SHORT TALK BULLETIN - Vol.XI May, 1933 No.5 "Thou shalt not
remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old have set in
thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land the Lord
thy God hath given thee (Deuteronomy XIX:14). The Masons "of old
time set thine inheritance" (Masonry) certain fundamental
principles which are named as "Landmarks" as early as the
Constitutions of 1723. Men have quarreled about the stone
markers set up as boundaries for land ever since sections of the
earth were claimed as property; in like manner have Masons
differed about what are and what are not Landmarks of the Order.
In this country particularly, with forty-nine Jurisdictions,
each sovereign within its own territory, arguments about
Landmarks are never ending. This Bulletin attempts not to settle
any of these numerous controversies, but only to bring before
the average Lodge Member some of the reasons why his neighbor's
Masonic Landmarks may differ from those his own Grand Lodge may
have set up for him to follow. In 18