But the rule is different with respect to the application of a Master Mason for membership.
A Master Mason is not restricted in his privilege of application for membership within any geographical limits.

All that is required of him is, that he should be an affiliated Mason; that is, that he should be a contributing member of a lodge, without any reference to its peculiar locality, whether near to or distant from his place of residence.

The Old Charges simply prescribe, that every Mason ought to belong to a lodge.

A Mason, therefore, strictly complies with this regulation, when he unites himself with any lodge, thus contributing to the support of the institution, and is then entitled to all the privileges of an affiliated Mason.
A rejection of the application of a Master Mason for membership by a lodge does not deprive him of the right of applying to another.

A Mason is in "good standing" until deprived of that character by the action of some competent masonic authority; and that action can only be by suspension or expulsion.