"8. TESTS OF INDUSTRY. —Every candidate at his initiation, should carefully note the particulars of the ceremony; and if there should hap pen to be some things which appear to his inexperience unnecessary, and others that he cannot- exactly comprehend, he may conceive it to be within the bounds of probability that they will admit of a satisfactory explanation. For it is scarcely to be supposed, even by the most ob tuse intellect, that in the nineteenth century educated men would meet together periodically to waste their time in unprofitable discussions; to lend the sanction of their names to propagate a fiction, or to engage in pursuits which lead to no advan tageous result. Let the candidate use the means at his disposal to remove all false impressions, by studying his elementary exercise the tests of the first degree, which re enjoined by the authority of many Grand Lodges—and ought to be by all—as a proof of his in dustry, and a desire of knowledge, for they are intended to convoy some preliminary insight into our allegorical system." "1. A belief in the existence of a Supreme Being, and in the immor tality of the souL "2. That the moral law, which in cnlcates. among other things, chari ty and probity, industry and sobriety, is the nile and guide of every Mason.
"3. Respect for, and obedience to, the civil law of the country, and the Masonic regulations of the juris diction where a Mason may reside.
"4. That new-made Masons must be free-born, of lawful age, and hale and sound at the time of making.
"5. The modes of recognition, and, generally, the rites and ceremo nies of the three degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry.
"6. That no appeal can be taken to the Lodge, from the decision of the Master, or the Warden occupying the Chair in his absence.
"7. That no one can be the Mas ter of a Warranted Lodge till he has been installed and served one year as Warden.
"8. That when a man becomes -a Mason he not only acquires mem bership in the particular Lodge that admits him, but, in a general sense, he becomes one of the whole Masonic Eunily; and hence he has a right to visit, masonic:illy, every regular Lodge, except when such visit is likely to disturb the harmony or interrupt the working of the Lodge he proposes to visit.
"9. The prerogative of the Grand Master to preside over every assem bly of the Craft, within his juris diction, to make Masons at sight in a regular Lodge, and to grant Dis pensations for the formation of new lodges.
"10. That no one can be made a Mason, save in a regular Lodge, duly convened, after petition, and acceptance by unanimous ballot, except when made at sight by the Grand Master.
"11. That the ballot for candidates is strictly and inviolably secret. " 12. That a Lodge cannot try its Master.
"13. That every Mason is amenable to the laws and regulations of the jurisdiction in which he resides, even though he be a member of a particular lodge in some other juris diction.
" 14. The right of the Craft at large to be represented in Grand Lodge, and to instruct their representatives. "15. The general aim and form of the society, as banded down to us by the fathers, to be by us pre served inviolate, and transmitted to our successors forever."