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portions of them may be made known even to nonprofessors , if the interests of the Society can be furthered thereby ; still , ib is to be done only under the seal of secrecy , and the communications should in every case purport to be derived fram personal experience , not drawn from a written source . And as many of the professors are acquainted with these secrets , the Society

is to take care , from the very outset , that none of those acquainted with them join any other Order , save the Carthusians , Avho are innocuous , by reason of the life of perpetual seclusion they lead , and the strict silence they keep ; and this regulation has been appiwed of by the Holy See . Great care should be taken that these instructions do

not fall into the hands of strangers ( manus extemorum ) , as they might ascribe to them a sinister meaning , from their envy against our Order ; but if such a thing should happen ( which God forbid ) , it is to be denied that these are the doctrines of the Society , and for evidence are to be adduced such of our Order as are certain to be ignorant of them ; and our general instructions , and

printed or Avritten rules and regulations are to be put forth , against them . The superiors are also to inquire always , zealously aud cautiously , if these instructions have been communicated by any one of ours to some stranger ; and no one is to transcribe them or cause them to be transcribed , either for himself or for another , save by the permission of the general or provincial . If anyone should be suspected of being unable to keep such secrets of the Society , he is to be taught the contrary , and expelled .

CHAPTER I . How the Society is to hehave on beginning a foundation ¦ in any place . 1 . To make themselves agreeable to tho inhabitants of the locality , it is important that the object of the Society should be explained , as laid down in the rules , in which it is said that members of the Society are to work

with , all their povrer for tbe good of their felloAV-men no less than that of the Society . For this reason the most humble duties are to be performed in hospitals ; the poor , the afflicted , ancl prisoners to be visited , confessions to be heard promptly and indiscriminately , so that tbe most prominent inhabitants may admire and love the members of our Order , on account of their unwonted benevolence

to all , and the novelt } ' of the thing . 2 . Let it be remembered that permission to perform the duties of the Society should ahvays be solicited in an humble and modest manner , and great caro be taken to render favourable to us those of the clergy and of tho laity whose authority Ave require . 3 . Members are also to go to distant places to collect alms ( however small the offerings may be ) , bj' showing

that Ave are needy of them ; and let them be given afterwards to other poor , that those vyho did not know our Society before , may bo favourably influenced and rendered all the more liberal towards us . 4 . Let all appear to breathe the same spirit , and take all to the same outward behaviour , so that the uniformity , in such a number and diversity of persons , may

favourably strike every one , and let those who are doing otherwise be dismissed as injurious . 5 . Ab the beginning care should be taken not to buy any real property ; but if some grounds well adapted for our purpose should be bought , it must be fclonc apparently tinder the name of some faithful and discreet friends ; and , Avith a view the better to SIIOAV how poor

we are , estates adjoining tho places in yvhich Ave have stations should be assigned to the Provincial of some remote station , so that princes or magistrates may never have an exact knoAvledge of the income of tho Society . 6 . Members of our Order are to proceed only to opulent towns , for the purpose of residing there , by way of forming a station . The object of our Society must be to imitate Christ our Saviour , -who stayed chiefly at

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Jerusalem , and never sojourned bub temporarily in places , of minor importance . 7 . The greatest possible donation is always to beextracted ( extorqiiendum ) from Avidows , after having satisfied them of the extreme necessity in which we are . 8 . la no province is any one , save the Provincial himself to be alloAved to know the exact amount of owr

revenue , but that which is to be found in the Exchequer ( cortona ) at Rome , must be a general secret . 9 . Our associates should preach and profess everywhere in conversation that they haA'e come to give instruction to the youth , and do charity to the people ; that they are doing all gratuitously , and without any regard , to their own interest , and that they are not an incubus

( graraineu ) on the community like all other religious orders . ( To oe continued ) . [ The term " nosfcri , " ours , Avhich occurs in almost every paragraph , has been rendered respectively " our associates , " " members of our Order , " "members , " & c . _ In the original the expression " nostri " is used throughout . —ED . F . M . ]

Thoughts On The Beautiful.

THOUGHTS ON THE BEAUTIFUL .

" There ' s beauty all around our paths , If but onr watchful eyes Can trace it 'mill familiar things Ami through their lowly guise . " There is a tradition among Masons—perhaps it is more than , a tradition—that the Craft in earlier

days set apart a portion of their time to the contemplation of the material creation ; and the object was , especially , that they might thereb y be induced to " adore their great Creator /'' This is in hannony Avith all that pertains to Masonry ; for

everything- in its rituals , usages , precepts , and sciences tends to this point—the worshi p of the ' " ' ' one living and true God . " His unspoken Name is the soul and central sun of Masonry , and the grand design of the Order is to unite all in one

fraternal bond—united , to Him and in Him as the great object of life : and from which union is to be derived the ultimate and hi ghest conceivable happ iness of man for ever . An old writer near two thousand years ago

declares , substantially , that the invisible things of JeliOA'ah — the goodness , mercy , Avisdom , and . power of the Godhead—are seen and understood b y the things which he has made . They present to the discerning eye and discriminating mind a

distinct and glorious revelation , in which he is heard _ to speak Avords of wisdom and consolation , and g ive assurance of safety and protection . God is seen in the grandeur of his poAver Avhen Ave look on the lofty and rugged mountain , the pathless

ocean , the desert Avaste ; or AA'hen Ave listen to the roar of the Avh . irly . md and the crash of the thunder .. But it is in the aspects of beauty , so abundant in . his Avorks , that the heart is most draAYii to liim ,