Beneficent Knight.

Arrangement and Decoration of the Premises.

The reception requires two separate apartments: the first is the Chapter of the Novitiates, it is upholstered in white with a red border of one and a half or two feet; the canopy and the Prefect's armchair are in red fabric, trimmed with gold fringe, the table is covered in the same manner.

Under the canopy above the head of the Prefect is an escutcheon containing the arms of the province and its motto. On both sides of the canopy, two paintings are arranged, of which the one on the right represents the emblem of the phoenix with these words: Perit ut Vivat He dies that he may live. The one on the left represents the emblem of the pelican with these words: esurientes explevit he has filled the hungry. On the Prefect's table is a 9-branched candlestick, the ritual, the Code, and the rule of the interior order; at the sides of the Prefect in the East are placed the Dignitaries of the order and of the superior chapters; on the north and south sides are the members of the Prefecture, the foreign brothers who are not Dignitaries, and all the simple Knights in the back of the apartment. Facing the Prefect are the squires arranged in one or more lines according to their number: the Master of Ceremonies is in front of them: the Secretary is at the western end of the Chapter at the extremity of the north or south side.

The other apartment is the Scottish Lodge original: "L. Ecos."; as no ceremony is to be performed there, there is neither a carpet of this class nor the torches that must accompany it. It is nevertheless not useless for this room to be very vast; it suffices that it can contain the brothers present at the ceremony and that one can make a suitable enclosure in the back behind the East. This enclosure will be separated from the Lodge by a red curtain capable of opening rapidly.

The part destined to be the Lodge must be illuminated by the 3-branched torch of the Venerable, by one candle on the table of each Warden, and by 4 others placed against the walls, of which 2 are on the north and 2 on the south; on the altar of the Venerable will be the bible, the compass, the square, the mallet, and the 3-branched torch, a form of preliminary engagement and of discretion that the Candidate will be required to pronounce and sign before passing to the rest of his reception and by which he will be inviolably bound.