Glen Burnie Lodge 213

I. The modes of recognition.

II. The Division of Symbolic Masonry into three degrees.

III. The legend of the Third Degree.

IV. The government of the fraternity by a presiding officer called a
Grand Master, who is elected from the body of the Craft.

V. The prerogative of the Grand Master to preside over every
assembly of the Craft, wheresoever and whensoever held.

VI. The prerogative of the Grand Master to grant dispensations for
conferring degrees at irregular times.

VII. The prerogative of the Grand Master to grand dispensations
for opening and holding Lodges.

VIII. The prerogative of the Grand Master to make Masons at sight.
IX. The necessity of Masons to congregate in Lodges.

X. The government of every Lodge by a Master and two
Wardens.

XI. The necessity that every Lodge, when congregated, should be
duly tiled.

XII. The right of every Mason to be represented in all general
meetings of the Craft, and to instruct his representatives.

XIII. The right of every Mason to appeal from the decision of his
brethren in Lodge convened to the Grand Lodge or General
Assembly of Masons.

XIV. The right of every Mason to visit and sit in every regular
Lodge.

XV. That no visitor, not known to some brother as a Mason, can
enter a Lodge without undergoing an examination.

XVI. That no Lodge can interfere in the business or labor of
another Lodge.

XVII. That every Freemason is amenable to the Laws and
regulations of the Masonic jurisdiction in which he resides.

XVIII. That every candidate for initiation must be a man, free born
and of lawful age.

XIX. That every Mason must believe in the existence of God as the
Grand Architect of the Universe.

XX. That every Mason must believe in a resurrection to a future
life.

XXI. That a book of the law of God must constitute an
indisputable part of the furniture of the Lodge.

XXII. That all men in the sight of God are equal, and meet in the
Lodge on one common level.

XXIII. That Freemasonry is a secret society, in possession of
secrets that cannot be divulged.

XXIV. That Freemasonry consists of a speculative science founded
on an operative art.