expelled from his Blue Lodge, it automatically severs his connection from all other Masonic bodies. A person who has passed the first three degrees and becomes a Master Mason may visit other Blue Lodges that are not his own. A Master Mason may become either a Scottish Rite Mason, a York Rite Mason or be a member of both. After a Master Mason has become either a Scottish Rite Mason, a York Rite Mason or both, he may then join the Shrine. And become known as a Shriner Mason. Every Mason is therefore ignorant of what is said and done in the meetings of the higher degrees than his own, for entrance to them is forbidden. In a lodge meeting, there are always present one or more masons of a higher degree, often unknown as such to their brothers of the lower lodges. It is an essential duty which is laid upon the higher degrees to visit lower lodges and to inspire in them the ideas which they have themselves received from above. You as a mason know this to be true, as there are always brother masons enticing, in one degree or another, to go ever higher in search of more light. To go the path of the Scottish Rite or York Rite whichever you so desire, but he will suggest the one he is currently pushing. None can deny, that Freemasonry is a Secret Society. While in the administrative organization the management is directed from below by election,