En:The Internet Mason Charge

"The Internet Mason Charge"

Source: Phoenixmasonry

The duties and charges of a Mason are well suited to the Internet, and when you are thereon, these virtues should be embraced.

• Honesty: to show the Craft as it is and how we wish it were.

• Charity: to forgive those who speak out of malice or ignorance.

• Strength: to refrain from being drawn into irrelevant arguments.

• Temperance: to moderate your passions, and not rise to taunts.

• Fidelity: to ever be mindful of your sacred obligations.

• Rectitude: to correct in ourselves what we see wrong in others.

• Tolerance: to know that others' opinions are just that, opinions.

• Piety: to understand that our opinions are just that, opinions.

• Equality: to appear neither condescending nor unduly humble.

• Courtesy: to observe the rules of proper etiquette.

• Joy: to be happy, and communicate happiness.

"Let us always remember that we are someone elses impression of Masonry."

Submitted by: Bro. K. C. Andreou

Co-Founder of The Global Phoenix Forum