IIe geste esthétique. Catalogue officiel illustré de 160 dessins du second Salon de la Rose + Croix avec la règle esthétique et les constitutions de l'ordre. 28 Mars au 30 Avril 1893

a regular prior, freely and without mental reservation; I will accomplish every order given by him in the name of the Holy Spirit, even should it force me to embrace my enemy and to leave my friend; I place myself as a sword in his hand: for the salvation and the glory of the Beautiful, the True, and of spiritual infinity."

Then the Grand Master strikes him with the cruciferous cross-bearing sword three times, raises him up and gives him the accolade: "Be a Commander and my peer, I promise you a share of all the pains, a share of all the labors, and eternal glory. So be it."

XX. — Such is the hierarchy in the three orders:
Commander.
Knight.
Squire.
Servants of works (the scribes and craftsmen).

The commanders and knights are eligible for the following temporary functions:
Provincial, centralizing the activity of the order in a country.
Prior, same office in a province.
Theor, a proconsul on a mission, a plenipotentiary.
Consul, representing the order in a city.
Dominical, the mandate-holder of the Grand Master for professions, the Noble Chapter, and the Councils.

XXI. — Each Order affiliates a brotherhood arranged thus:
Noble Chapter, the notable benefactors.
Patrician, an honorary title given freely to those of superiority.
Liegeman, who places his social function at the disposal of the order.
Affiliate, serves the order without being committed to it and as the occasion arises.
Counselor of the Order, a scholar who has promised his insights.
Arist, who adheres to the ideality through his studies or his works.

XXII. — There is as much honor in using wealth well as in enduring destitution: in order to rehabilitate the rich, the Order establishes a noble chapter, with the customary titles used in France, and attributes, with coats of arms and privileges, letters patent for baronies, viscountcies, and countships. These are earned by saving a knight from the rigor of the laws or by associating oneself through gifts or protection with the Rosicrucian, Templar, and Graalian deeds.

As for the titles of marquis and duke, they can only be titled from a land or ruin given to a moustier a monastery or cloister.

XXIII. — The Order will decree immortality to its distinguished benefactors through poetry, the brush, the chisel, and the eponymy of works.

XXIV. — Considering in this world only the Papacy and itself, the Order does not associate itself with public opinion or human justice; it judges each person according to their conduct toward the Holy Spirit and the Order, regardless of what they may be in other respects:

XXV. — In imitation of the priestly colleges of antiquity, the Order purifies criminals and raises them from despair, after they have accomplished the commanded expiation.

XXVI. — The Patriciate is an affiliation of honor that is not petitioned for.
— Liegemanship can manifest of its own accord and is only put to a test of activity.
— Affiliation depends on a first service rendered to the Order.
— Arist-ship involves either an expressed and militant sympathy or a helpfulness in erudition.
— The Council of the Order is elected according to competence in a specialty.

XXVII. — The Order is enlightened by five councils:
Scientific Council.
Artistic Council.
Literary Council.
Theological Council.

The Seneschalry comprises people of experience and high dignity, whom the Order consults in many cases: so that its ideal will may agree with the reasoned motivation of the elderly and the experienced.

XXVIII. — The Order, reforming sensitivity and acting as an adversary to sexual passion, opens to woman a career of emotion and activity by associating her as a Zealot a female member dedicated to service or a Lady of the Rose † Cross only: and under no circumstance in either the Temple or the Grail.

XXIX. — The Zealot is she who serves the sacred interests of the Order: by uniting initiative with absolute obedience.

XXX. — After a variable time, the Zealot can be received as a Lady of the Rose † Cross, if she pledges to be the servant of the Order, to follow its orders in all the details of worldly life, according to a rigorous aesthetic direction.

XXXI. — In return, the Lady of the Rose † Cross will have the