The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS 68. Special Profess-Houses will be established for their convenience, should they wish to take advantage of them. 69. The Order offers great social advantages to its mem- bers, bringing them as it does into constant association with men and women of high rank. 70. The Order offers extraordinary opportunities to its members in their trades, businesses, or professions, aiding them by co-operation, and securing them clients or cus- tomers. ELEVENTH HOUSE 71. The Order offers friendship to its members, bringing together men and women of similar character, taste, and aspiration. TWELFTH HOUSE 72. The secrecy of the Order provides its members with an inviolable shroud of concealment. 73. The crime of slander, which causes so great a propor- tion of human misery, is rendered extremely dangerous, if not impossible, within the Order by a clause in the Obliga- tion of the Third Degree. 74. The Order exercises its whole power to relieve its members of any constraint to which they may be subjected, attacking with vigour any person or persons who may en- deavour to subject them to compulsion, and in all other ways aiding in the complete emancipation of the Brethren from aught that may seek to restrain them from doing That Which They Will. It is to be observed that these privileges being so vast, it is incumbent upon the honour of every Brother not to abuse them, and the sponsors of any Brother who does so, as well as he himself, will be held strictly to account by the Grand 223