[Footer: Deo duce, ferro comitante.] [Header: Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis. 13] reveal any thing that I may this day (or night) learn concerning the * *. So help me God." ADMISSION. ART. IX. Sec. 1. No one shall be presented for admission into this *, until he shall have been recommended by some friend or intimate, who _is_ a member, to the Investigating Committee, which shall be composed of the Grand Cyclops, the Grand Magi and the Grand Monk, and who shall investi- gate his antecedents and his past and present stand- ing and connections, and if after such investigation, they pronounce him competent and worthy to become a member, he may be admitted upon taking the ob- ligation required and passing through the ceremo- nies of initiation. _Provided_, That no one shall be admitted into this * who shall have not attain- ed the age of eighteen years. Sec. 2. No one shall become a member of a dis- tant * when there is a * established and in operation in his own immediate vicinity. Nor shall any one become a member of any * after he shall have been rejected by any other *. ENSIGN. ART. X. The Grand Banner of this * shall be in the form of an isosceles triangle, five feet long and three wide at the staff. The material shall be Yellow, with a Red scalloped border, about three inches in width. There shall be painted upon it, in black, a Dracovolans, or Flying Dragon[55] with the following motto inscribed above the Dragon, "QUOD SEMPER, QUOD UBIQUE, QUOD AB OMNIBUS."[56] AMENDMENTS. ART. XI. This Prescript or any part or Edicts thereof, shall never be changed except by a two- [Footer: O tempora! O mores!] [Header: Ad utrumque paratus. 14] thirds vote of the Grand Dragons of the Realms, in Convention assembled, and at which Convention the Grand Wizard shall preside and be entitled to a vote. And upon the application of a majority of the Grand Dragons, for that purpose, the Grand Wizard shall appoint the time and place for said Convention; which, when assembled, shall pro- ceed to make such modifications and amendments as it may think will advance the interest, enlarge the utility and more thoroughly effectuate the purpo- ses of the *. INTERDICTION. ART. XII. The origin, designs, mysteries and ritual of this * shall never be written, but the same shall be communicated orally. REGISTER. 1st--Dismal. 7th--Dreadful. 2nd--Dark. 8th--Terrible. 3rd--Furious. 9th--Horrible. 4th--Portentous. 10th--Melancholy. 5th--Wonderful. 11th--Mournful. 6th--Alarming. 12th--Dying. II.