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 OPENING CEREMONY 
 
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 [The Chapter room shall not be open to any except members 
 of this degree. Visitors and candidates must remain in the 
 ante-room until the Chapter has been opened. 
 
 Officers must occupy their proper stations as designated in 
 
 the diagram. 
 
 At the hour for meeting the W. M. will take the .Seat of Wis¬ 
 dom and call the Chapter to order by * * strokes of the 
 
 baton and say:] 
 
 W. M. Brothers we are about to open a Chapter 
 of the Degree of the Philosopher Stone. The officers 
 will take their respective stations, the Sentinel will 
 secure the Phylon and the Investigator will make 
 sure that all present are qualified to remain and 
 share in the benefits of this Chapter of Philosophy. 
 
 [Investigator examines all presen^and reports.] 
 
 I. Worthy Magistrate. The eyes of all have seen 
 the light of the true philosophy of life. 
 
 [At the sound of * * * * strokes of the baton all 
 
 present will approach the center of the Chapter. Form in a 
 square The five officers within the square beginning with the 
 “S,” who repeats the words on the face of first leaf which lies 
 face down, then turns face of leaf up which verifies his words. I, 
 repeats words on second leaf, turns it over. R. repeats on third 
 leaf, turns it over. \ . M. repeats on fourth leaf and turns it 
 over. M. repeats on fifth leaf and turns it over, leaving up svm- 
 ool of center]. 
 
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 , -.MrAll ure &re admitted as a reward for their 
 
 ’;'»yahhnt service yn't fie cause of Knighthood. 
 
 Adi who filter the Phylon of our Chapter faith- 
 
 \ "fully''hind'aiVl-.pJedge themselves on their honor as 
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 . strive/JChighfs* to keep completely and profoundly 
 ^tftftVril things seen, heard, said or done here, and 
 all things in anywise related to the Philosopher’s 
 degree except such as are permitted to be made 
 known under our laws in this high degree of 
 Knighthood. 
 
 All. All of which we solemnly bind ourselves to 
 faithfully keep and do. 
 
 I. Each and all seek the light of the true philoso¬ 
 phy pledge themselves to bend the whol e power of 
 their minds and wills to listen and learn the lessons 
 of the true Philosophy of life taught by our Magis¬ 
 trate within the sacred precincts of the Chapters of 
 the Philosophers Stone. 
 
 All. Faithfully we will follow the admonitions of 
 the Investigator so long as we shall live. 
 
 R. Remember that the record of faithfulness of all 
 members is kept, and by that record shall each mem¬ 
 ber of the degree be rewarded or punished. For the 
 eyes of the philosophers see farther, and the hand of 
 the philosophers hold more power to reward or punish 
 than is given to any other human agency. 
 
 All. We remember and shall abide by and accept 
 the reward which the record of our lives and deeds 
 does give. 
 
 V. M. To face with steady gaze and good heart all 
 the vast, complex and terrible phenomena which sur¬ 
 rounds us in this world, and to learn the mighty 
 secrets of nature’s universe, not for the gratification 
 of our personal greed or selfishness, but to promote 
 the happiness and welfare of all mankind, will be our 
 study. 
 
 All. So do we all promise faithful and true. 
 
 W. M. Labor, life-long activity of body and mind 
 in accord with the eternal harmonies of this universe 
 of law, is the final supreme duty and privilege we all 
 have undertaken when admitted to the sacred Chap- 
 
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 ter of the Philosophers Stone. Just and generous, 
 calm and kind shall be every word and act and 
 thought of ours within the sacred square of all the 
 Chapters of this degree. Out into the wide and war¬ 
 ring world we will ever seek to carry the noble and 
 knightly Philosophy and conduct of life inculcated 
 here# And against this black empire of necessity 
 and night, of ignorance and greed, will we do battle 
 till the bright beams of liberty's light shed their soft 
 radiance over a regenerated earth, peopled by a 
 universal brotherhood of men living in liberty, equal¬ 
 ity and fraternity, peace and plenty and happiness 
 for all. 
 
 W. M. Join me in the opening sign of the Chapter. 
 
 [W. M. gives * * strokes of the baton and the Chapter 
 
 is seated.] 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 1. Report of proceedings of last Chapter. 
 
 2. Initiation of candidates. 
 
 3. Communications and finances. 
 
 4. Reports of the progress of the Order. 
 
 5. Discussion of Philosophy. 
 
 6. Closing. 
 
 INITIATION CEREMONY. 
 
 S. Worthy Magistrate and Brothers there is a true 
 and faithful Knight of Labor of good standing from 
 
 L. A.- and D. A.- at the Phylon seeking 
 
 admission to our realm of Light and Philosophy. 
 
 R. His credentials have been examined by the 
 
 members - - - and he is found a tried 
 
 and true Knight, entitled to receive the degree. 
 
 W. M. The Sentinel and Guide will proceed to 
 the Phylon and prepare the Knight for admission to 
 the Chapter. [The Sentinel and Guide will apply the 
 test to the waiting Knight and if found correct will 
 place white baton in his hand and ask:] 
 
 Guide.-True Knight of Labor and 
 
 soldier in the army of liberty you have, during many 
 months by faithful and distinguished service to the 
 Order of the Knights of Labor and the cause of 
 
humanity shown your devotion to the right. Are you 
 now willing and prepared to take on yourself an obliga¬ 
 tion to completely and fully, for all time, devote all 
 your efforts of body and mind, above that amount 
 needed to procure yourself and your dependant 
 family a decent and comfortable living, to the work 
 of abolishing ignorance, freeing the toiler and uplift¬ 
 ing humanity, through the plans and policies of the 
 Order of the Knights of Labor, and especially in the 
 instructions given you by the officers and members 
 of the Philosopher’s Stone Degree, and to solemnly 
 obligate yourself to obey the mandates of the Order 
 even to the hazard of all you possess, even your life, 
 and at all times keep profoundly secret all things 
 connected with this Order excejff such as the laws of 
 the degree permit you to make known? 
 
 Answer. I will so long as I live. 
 
 Guide. It is well. Enter then with us to the inner 
 Temple of Philosophy. 
 
 LTiie Guide then gives entering signal.! 
 
 W. M. * * * * Form a square around the 
 
 center. Left hands over hearts, right hand extended; 
 palm up level with waist. 
 
 W. M. Sentinel admit the Knight who seeks, and 
 and by faithful service has earned the high degree 
 which we alone can confer. 
 
 W. M. Guide has the Knight you bring been 
 tried, tested and found worthy of the high honors and 
 privileges, powers and benefits of the Philosopher’s 
 Stone? 
 
 G. The Knight I bring is tried and truly worthy 
 of our trust. 
 
 W. M. Place him within the sacred square where 
 falls the light of truth and liberty. 
 
 [G. Instructs the Knight Place your left hand on your 
 heart, extend right hand open, palm up level with waist, and 
 repeat after the V. M.:] 
 
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 V. M. and Candidate. I,-do here and 
 
 now, of my own free will, deliberately, faithfully and 
 solemnly promise upon my hope of happiness and my 
 Knightly honor, that I will keep absolutely and pro- 
 
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 found ly secret everything relating to the high and 
 noble Philosophers Stone Degree of the Knights 
 ' of Labor and its members, solely excepting 
 such matters as by special permission or the laws 
 of the Degree and the Order I am permitted to make 
 known, and which being known will not work injury 
 to the Order, the Degree or its members. And I will 
 faithfully obey with all my powers of body and mind 
 all the Degree laws and the instructions I receive in 
 the Chapters of the Philosophers Stone, and pledge 
 myself by all I hold dear to never abuse or wrong¬ 
 fully use the knowledge, power, authority or official 
 position conferred on me. I will cease from all 
 efforts to grasp wealth or acquire riches, which are 
 the products of others labor, or to gratify the desire 
 for luxury and excess of any kind at the expense of 
 another’s toil; and will strive to reconstruct the social? 
 industrial and political system, so that all who are 
 able must do their fair share of the work of the 
 world, that none may live in idleness, and each 
 wealth producer be secured in the peaceful possession 
 ot the perfect freedom of body and mind and all the 
 products of his labor. As these objects can only be 
 obtained bv the abolition of ignorance and the en- 
 lightment and education of the masses of workers, I 
 will do all in my power to spread intelligence and 
 truth among them and to light the lamp of science 
 in all the dark places of theworld. And I will ever 
 exert my best endeavors to protect the members of 
 this degree from the persecution and wrongs which 
 the friends of tyranny always seek to inflict on those 
 who endeavor to lead the masses of humanity out of 
 bondage and oppression. To the brave and chosen 
 few who stand within the sacred square of the Phil¬ 
 osopher’s Stone I will give a true brother’s counsel, help 
 and succor at all times, in health and sickness, pros¬ 
 perity 01 distress so long as I shall live. 
 
 All. With the hands of help and the hearts of 
 sympathy we welcome and receive our brother as a 
 tried true Knight and chosen Philosopher. 
 
 [W\ M. gives * * strokes seats the Chapter. 
 
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 V. M. Guide, present our new Philosopher to the 
 Worthy Magistrate, who will point out to him the 
 deep and true Philosophy and the high and noble 
 conduct of which we trust he will be a true and 
 honored exemplar. 
 
 [The Guide conducts the candidate to the AY. M.] 
 
 G. Worthy Magistrate by direction of our Worthy 
 \ r ice Magistrate I present to you our new Philosopher 
 for instruction. 
 
 W. M. Here, O Brother, are old trees, tall pines 
 and gnarled oaks— 
 
 That stream with gray green mosses. Here the 
 ground 
 
 Wa9 never touched by spade, and flowers 
 spring up 
 
 Unsown and die ungathered. It is sweet 
 To linger here, among the flitting birds 
 And leaping squirrels, wandering brooks 
 and winds. 
 
 That shake the leaves and scatter, as they pass, 
 
 A fragrance from the cedars, thickly set 
 
 With pale blue berries. In these peaceful shades 
 
 Peaceful, unpruned, immeasurably old— 
 
 Our thoughts go up the long dim path of years, 
 Back to the earliest days of liberty. 
 
 O, Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream 
 A fair young girl with light and delicate limbs, 
 And wavy tresses gushing from the cap 
 With which the Roman master crowned his slave 
 When he took off the gyves. A bearded man; 
 Armed to the teeth, art thou: One mailed hand 
 Grasps i he broad shield and one the lance; 
 thy brow 
 
 Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred 
 With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs 
 Are strong with struggling. Power at thee 
 has launched 
 
 His bolts and with his lightenings smitten thee: 
 They could not quench the life thou hast from 
 heaven: 
 
 Merciless power has dug thy dungeon deep, 
 
 And his swart armorers by a thousand fires, 
 
 Have forged thy chain; yet while he deems 
 thee bound, 
 
 The links are shivered, and the prison walls 
 Fall outward; terribly thou springest forth 
 As springs the flame above a burning pile, 
 
 And shoutest to the nations who return 
 Thy shoutings, while the pale oppressor flies 
 The birthright was not given by human hands 
 Thou'wer’t twin born with man. In pleasant 
 fields 
 
 While yet our race were few, thou satist with him 
 
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To tend the quiet flock and watch the stars, 
 
 Or teach the reed to utter simple airs. 
 
 Thou by his side amid the tangled wood 
 Didst war upon the panther and the wolf 
 His only foes, and thou with him didst draw, 
 
 The earliest furrow on the mountain side 
 Soft with the deluge. Tyranny himself, 
 
 Thy enemy, altho’ of reverend look 
 Hoary with many years and far obeyed, 
 
 Is later born than thou; and as he meets 
 The grave defiance of thine elder eye, 
 
 The usurper trembles in his fastnesses. 
 
 Thou shalt wax stronger with the lapse of years 
 But he shall fade into a feebler age— 
 
 Feebler, yet subtler. He shall wave his snares 
 And spring them on thy careless steps and clasp 
 His withered hands and from their ambush call 
 His horde, to fall upon thee. He shall send 
 Quaint maskers, wearing fair and gallant forms 
 To catch thy gaze and uttering graceful, words 
 To claim thy ear: While his sly imps by stealth 
 Twine around thee threads of steel, light thread 
 on thread 
 
 That grow to fetters: or bind down thy arms 
 With chains concealed in chaplets, Oh! Xot yet 
 Mayst thou embrace thy corselet nor lay by 
 Thy sword. Nor yet O Freedom! 
 
 Close thy lids 
 
 In slumber: For thine enemy never sleeps 
 And thou must watch and combat till the day 
 Of the new earth and heaven. But wouldst * 
 thou rest 
 
 Awhile from the tumult and the haunts of men 
 These old and friendly solitudes invite 
 Thy visit. They, while yet the forest trees 
 Were young upon the unviolated earth, 
 
 And yet the moss stains on the rocks were new, 
 Beheld thy glorious childhood and rejoiced. 
 
 Here with the few brave and chosen spirits thou 
 mavst hold secret and comforting counsel. Here we 
 have gathered for inspiring and instructive consid¬ 
 eration of past experience and future prospects, talk¬ 
 ing o’er the battles of bygone times and from them 
 drawing lessons of wisdom for the mighty struggles 
 yet to come, ere thou canst win thy complete and 
 final victory o’er tyranny in his last strongholds of 
 power. We invoke thy spirit, O Freedom, to guide 
 us and our new Brother in all our counsels. Let us 
 all be alike gentle and kindly to all our brethren but 
 brave and strong in our resistance to tyranny and the 
 oppressors of the toiling poor. 
 
 The latent power of human progress lies dormant 
 
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 in the minds of men to-day. To arouse and give 
 direction for good to this force, is the great educa¬ 
 tional work for members of this Degree, especially to 
 accomplish. ^ 
 
 That they may be successful in this important 
 work, each member is expected to forego the gratifi¬ 
 cation of the desire for luxury or excess of any kind. 
 Temperance and moderation in all things are en¬ 
 joined. Sufficient daily labor to provide the neces¬ 
 sary and reasonable comforts of life should be devoted 
 to yourself and dependant families, after that and 
 needed rest and recreation, whatever of mental and 
 physical force you have left should be devoted to 
 advancing the power and influence for the good of 
 this order. Great and glorious gains for humanity 
 will be the result. 
 
 Put behind you forever the greed for wealth and 
 the fear of poverty in the future. To win the grand 
 results aimed at by this Order some risks must be 
 run and some sacrifices must be made, and this is one 
 which members of the Degree are expected to under¬ 
 take. Let the practice of your life be consistent with 
 this precept, that you may lead the way where others 
 will follow, for so long as the men and women of the 
 world are given over to an insane struggle for wealth 
 and power, so long will the earth be cursed with 
 poverty and want, vice and crime, and all the im¬ 
 measurable miseries that follow in their wake. To 
 efface forever these evils this Order was founded. 
 
 We must teach the children of men to cease their 
 struggle for the personal possession of great wealth. 
 Mankind are brethren and joint heirs to the whole 
 earth, an estate so vast, that light and reasonable 
 labor on it by each, will bring plenty and comfort for 
 
 all, provided none seek to grasp more than their 
 rightful share. 
 
 There are those who refuse to listen to the voice of 
 reason and justice and blinded by avarice and greed 
 still strive to grasp a vast and evil power over the 
 lives and liberties of their fellow beings. They would 
 perpetuate the ancient and wrongful systems which 
 
subject the mass of toilers to a system of wage slavery 
 for the aggrandizement of the wealthy, powerful and 
 privileged few. 
 
 These systems of industrial, social and political 
 wrong and injustice reduce the masses of toilers to 
 degrading slavish toil and ignorance, while they make 
 the privileged few selfish, cruel and merciless in their 
 treatment of their fellow men. 
 
 The power of the wealthy and privileged classes is 
 a giant force which gives no quarter to those who 
 oppose it. Like a vast and awful tyrant it hangs a 
 threatening sword ov6r the world, paralyzing with 
 fear nearly all who would strive to set humanity free. 
 
 When entering the Degree of the Philosopher’s 
 Stone you will place yourself in the ranks of earth’s 
 chosen heroes. 
 
 They are souls that stood alone, 
 
 While the men they agonized for hurled the 
 contumelious stone, 
 
 Stood serene, and down the future saw the 
 golden beam incline 
 
 To the side of perfect justice mastered by their 
 faith divine, 
 
 By one man’s plain truth to manhood and to 
 God’s supreme design. 
 
 You will fear not to take your stand on the side of 
 justice and right for the poor. Be faithful and do 
 what work you can, bravely remembering that— 
 
 When a deed is done for freedom 
 Through the broad earth’s aching breast 
 Buns a thrill of joy pathetic 
 Trembling on from east to west. 
 
 And the slave where ere he cowers 
 Feels the soul within him climb 
 To the awful verge of manhood 
 As the energy sublime, 
 
 As a century bursts full blossomed 
 On the thorny stem of time. 
 
 Through the walls of hut and palace 
 Shoots the instantaneous thro, 
 
 While the travail of the ages 
 Wrings earth’s systems to and fro. 
 
 At the birth 6f each new era 
 With a recognizing start, 
 
 Nation wildly looking at nation 
 Standing with mute lips apart. 
 
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 He who worships at the shrine of party would 
 profane the alter of liberty. 
 
 It becomes every one who would preserve the 
 priceless heritage of the past and enable us to hand | 
 down to our posterity those glorious gains, the gar¬ 
 nered fruits from the victories won by the heroes of 
 
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 liberty in bygone times, to strive for a revival of the 
 spirit of independence. 
 
 We must seek to abolish war and set our faces like 
 flint against all preparations for war. Let us seek to 
 spread universal peace like a soft mantel over the 
 world. Then will culture climb the mountains and 
 prosperity and plenty smile within the valleys of all 
 the earth. 
 
 We shall abolish utterly child labor. Remember¬ 
 ing that the children are the most sacred trust com¬ 
 mitted to our charge. Let us provide that the 
 young mind and body of each one shall be permitted 
 to bloom and grow amid the sacred surroundings of 
 liberty and love, and so shape our institutions that 
 each child born into the world shall have his right 
 fully recognized to an equal share of the earth and of 
 the best of the earth for his or her use. 
 
 This work well done we may hope that work of 
 those we educate will so uplift humanity, so brighten 
 and purify the lives of men that “the prison and 
 the gallows shall no longer curse the ground.” 
 
 The span of human life is a short one. Let us 
 teach our brethren that every moment of that life 
 
 should be free from the stain of evil thought or act, 
 and that we should each seek in our little life to 
 
 light the small circle round about us so far as our 
 influence can reach with the lamp of human kind¬ 
 ness, love and labor, hope and happiness. 
 
 We shall teach and practice unselfishness. Let us 
 remember— 
 
 He's true to God whose true to man 
 Where wrong is done 
 
 To the weakest and the humblest 
 ’Neath the all embracing sun; 
 
 And they are slaves most base, ^ 
 
 Whose love of right 
 
 Is for themselves and not for all the race. 
 
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 We regard as sacred, and we shall seek to secure 
 and protect all just property rights. But we believe 
 that every little babe within its cradle is more sacred 
 than boxes of bonds or bags of gold, and all so-called 
 vested rights of property must yield to the rights of 
 the weakest and the humblest human being to a 
 healthy happy life earned in infancy by the reason¬ 
 able labor of parents hands and in maturity by each 
 ones faithful performance or his fair share of the 
 honest work of the world. 
 
 Science is] the collection and orderly arrangement 
 of facts bearing on any subject. To aid in the pro¬ 
 gress of science, the spread of human knowledge and 
 the general increase of intelligence are among the 
 most important works for members of this Degree to 
 engage in. Iiemember the injunction laid upon you 
 by the Local Assembly to regard ignorance as the 
 great enemy of mankind. 
 
 Know thyself, and having acquired a clear com¬ 
 prehension of the work in life you are naturally best 
 fitted to perform, perfect yourself in it and aid in 
 gathering into orderly arrangement for the instruc¬ 
 tion of yourself and your brothers all known useful 
 facts connected therewith. 
 
 Such new discoveries or inventions as you may 
 make, seek not to monopolize for your own selfish 
 gain but rather follow the generous example of the 
 noblest of the professions and make your discoveries 
 the common property of all your brethern. For so 
 shall you make all mankind your willing debtors and 
 faithful friends for life. 
 
 Show thus to all that you fear not to face the 
 future even with hands empty of wealth, so long as 
 you live among those to whom your love and labor 
 have been and will be freely given. 
 
 The philosopher knows that the satisfaction of our 
 material wants and needs should only require a small 
 part of our labor, and that to expend all our efforts 
 in the getting of wealth to gratify our material wants 
 inevitably tends to develop the animal nature at the 
 
expense of the moral and intellectual life, and event¬ 
 ually to degrade and destroy that higher part of 
 human nature through which alone it is possible to 
 develop the race to a higher and better civilization. 
 Every philosopher should know that there is still this 
 difference between man and all other animals—he is 
 the only animal whose desires increase as they are 
 fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. The 
 wants of every other living thing are uniform and 
 fixed. The ox of to-day aspires to no more than did 
 the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of 
 the English Channel who poises himself above the 
 swift steamer, wants no better food or lodging than 
 the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caeser’s 
 galleys first grated on a British beach. Of all that 
 nature offers them be it ever so abundant, all living 
 things save man can only take, and only care for, 
 enough to supply wants which are definite and fixed. 
 The only use they can make of additional supplies or 
 additional opportunities is to multiply. 
 
 But not so with man. No sooner are his animal 
 wants satisfied, than new wants arise. Food he wants 
 first, as does the beast; shelter next as does 
 the beast; and these given, his reproductive 
 instincts asserts their sway, as do those of the 
 beast. But here man and beast part company. The 
 beast never goes further; the man has but set his 
 feet on the first step of an infinite progression—a pro¬ 
 gression upon which the beast never enters; a pro¬ 
 gression away from and above the beast. 
 
 The demand for quantity once satisfied, he seeks 
 quality. The very desires that he has in common 
 with the beast become extended, refined, exalted. It 
 is not merely hunger, but taste, that seeks gratifica¬ 
 tion in food; in clothes, he seeks not merely comfort, 
 but adornment; the rude shelter becomes a house; the 
 undiscriminating sexual attraction begins to trans¬ 
 mute itself into subtile influences, and the hard and 
 common stock of animal life to blossom and to bloom 
 into shapes of delicate beauty. As power to gratify 
 
his wants increases, so does aspiration gnow% 'Tossing 
 into higher forms of desire, that which 1 slumbered in , 
 the plant and fitfully stirred in the beast awakes ill 
 the man. The eyes of the mind are-opened/and he, 
 longs to know. He braves the scffivchigg hpat of t'h e 
 desert and the icy blasts of the polar sea, but/not for 
 
 food; he watches all night, but it is to trace the' cir¬ 
 cling of the eternal stars. He adds toil to toil, to 
 gratify a hunger no animal has felt; to asuage a thirst 
 no beast can know. 
 
 Out upon nature, in upon himself, back through 
 the mists that shroud the past, forward into the dark¬ 
 ness that overhangs the future, turns the restless 
 desire that arises when the animal wants slumber in 
 satisfaction. Beneath things he seeks the law; he 
 would know how the globe was forged, and the stars 
 were hung, and trace to the sources the springs of life 
 And, then, as the man develops his nobler nature 
 there arises the desire higher yet-*—the passion of pas¬ 
 sions, the hope of hopes—the desire that he, even lie 
 may somehow aid in making life better and brighter 
 in destroying want and sin, sorrow and shame. He 
 masters and curbs the animal; he turns his back upon 
 the feast and renounces the place of power; he leaves 
 
 it to others to accumulate wealth, to gratify pleasant 
 tastes, to bask themselves in the warm sunshine of the 
 brief day. He works for those he never saw and 
 never can see; for a fame, or it may be but for a scant 
 justice, that can only come after the clods have rat¬ 
 tled upon his coffin lid. He toils in the advance, 
 where it is cold, and there is little cheer from men 
 and the stones are sharp and the brambles thick. 
 Amid the scoffs of the present and the sneers that 
 stab like knives, he builds for the future; he cuts the 
 trail that progressive humanity may hereafter broaden 
 into a high road. 
 
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 To better perform this work, the highest and 
 noblest the human mind can conceive of, we have 
 formed the Philosopher’s Stone Degree. 
 
 Remember that the inherent vice of all govern- 
 
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mentals their tendency to devour the substance of 
 the: people.. Use you* political power to bring the 
 government and to^keep it strictly within the control 
 of the people at all times. To this end there should 
 be but one legislative body; the veto power be taken 
 from the executive and restored to the people- The 
 initiative referendum and imperative mandate with 
 proportional representation in legislative bodies should 
 be made a part of the framework of the government. 
 
 The active power of the masses of those who toil 
 flows along three principal lines chiefly. 
 
 1st. In the field of industry. The production and' 
 distribution of all the useful things needed for the 
 sustenance and welfare of mankind. 
 
 2d. Their social life. The creating of a great social 
 body. To dwell within which is productive of all 
 the virtues and joys of civilized life. This social body 
 is made up of multitudes of families, homes and 
 “firesides where bloom and grow the virtues of our 
 race.” 
 
 3d. The field of political activity, wherein are 
 developed those wise laws and humane institutions 
 which shelter and protect the rights of each human 
 being against encroachment or oppression. 
 
 To give direction for the highest good and greatest 
 welfare of the race, of these great primal forces of 
 civilized life is the main work which the Order of the 
 Knights of Labor was founded to accomplish. Every 
 Philosopher is pledged particularly to aid in spread¬ 
 ing the light of truth and of intellectual liberty 
 among the masses in order that they may clearly see 
 and know the things needed to be done in order that 
 a truly beneficent civilization may spread over all the 
 earth wherein every man and woman shall do their 
 fair share of the work of the world and each shall 
 en joy the full fruits of their own toil. 
 
 Whatever is potent for evil may be made potent 
 for good. The change we propose to make would 
 destroy the conditions that distort impulses in them¬ 
 selves beneficent, and would transmit the forces which 
 
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 now tend to disintegrate society into forces which 
 would pretend to unite and purify it. 
 
 Give labor a free field and its earnings; take for 
 the whole community that fund which the growth of 
 the community creates, in the value of land as pro¬ 
 posed in Plank V of the Preamble of Knighthood, 
 and want and the fear of want would be gone. The 
 springs of production would be set free, and the 
 enormous increase of wealth would give the poorest 
 ample comfort. Men would no more worry about 
 finding employment than they worry about finding 
 air to breathe; they need have no more care about 
 physical necessities than do the lilies of the field. 
 The progress of science, the march of invention, the 
 diffusion of knowledge, would bring their benefits to 
 all. 
 
 With this abolition of want and the fear of want, 
 the admiration of riches would decay, and men would 
 seek the respect and approbation of their fellows in 
 other modes than by the acquisition and display of 
 wealth. In this way there would be brought to the 
 management of public affairs and the administration 
 of common funds, the skill, the attention, the fidelity 
 and integrity that can now only be secured for private 
 interests, and a railroad or gas works might be 
 operated on public account, not only more economic¬ 
 ally and efficiently than as at present, under joint 
 stock management, but as econically and efficiently 
 as would be possible under a single ownership. The 
 prize of the Olympian games, that called forth the 
 most strenuous exertions of all Greece, was but a 
 wreath of wild olive; for a bit of ribbon men have 
 over and over again performed services no money 
 could have bought. 
 
 Short-sighted is the philosophy which counts on 
 
 selfishness as the master motive of human action. It 
 
 is blind to facts of which the world is full. It sees 
 not the present, and reads not the past aright. If 
 
 you would move men to action, to what shall you 
 appeal? Not to their pockets, but to their patriot¬ 
 ism; not to selfishness, but to sympathy. Self-interest 
 
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 is, as it were, a mechanical force—potent, it is true; 
 capable of large and wide results. But there is in 
 human nature what may be likened to a chemical 
 force, which melts and fuses and overwhelms; to 
 which nothing seems impossible. “All that a man 
 hath will he give for his life”—that is self-interest. 
 But in loyalty to higher impulses men will give even 
 life. 
 
 It is not selfishness that enriches the annals of 
 
 every people with heroes and saints. It is not sel¬ 
 fishness that on every page of the world’s history 
 
 bursts out in sudden splendor of noble deeds or sheds 
 the soft radiance of benignant lives. It was not sel¬ 
 fishness that turned Gautama’s back to his royal 
 home or bade the Maid of Orleans lift the sword from 
 the alter; that held the three hundred in the Pass of 
 Thermopylae, or gathered into Winkelried’s bosom 
 the sheaf of spears; that chained Vincent de Paul to 
 the bench of the galley, or brought little starving 
 children during the Indian famine tottering to the 
 relief stations with yet weaker starvelings in their 
 arms. Call it religion, patriotism, sympathy, the 
 enthusiasm for humanity, or the love of God—give 
 it what name you will; there is yet a force which over¬ 
 comes, and drives out selfishness; a force which is the 
 electricity of the moral universe; a force beside which 
 all others are weak. Everywhere that men have 
 lived it has shown its power, and to-day, as ever, the 
 world is full of it. To be pitied is the man who has 
 never seen and never felt it. Look around, among 
 common men and women, amid the care and the 
 struggle of daily life in the jar of the noisy street 
 and amid the squalor where want hides—every here 
 and there is the darkness lighted with the tremulous 
 play of its lambent flames. He who has not seen it 
 has walked with shut eyes. He who looks may 
 see, as says Plutarch, that “the soul has a principle of 
 kindness in itself, and is born to love, as well as to 
 perceive, think, or remember.” 
 
 And this force of forces—that now goes to waste or 
 
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 assumes perverted forms—we may use for the 
 strengthening and building up and ennobling ot 
 society, if we but will, just as we now use physical 
 forces that once seemed but powers of destruction 
 All we have to do is to but give it freed om-and scope. 
 The wrong that produces inequality; the wrong that 
 in the midst of abundance tortures men with want or 
 harries them with the fear of want; that stunts them 
 physically, degrades them intellectually, and distorts 
 them morally, is what alone prevents harmonious 
 social development. 
 
 To love justice, to long for the right, to love mercy, 
 to pity the suffering, to assist the weak, to forget 
 wrongs and remember benefits—to love the truth, to 
 be sincere, to utter honest words, to love liberty, to 
 wage relentless war against slavery in all its forms, to 
 love wife and child and friend, to make a happy 
 home, to love the beautiful in art, in nature; to culti¬ 
 vate the mind; to be familiar with the mighty 
 thoughts that genius has expressed, the noble deeds 
 of all the world, to cultivate courage and cheerful¬ 
 ness, to make others happy, to fill life with the splen¬ 
 dor of generous acts, the warmth of loving words, to 
 discard error, to destroy prejudice, to receive new 
 truths with gladness; to cultivate hope; to see the 
 calm beyond the storm, the dawn beyond the night; 
 to do the best that can be done and then to be 
 . resigned—this is one of the secrets of the Philosopher 
 Stone. 
 
 Hope is the consolation of the world. The wan¬ 
 derers hope for home. Hope builds the house and 
 plants the flowers and fills the air with song. 
 
 The sick and suffering hope for health. Hope 
 gives them health and paints the roses in their cheeks. 
 
 The lonely, the forsaken, hope for love. Hope 
 brings the lover to their arms. They feel the kisses 
 on their eager lips. 
 
 The poor in the tenements and huts, in spite of 
 rags and hunger hope for comforts. 
 
 The dying hopes that death is but another birth, 
 
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 and love leans above the pallid face and whispers, 
 ‘‘We shall meet again.” 
 
 And so let us hope and strive to bring the day 
 when this poor earth on which we live, may be a per¬ 
 fect world—a world without a crime—without a tear. 
 
 W. M. I will now instruct you in the secret work 
 of this degree. 
 
 [The W. M. then gives the necessary instructions, after which 
 he will say:] 
 
 To the careful consideration of the ways and 
 means best adapted to carry to success the purposes 
 of the Philosopher’s Stone Degree we will now 
 address ourselves and you having by faithful service 
 earned the right may now participate in all our 
 deliberations and work. 
 
 The Chapter will now be in recess to enable the 
 members to personally greet our new Brother. 
 
 -A A- 
 
 
CLOSING. 
 
 W. M. The hour for closing this communication of 
 the Philosopher’s Stone has arrived. Action must 
 follow counsel. We may not always enjoy the com¬ 
 pany and counsel of the chosen spirits of the Philoso¬ 
 pher’s Stone. Let us the more earnestly labor to 
 spread its teachings so that the elevating communion 
 of the Degree may the more frequently be enjoyed 
 by ourselves and all who may earn the privilege. 
 Forth then into all the walks of human life let us go 
 with cheerfuller hearts and higher courage born of 
 inspiring counsel we have just now shared. Our 
 paths part at the Phylon. To some our parting may 
 be for years, but to none can it be forever. Some¬ 
 where, some time shall the muster roll be called 
 again and every one respond. 
 
 Out into the world to carry on the war against 
 wrong and ignorance bearing high the torch of truth 
 and the white baton of brotherhood. No matter how 
 great the odds against which we strive, though the 
 army of unright is encamped from pole to pole the 
 just man knoweth the road to victory. 
 
 W. M. Observe your Magistrate. 
 
 [W. M. Gives closing sign.l 
 
 W. M. We close by invoking the blessing of Peace 
 ► and Prosperity to the Faithful. 
 
 * * strokes. 
 
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS, 
 
 [The Installing Officer (who must be deputized by the G. M. 
 W.) being in the Vestibule, will give the usual alarm, and 
 
 when answered, will announce himself as-Tbe Installing 
 
 Officer for the purpose of installing the officers elect of this 
 Chapter-] 
 
 S. Worthy Magistrate, the Installing Officer, for 
 the purpose of Installing the officers elect of this 
 Chapter. 
 
 [The W. M. will raise the Chapter by * * * * of the 
 
 baton.] 
 
 W. M. Admit the Installing Officer that he may 
 perform the work given him to do. 
 
 [When the Installing Officer is admitted he will advance to 
 the center and say:] 
 
 I. 0. Worthy Magistrate I appear with you at this 
 time for the purpose of installing the officers-elect of 
 this Chapter. Have all taxes due the General 
 Assembly been paid, and is the receipt of the General 
 Secretary-Treasurer for the same now in possession 
 of this Chapter. Are the officers-elect free from 
 all charges of whatever kind? Are they now ready 
 to be installed, and is this Chapter willing that they 
 should be placed in charge of the respective offices to 
 which they have been elected? 
 
 t. 
 
 W. M. Worthy Installing Officer all taxes due the 
 General Assembly have been paid, the receipts for 
 the same is now in possession of this Chapter; the 
 officers elect are ready to be installed, and this 
 Chapter is willing that they should be placed in 
 charge of their respective offices. 
 
 I. O. Worthy Magistrate you will direct the pres 
 ent officers of this Chapter to surrender their offices 
 m order that their successors in office may be in¬ 
 stalled. 
 
W. M. The officers of this Chapter will surrender 
 their offices in order that your successors in office may 
 be installed. 
 
 [The Installing Officer then approaches the Seat of Wisdom, 
 and the Worthy Magistrate will say:] 
 
 W. M. Worthy Installing Officer receive from me 
 this emblem of my authority over this Chapter. 
 
 [Hands over baton.] 
 
 Also the warrant under which this Chapter is 
 
 held. 
 
 [Hands over warrant.] 
 
 Also the rituals, books, papers and other propeity 
 of the Order that were committed to my charge at my 
 installation, or that have come into my possession 
 since that time. 
 
 [Hands over rituals, books, papers, etc-.] 
 
 And finally, I surrender to vou the Seat of Wis- 
 dom which I have endeavored to fill to the full extent 
 of my ability. 
 
 [The Recorder will then advance to the Seat of Wisdom and 
 say:] 
 
 R. Worthy Installing Officer receive from me the 
 Records, seal, and all other books and papers of the 
 Order committed to my charge at my installation 
 or that have come into my possession since that time 
 
 [Hands over records, seal, books, papers, etc.] 
 
 \ 
 
 [The I. O. then gives * * strokes of the baton and the 
 
 Chapter will be seated.] 
 
 I. O. The Recorder will advance and read from 
 the records the names of those who have been elected 
 to fill the offices of this Chapter, who, as their names 
 are called, will advance to within four paces of, and 
 facing the Seat of Wisdom, the Worthy Magistrate 
 elect on the right, and the other officers will take 
 positions in line according to rank. 
 
 [The Recorder will then advance and read the names of those 
 elected to the various offices, who will, as their names are 
 
 called, advance and form in line as directed by the Installing 
 Officer.] 
 
 [The Installing Officer will then say:] 
 
 I. O. Do each of you accept the office to which the 
 
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 members of this Chapter have elected you to? 
 
 [Officers elect will responds 
 
 I do. 
 
 I. O. Worthy Magistrate-elect, you will step for- < 
 ward and place yourself in the attitude in which you 
 were obligated as a member of this Degree, and repeat 
 the following obligation: 
 
 o o 
 
 [The Installing Officer will raise the Chapter.] 
 
 OBLIGATION OF WORTHY MAGISTRATE. 
 
 I,-, do solemnly pledge my honor as a 
 
 man and Knight of Labor, that I will faithfully per¬ 
 form the duties of my office to the fullest extent of 
 my ability. I will preserve order in this Chaptei 
 and enforce a due observance of the laws of this 
 Order at all times. I will endeavor to preserve har¬ 
 mony among my associates in this Chapter and incul¬ 
 cate the great principles of Knighthood. I will 
 sacredly guard and turn over to my successor, or to 
 any other person legally authorized to receive them, 
 all books and other property of the Order and of this 
 Chapter that may be intrusted to my keeping. And 
 all my official acts will be in harmony with the laws and 
 teachings of this Order, and should this Chapter 
 cease to work during my incumbency of this office I 
 will use every effort to place all property of this 
 Chapter in the custody of the General Secretary- 
 Treasurer, To all of which I again pledge my 
 honor. 
 
 I. O. My Brother you are now about to enter upon 
 a very important duty—that of presiding over the 
 deliberations of this Chapter. Be faithful to your 
 obligations, be loyal to the Principles of Knighthood, 
 and prove by the record that you will make that the 
 honor has been worthily bestowed. You will now be 
 seated on my right. 
 
 J O 
 
 I. O. Worthy Vice Magistrate elect, you will step 
 forward and place yourself in the attitude in which 
 you were obligated as a member of this Degree and 
 repeat the following obligation: 
 
OBLIGATION OF VICE MAGISTRATE. 
 
 I,-, do solemnly pledge my honor as 
 
 a man and Knight of Labor, that I will faithfully 
 perform the duties of my office to the fullest extent of 
 my ability, and in case of my succession to the Seat of 
 Wisdom I Avill be bound by the obligation imposed 
 on the occupant of that position, to the faithful per¬ 
 formance, of all which I again pledge my honor. 
 
 I. O. It will be your duty to assist the Worthy 
 Magistrate of this Chapter, and occupy his position 
 and perform the duties of his office during his ab¬ 
 sence. Be faithful to the trust thus imposed. You 
 will now accompany me to your station. 
 
 I. O. Recorder elect, you will step forward and 
 place yourself in the attitude in which you were 
 obligated as a member of this Degree and repeat the 
 following obligation: 
 
 OBLIGATION OF RECORDER. 
 
 I,-, do solemnly pledge my honor as 
 
 a Knight of Labor that I will faithfully perform the 
 duties of my office in accordance with the laws and 
 regulations made for the government of the same. I 
 will keep a true record of the transactions of this 
 Chapter. I will keep a true and faithful account 
 between this Chapter and its members,and turn over 
 all moneys received by me to my successor, or to any 
 other person legally authorized to receive it, except 
 such as I have been authorized to pay out by vote of 
 this Chapter. I will sacredly guard the records, 
 books and papers that may come into my possession, 
 and surrender the same to any person legally author¬ 
 ized to receive them, when called upon to do so. To 
 the faithful performance of all which I again pledge 
 my honor. 
 
 I. O. It will be your duty to keep accurate minutes 
 of the transactions of this Chapter. To keep a true 
 and faithful account between this Chapter and its 
 members and pay no moneys except when authorized 
 to do so by vote of this Chapter. To read all com- 
 
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 munications and preserve them for future reference. 
 Yours is an important trust. Let the records prove 
 that it was well founded in you. You will now 
 accompany me to your station. 
 
 I. O. Investigator elect, you will step forward and 
 place yourself in the attitude in which you were 
 obligated as a member of this Degree and repeat the 
 following obligation. 
 
 OBLIGATION OF INVESTIGATOR. 
 
 I,-, do solemnly pledge my honor as 
 
 a Knight of Labor that I will faithfully perform the 
 duties of my office to the fullest extent of my ability 
 so to do. I will carefully examine all petitions and 
 petitioners for membership in this Chapter and will 
 at all times prevent the admission of unworthy per¬ 
 sons to a seat or to membership herein if in my 
 power so to do. I will devote all the attention 
 possible to the study of economics, and plans how 
 best to secure the fullest realization of the 
 hopes of the revered Founders of the Order, for 
 the uplifting of the poor but honest toilers, and to 
 secure for them the full enjoyment of the results of 
 their labor, and will present such matters to my asso¬ 
 ciates herein as may tend to bring about those much 
 needed conditions. 
 
 I. O. Your obligation points out to you the im¬ 
 portant duties which you will be expected to fulfill to 
 the extent of your ability so to do. If you perform 
 your duties faithfully and well the results must be far 
 reaching towards the ultimate object in view. Prove 
 yourself worthy of the chief place in this Council of 
 Philosophers. You will now accompany me to your 
 station. 
 
 I. O. Sentinel and Guide elect, you will step for 
 ward and place yourselves in the attitude in which 
 you were obligated as members of this Degree, and 
 repeat the following obligation: 
 
2; 
 
 OBLIGATIONS OF SENTINEL AND GUIDE. 
 
 I,-, do solemnly pledge my honor as 
 
 a Knight of Labor that I will faithfully perform the 
 duties of my office as required by the laws and 
 usages of the Order promulgated for the government 
 of Chapters of this Degree. 
 
 I. O.—It is the duty of the Sentinel to guard care¬ 
 fully the Phylon of this Chapter so as to prevent the 
 admission of any person not entitled. Be vigilant at 
 all times in the performance of your duty. 
 
 It is the duty of the Guide to assist at the initia¬ 
 tion of persons properly qualified, and duly elected 
 to membership in this Chapter and perform such 
 other duties as the Worthy Magistrate, or this Chapter 
 may direct. 
 
 You will now accompany me to your stations. 
 
 [The Installing Officer will then address the Worthy Magistrate as 
 follows: 
 
 I. O. Worthy Magistrate I am now about to pre¬ 
 sent to you the warrant under which this Chapter is 
 held, and the rituals and secret work belonging to this 
 Degree. You must never allow any person not a 
 member of this Degree and in good standing to read 
 them. You must never lend them to be taken from 
 your presence, except in case of your inability to be 
 present at the meeting of your Chapter, and in that 
 case only to the Vice Magistrate. You must never 
 make a copy of them either in whole or in part, or 
 suffer it to be done by others. 
 
 Do you agree to the instructions thus imposed? 
 
 W. M. I do unreservedly. 
 
 An affirmative answer is necessary or the warrant, rituals, etc., can¬ 
 not be delivered. 
 
 | The Installing Officer then hands over warrant, etc.l 
 
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 I. O. Recorder, I now present to you the seal^ 
 records, and other books and papers belonging to your 
 office. Guard them in accordance with the provis¬ 
 ions of your obligation. 
 
 I. O. Worthy Magistrate, I now commend to your 
 keeping this emblem of your authority and control 
 over this Chapter. Never allow it to become an in¬ 
 strument of oppression. Remember that it is the 
 symbol of brotherhood while an emblem of authority. 
 
 [Hands over baton.] 
 
 PROCLAMATION. 
 
 I. O. And now by the authority in me vested, I 
 
 declare the officers of this Chapter No.-, legally 
 
 installed for the term ending. 
 
 and entitled to work under the warrant just commit 
 ted to the care of the Worthy‘Magistrate. 
 
 [The W. M. will then give * * of the baton and the 
 
 Chapter will be seated. 
 
 The Installing Officer may then address the Chapter on the 
 needs of the hour if time will permit.] 
 
 [The officers will be all elected by majority vote at the last 
 meeting of the year, and installed the first meeting of the new 
 year. Old officers hold over until their successors are installed. 
 The Installing Officer will have a special warrant issued and 
 signed by the G. M. W.] 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 G.—Guide. 
 
 I. —I n vestigator. 
 
 I, O.—Installing Officer. 
 
 R — Recorder. 
 
 S.—Sentinel. 
 
 V. M.—Vice Magistrate. 
 
 W. M.—Worthy Magistrate. 
 
Qualifications for Membership 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DEGREE 
 
 OF THE * 
 
 Philosopher’s Stone. 
 
 Adopted By the General Assembly at Louisville, Ky,, 
 November 9th to 17th, 1897. 
 
 The Philosopher’s Stone is a Degree of honor and 
 merit, and only those members of the Order of the 
 Knights of Labor, who have done specially valuable ser¬ 
 vices for the Order are eligible to membership. The 
 faithful performance of any of the following services shall 
 render a member eligible to be initiated into the Philoso¬ 
 pher Stone Degree: 
 
 1. Any member bringing into the Order not less than 
 ten new members within one year. All candidates must 
 be able to repeat the officers’ charges and instruction in 
 signs and secret work of a Local Assembly, and for two 
 years at least next preceding his application must have 
 been a member of the Order. The Local lor which the 
 new members have been brought shall pay the price of 
 the Jewel of the Degree for the new member. 
 
 2. Any member who shall have organized two or more 
 Local Assemblies within one year, paying full charter 
 fee. The Jewel to be furnished by the General Assembly. 
 
 3. Any member who has not missed attendance at a 
 meeting of his Local Assembly for one year, nor allowed 
 himself to fall in arrears in his dues or assessments, and 
 w ho pays the price of the Jewel; is able to instruct in ihe 
 
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 secret work of a Local Assembly, and has been faithful 
 in the performance of his duties as an officer or member 
 of liis Local. 
 
 4. Any member who sends in fifteen new yearly cash 
 subscribers to the Journal of the Knights of Labor in one 
 year; Jewel to be furnished by the General Assembly. 
 
 5. Any member who has performed some special and 
 distinguished service for the Order that in the judgment 
 of the General Executive Board entitles him to receive 
 the Degree. 
 
 6. In the above rules the expression “within one year” 
 covers the year from any one regular session of the Gen¬ 
 eral Assembly until the next regular session. All the 
 above described eligible candidates for admission to the 
 Philosophers Stone Degree must furnish a certificate 
 signed and sealed by the Master Workman and Record¬ 
 ing Secretary of their Local and District Assembly that 
 they have complied with one of the above rules and all 
 other laws of the Order, and are at the time members of 
 the Order in good standing. 
 
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Government of Chapters and Members of the 
 Degree of the Philosopher’s Stone. 
 
 NOVEMBER 9th to 17th, 1897. 
 
 Adopted By the General Assembly at Louisville, Ky., 
 November 9th to 17th, 1897- 
 
 Section 1. A Local Chapter of the Philosopher’s Stone 
 Degree may be formed upon the application of four 
 members in such locality as specified in their application, 
 upon such application, being made by said four or more 
 members of this degree, a charter shall be issued. 
 
 Section 2. All charters for chapters of the Philosopher’s 
 Stone Degree shall be signed and issued by the General 
 Master Workman and General Secretary-Treasurer under 
 the authority of the General Executive Board, for which 
 a fee of $5 shall be charged. 
 
 Section 3. The charter supplies shall consist of charter, 
 seal and ritual, together with such other supplies as the 
 General Executive Board may approve of. 
 
 Section 4. This degree shall be conferred upon those 
 members earning the same in such manner, at such time, 
 and by such person, as the General Master Workman 
 may designate. 
 
 Section 5. Chapters of this degree may charge such 
 dues and initiation fee as the chapter in their judgment 
 may decide not to exceed $5 per annum for each member. 
 
 Section 6. The General Master Workman shall make a 
 pass-word for this degree, which shall be conferred upon 
 the member at his initiation, by the member authorized 
 by the General Master Workman to confer the degree. 
 
 Section 7. Satisfactory proof of membership in this 
 degree shall entitle any member to take up membership 
 in any chapter of this degree by subscribing to the rules 
 and regulations of such chapter, provided that no mem¬ 
 ber will be permitted to hold membership in more than 
 one chapter at the same time. 
 
 Section 8. Reports shall be made annually to the Gen¬ 
 eral Assembly by each chapter of this degree, showing 
 the names of members added during the year, also the 
 work done for the Order by members of this degree. 
 
 Section 9. Any member covered with the Philosopher’s 
 
Stone Degree, who gliall be suspended by his Local c 
 District Assembly, or otherwise separated from the Orde 1 
 shall lose his membership in any chapter to which i 
 may be attached. 
 
 Section 10. Any member of the Philosopher’s Stor 
 Degree convicted by the General Executive Board ci 
 conduct unbecoming a true Knight of Labor, shall b 
 certified to the chapter to which he belongs, with a cop; 
 of the charges for such penalty and punishment as the; 
 may, by majority vote, decide. 
 
 Section 11. Complaint against members of the Philos! 
 plier’s Stone Degree must be made in writing and signe; 
 by at least two members of the degree in good.standing 
 to the General Executive Board. A copy of which, witlj 
 out names attached, shall be furnished to the membd 
 complained of by the General Executive Board at leasj 
 ten days before the complaint is to be heard, and a wrij 
 ten defense will be considered. 
 
 Section 12. Members of the Philosopher’s Stone Degrd 
 not connected with any chapter, and against whom con 
 plamt is made, and conviction secured before the Genera 
 Executive Board, shall be certified for punishment to tl 
 chapter nearest the locality in which the member reside 
 
 Section 13. The names and addresses of every membd 
 of the Philosopher’s Stone Degree convicted by the GeJ 
 eral Executive Board shall be sent to every chapter < 
 this Degree, a list which must be kept in every chapter. I 
 
 Section 14. A member of the Philosopher’s Storj 
 Degree convicted by the General Executive Board, arj 
 certified to the chapter of this Degree shall be debarnj 
 from entering any of their meetings. 
 
 Section 15. Reinstatement into the Philosopher’s Stoa 
 Degree shall not be considered until the chapter imposirl 
 the penalty have been notified, and an opportunity givtj 
 them to be heard. 
 
 Section 16. All members of the General Assembj 
 shall, by virtue of their membership in the Geneil 
 Assembly, upon payment of the required sum, be cloth! 
 with the Philosopher’s Stone Degree. 
 
 Section 17. Chapters of this Degree shall have ta 
 right to make such laws as they may see fit, not conflij 
 ing with the foregoing law r s.