The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS 23. Visitors from other Lodges are to be accorded the treatment of ambassadors; this will apply most especially to Sovereign Grand Inspector Generals of the Order on their tours of inspection. All hospitality and courtesy shown to such is shown to Ourselves, not to them only. SEVENTH HOUSE 24. It is desirable that the marriage partner of any Brother should also be a member of the Order. Neglect to insist upon this leads frequently to serious trouble for both parties, especially for the uninitiate. 25. Lawsuits between members of the Order are abso- lutely forbidden, on pain of immediate expulsion and loss of all privileges, even of those accumulated by past good con- duct 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 man- ner, the dispute is to be referred to the Grand Tribunal, which will arbitrate thereon, and its decision is to be ac- cepted as final. 27. Refusal to apply for or to 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. 215