivenessin the most humble manner by a petitionsigned by all the members eonfessing their fault, showingat the same time that they have eeased to work untilsueh time as it shall please the Grand Couneil of theSublime Prinees to relieve them from interdietion, topardon them, and receive them again into favor.ARTICLE 6TH.Any new lodge that may eome into possession of newdegrees, relating to the order in general should immediatelymake the same known to the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy.ARTICLE 7TH.The present statutesand regulations must be read toevery brother when he takes the degree of Royal Arch.He must promise punctually to obey them, and at alltimes to recognize the Knights of the East, Princes ofJerusalem, Knights of the East and West, Knight~ ofthe White Eagle, Knights Rose Croix, PatriarchsNoachite, Knights of the Royal Axe, Grand Pontils,Knights Princes Adept, Knights of the White andBlack Eagle, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret andthe Grand Inspectors and their Deputies as his chiefs,whom he must promise to respect and their Council te.follow in whatever they direct. He must also promise toincrease in zeal, fervor and constancy for the order, tothe end that he may one day attain to the degrec ofGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and to besubmissive and obedient to the statutes and regulationsheretofore made, or that may hereafter be made by theSovereign Princes, chief of the order of masonry, andthat he will pay them all the honors to which they areentitled and to add more force to such obligation, hemust sign a submission in due form.ARTICLE 8TH.Every lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasons should have nine officers, including whom thenumber of members should not exceed twenty-seven.The Thrice Puissant is not counted among the nineofficers. He represents Solomon. Hiram King of Tyresits on his right, in the absence of the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy.First—The Qrand Keeper of Seals, representingGalahad, son of Sophonia chief of the Levites, who sitson the left of the Thrice Puissant.Second—The Grand Treasurer, representing Guibumm,the confidant of Solomon, who sits in front of thetable of sLew-bread.Third—The Grand Orator, representing Abdamon,who explained to Solomon many enigmas and the