[The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert G. Mackey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Principles of Masonic Law CHAPTER II 6/7
He will not be permitted to sit in his lodge, to receive masonic instruction, or to converse with Masons on masonic subjects; nor can he again apply for advancement until the suspension or expulsion is removed by the spontaneous action of the lodge. These two proceedings work differently in another respect.
The Grand Lodge will not interfere with a subordinate lodge in compelling it to pass an Entered Apprentice; because every lodge is supposed to be competent to finish, in its own time, and its own way, the work that it has begun.
But, as the old regulations, as well as the general consent of the craft, admit that the Grand Lodge alone can expel from the rights and privileges of Masonry, and that an expulsion by a subordinate lodge is inoperative until it is confirmed by the Grand Lodge, it follows that the expulsion of the Apprentice must be confirmed by that body; and that, therefore, he has a right to appeal to it for a reversal of the sentence, if it was unjustly pronounced. Let it not be said that this would be placing an Apprentice on too great an equality with Master Masons.
His rights are dear to him; he has paid for them.
No man would become an Apprentice unless he expected, in time, to be made a Fellow Craft, and then a Master.
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