Personal Charity: the brother at the door

The published Masonic and Judeo-Christian preference for relief given anonymously, so the receiver is not indebted and the giver is not aggrandized. Maimonides' published eight levels of charity (12th century, widely cited) rank anonymous-to-anonymous (neither knows the other) at the top, with the receiver becoming self-sufficient as the highest level of all. The Craft's published Almoner system carries the same preference: the Lodge knows; the Almoner knows; the brothers around the table need not.