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The Ancient Charges

As posted by Nelson King, Moderator of the Philalethes Email List on Feb. 14, 2000 (copied below):

You may enjoy yourself with innocent mirth, treating one another according to ability, but avoid excess, or forcing any brother to eat or drink beyond his inclination, or hinder him from going when his occasions call him, or doing or saying anything offensive, that would forbid an easy and free conversation, for that would blast our harmony and defeat our laudable purposes. Therefore, no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge, far less any quarrels about religion, or nations, or state policy, we being only as Masons of the universal religion before mentioned; we are also of all nations, tongues, kindreds and languages, and resolved against all politics, as what never yet conduced to the welfare of the lodge, nor ever will.

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Let me quote the Ancient Charges:

You may enjoy yourself with innocent mirth, treating one another 
according to ability, but avoid excess, or forcing any brother to eat 
or drink beyond his inclination, or hinder him from going when his 
occasions call him, or doing or saying anything offensive, that would 
forbid an easy and free conversation, for that would blast our harmony 
and defeat our laudable purposes. Therefore, no private piques or 
quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge, far less any 
quarrels about religion, or nations, or state policy, we being only as 
Masons of the universal religion before mentioned; we are also of all 
nations, tongues, kindreds and languages, and resolved against all 
politics, as what never yet conduced to the welfare of the lodge, nor 
ever will.


Therefore govern yourselves according------ 

Nelson


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