The Golden Themis

goal: from these inconveniences these laws are free, both in quality and in number. Also, each one will appear to look to the utility of the same society, and of others, from their clarification. They are entirely voluntary and have the force of a plebiscite, since all have consented to them as possible and reasonable. They are handed down in this series:

I. That none of them going abroad should profess any other thing than the cure of diseases, and that for free.
II. That no one should be compelled, by reason of the Fraternity entered into, to use any certain kind of clothing, but should accommodate himself to the custom of the region.
III. That each of the brothers is bound to appear every year on the day of C. in the place of the Holy Spirit original: "S. Spiritus", or to declare the causes of his absence by letter.
IV. That each brother ought to choose a capable and suitable person to succeed him after death.
V. That the word R. C. be to them in place of a symbol, character, or seal.
VI. That this Fraternity ought to be hidden for one hundred years.

Into these articles they bind and confederate themselves with one another most sacrosanctly.

From all of which we conclude in general that they yield to no one’s prejudice, nor do they inflict injury, but tend directly to their end, which is the glory of God and the utility of the neighbor; which, so that it may shine forth more clearly, we will lead them through kinds of causes and circumstances.

Where first the Author of them must be considered, whether he had the power to prescribe such Rules