Behavior.

Behavior. Freemasonry being an ethical and moral order necessarily treats of behavior in all degrees. This teaching began with the Gothic Constitutions (q.v.), which always contained charges respecting morals and good conduct, those old charges being greatly expanded in the Constitutions of 1723, where the whole of Article VI was given over to the subject of Behavior,--1. In the Lodge while constituted; 2. After the Lodge is over and the Brethren not gone; 3. When Brethren meet without Strangers, but not in a Lodge formed; 4. In the presence of Stran­gers not Masons; 5. At Home in your Neighborhood; and 6. Toward a strange Brother. For the charges given under these six heads, see Constitutions of 1723.