The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX 29. Any injury done by any person without the Order to any person within it may be brought before the Grand Tri- bunal, 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 mat- ter 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 in- nocence 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. 34. The death of a Brother is not to be an occasion of melancholy, but of rejoicing; the Brethren of his Lodge shall gather together and make a banquet with music and dancing and all manner of gladness. It is of the greatest importance that this shall be done, for thereby the inherited 216