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=== Sec. 100. COMMON LAW === | === Sec. 100. COMMON LAW === | ||
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The Common Law of Freemasonry is to be learned from the ancient usages of the Craft as developed and interpreted from and after A. D. 1721. It is the foundation of Masonic jurisprudence. | The Common Law of Freemasonry is to be learned from the ancient usages of the Craft as developed and interpreted from and after A. D. 1721. It is the foundation of Masonic jurisprudence. | ||
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=== Sec. 101. LANDMARKS: DEFINITION === | === Sec. 101. LANDMARKS: DEFINITION === | ||
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The Landmarks are those ancient and universal fundamental principles of the Craft which no Masonic authority can alter or repeal. | The Landmarks are those ancient and universal fundamental principles of the Craft which no Masonic authority can alter or repeal. | ||
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=== Sec. 102. LANDMARKS: LIST === | === Sec. 102. LANDMARKS: LIST === | ||
| − | <span style="color:# | + | <span style="color:#009966">This Grand Lodge recognizes the following Landmarks:</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">a. Monotheism, the sole dogma of Freemasonry;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">b. Belief in immortality, the ultimate lesson of Masonic philosophy;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">c. The Volume of the Sacred Law, an indispensable part of the furniture of a Lodge;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">d. The legend of the Third Degree;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">e. Secrecy;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">f. The symbolism of the operative art;</span> |
| − | * <span style="color:# | + | * <span style="color:#009966">g. A Mason must be a freeborn male adult.</span> |
| − | <span style="color:# | + | <span style="color:#009966">The above list of Landmarks is not declared to be exclusive.</span> |
==== Earlier Revisions ==== | ==== Earlier Revisions ==== | ||
Revision as of 20:20, 13 January 2014
Contents
GRAND CONSTITUTIONS, PART I
PART I: GENERAL
Sec. 100. COMMON LAW
The Common Law of Freemasonry is to be learned from the ancient usages of the Craft as developed and interpreted from and after A. D. 1721. It is the foundation of Masonic jurisprudence.
Earlier Revisions
- GC1918: Section 100; 1918-334
- GC1930: Section 100; 1930-90
References
- Woodbury Address, 1877-20; Description of the formation of an independent Grand Lodge.
- 1916-826ff
- 1916-872Aff
- 20MFM-21 (or 25MFM?)
Sec. 101. LANDMARKS: DEFINITION
The Landmarks are those ancient and universal fundamental principles of the Craft which no Masonic authority can alter or repeal.
Earlier Revisions
- GC1918: Section 101; 1918-334
- GC1930: Section 101; 1930-90
References
- 1878-85
- 1902-21
- 1916-805 ff
- 1918-217
Sec. 102. LANDMARKS: LIST
This Grand Lodge recognizes the following Landmarks:
- a. Monotheism, the sole dogma of Freemasonry;
- b. Belief in immortality, the ultimate lesson of Masonic philosophy;
- c. The Volume of the Sacred Law, an indispensable part of the furniture of a Lodge;
- d. The legend of the Third Degree;
- e. Secrecy;
- f. The symbolism of the operative art;
- g. A Mason must be a freeborn male adult.
The above list of Landmarks is not declared to be exclusive.
Earlier Revisions
- GC1918: Section 102; 1918-334
- GC1930: Section 101; 1930-90
References
- 1878-85
- 1916-819ff
- 1951-138
- 26MFM-320, 31MFM-99, 1915Builder-38, 183, 197
- a:
- 26M.F.M. 325
- 1915-227
- 1915-381
- 1916-819
- b:
- 1916-820
- c:
- 1915-221
- 1915-230
- 1915-379
- 1916-821
- d:
- 1916-823
- e:
- 1916-823
- f:
- 1916-824
- g:
- 1916-824
