​FIRST. Thou shalt love God and thy honor above all things:God as the fountain of things: God as the fountain of all truth, of all justiceand of all activity: and thine honor, the only power which will oblige thee tobe truthful, just and industrious.

SECOND. Thou shalt worship God in the form which thyconscience may deem most righteous and worthy: for in thy conscience, whichcondemns thine evil deeds and praises thy good ones, speaks thy God.

THIRD. Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts which God hasgranted thee, working and studying according to thine ability, never leavingthe path of righteousness and justice, in order to attain thine own perfection,by means whereof thou shalt contribute to the progress of humanity; thus thoushalt fulfill the mission to which God has appointed thee in this life, and byso doing, thou shalt be honored, and being honored, thou shalt glorify thy God.

FOURTH. Thou shalt love thy country after God and thinehonor more than thyself: for she is the only Paradise which God has given theein this life, the only patrimony of thy race, the only inheritance of thineancestors and the only hope of thy posterity. Because of her, thou hast life, loveand interest, happiness, honor and God.

FIFTH. Thou shalt strive for the happiness of thy countrybefore thine own making of her the kingdom of reason, of justice and of labor;for if she be happy, thou, together with thy family, shalt likewise be happy.

SIXTH. Though shalt strive for the independence of thycountry: for only thou canst have any real interest in her advancement andexaltation, because of her independence constitutes thine own liberty: heradvancement, thy perfection and her exaltation, thine own glory andimmortality.

SEVENTH. Though shalt not recognize in thy country theauthority of any person who has not been elected by thee and by thy countrymen:for authority emanates from God, and as God speaks in the conscience of everyman, the person designated and proclaimed by the conscience of a whole peopleis the only one who can use true authority.

EIGHTH. Thou shalt strive for a republic and never for amonarchy in thy country: for the latter exalts one or several families andfounds a dynasty: the former makes a people worthy through reason, greatthrough liberty, and prosperous and brilliant through labor.

NINTH. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; for God hasimposed upon him, as well as upon thee, the obligation to help thee and not todo unto thee what he would not have done into him, but if thy neighbor, failingin this sacred duty, attempts against thy life, liberty, and thine interests,then thou shalt destroy and annihilate him, for the supreme law ofself-preservation prevails.

TENTH. Thou shalt consider thy countrymen more than thyneighbor; thou shalt see in him thy friend, thy brother, or at least thycomrade, with whom thou art bound by one fate, by the same joys and sorrows andcommon aspiration and interests.

Therefore, as long as national frontiers subsist, raised andmaintained by the selfishness of race and family, with thy countryman aloneshalt thou unit in perfect solidarity of purpose and interest, in order to haveforce, not only to resist the common enemy but also to attain the aims of humanlife.