GOVERNMENT N MEMBERSHIP

• Kataastaasang Sanggunian (Supreme Council) for the whole country


  1. President

  2. Fiscal

  3. Secretary

  4. Treasurer

  5. Comptroller
• Sangguniang Hukuman (Judicial Council)


  Decided cases involving members and quarrels between them
• Katipunan


  Nationalist secret society in the Philippines
• First Supreme Council of the Katipunan was organized


  August, 1892
• President Deodato Arellano


  First President of the Katipunan
• Andres Bonifacio


  Became president in January, 1895, assuming the title of Supremo (Supreme Head)
• Recruiting new members by "triangle system"

  1. Bonifacio formed the first triangle with Plata and Diwa

  2. Each member of the triangle katipunize two members, thereby forming new triangles
• The recruiting of members by the triangle system proved to be slow so that it was abolished in December, 1892
• Initiation of new members after December, 1892

  1. Secret initiation rites borrowed from Masonry

  2. Testing the applicant's courage and patriotism

  3. Oath to guard the secret of the society

  4. Signing name on the society register in own blood
• Symbolic names adopted by Katipunan members

  • May-Pagasa (With Hope) - Andres Bonifacio
  • Pingkian (Flint) - E. Jacinto
  • Vibora (Serpent) - Artemio Ricarte
  • Magdalo (after Santa Magdalena, patron saint of Kawit) - Emilio Aguinaldo
• Three Grades of Katipunan membership

  • First-Grade Member (katipun/associate) - Password: Anak Ng Bayan
  • Second-Grade Member (kawal/soldier) - Password: Gom-Bur-Za
  • Third-Grade Member (bayani/patriot) - Password: Rizal