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pain of immediate expulsion and loss of all privileges, even of those
accumulated by past good conduct referred to in the second part of
this instruction.
26. All disputes between Brethren should be referred firstly to the
Master or Masters of their Lodge or Lodges in conference; if a
composition be not arrived at in this manner, the dispute is to be
referred to the Grand Tribunal, which will arbitrate thereon, and its
decision is to be accepted as final.
27. Refusal to apply for or accept such decision shall entail
expulsion from the Order, and the other party is then at liberty to
seek his redress in the Courts of Profane Justice.
28. Members of the Order are to regard those without its pale as
possessing no rights of any kind, since they have not accepted the
Law, and are therefore, as it were, troglodytes, survivals of a past
civilisation, and to be treated accordingly. Kindness should be shown
towards them, as towards any other animal, and every effort should be
made to bring them into Freedom.
29. Any injury done by any person without the Order to any person
within it may be brought before the Grand Tribunal, which will, if it
deem right and fit, use all its power to redress or to avenge it.
30. In the case of any Brother being accused of an offence against the
criminal law of the country in which he resides, so that any other
Brother cognisant of the fact feels bound in self-defence to bring
accusation, he shall report the matter to the Grand Tribunal as well
as to the Civil Authority, claiming exemption on this ground.
31. The accused Brother will, however, be defended by the Order to the
utmost of its power on his affirming his innocence upon the Volume of
the Sacred Law in the Ordeal appointed ad hoc by the Grand Tribunal
itself.
32. Public enemies of the country of any Brother shall be treated as
such while in the field, and slain or captured as the officer of the
Brother may command. But within the precincts of the Lodge all such
divisions are to be forgotten absolutely; and as children of One
Father the enemies of the hour before and the hour after are to dwell
in peace, amity, and fraternity.
EIGHTH HOUSE
33. Every Brother is expected to bear witness in his last will and
testament to the great benefit that he hath received from the Order by
bestowing upon it part or the whole of his goods, as he may deem fit.
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