KARTILYA NG KATIPUNAN

GROUP 7
 SECTION 1

BACKGROUND
OF THE AUTHOR
UTAK NG
KATIPUNAN
• BORN IN TRONZO (TONDO)
MANILA, DECEMBER 15 , 1875
• HIS FATHER DIED AFTER HE WAS
BORN AND ADOPTED BY HIS
UNCLE , DON JOSE DIZON
UTAK NG KATIPUNAN
• PINGKIAN AND DIMASILAW
• OBTAINED THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN
COLEGIO DE SAN JUAN DE
LETRAN

• STUDIED LAW IN UST

• REMAINED LOYAL TO BONIFACIO
EVEN AFTER HIS DEATH
• DIED APRIL 16, 1899
 ANDRES
BONIFACIO
"Ama ng
Katipunan"
• BORN IN TONDO , NOVEMBER 30, 1863
• HIS PARENTS DIED WHEN WAS 14 YEARS
OLD THEN SUPPORTED HIS SIBLINGS
• START SCHOOLING AT GUILLERMO,
OSMENA
• SUPREMO, ANAK NG BAYAN,
AGAPITO BAGUMBAYAN

• PAG-IBIG SA TINUBUANG
BAYAN

• EDUCATED HIMSELF BY EXTENSIVE

READING OF BOOKS AND LEARNING
SPANISH BY HIMSELF
• MONICA (FIRST WIFE)
• GREGORIA DE JESUS (2ND WIFE)
SECTION 2 AND 3

HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
AND CONTENT
ANALYSIS
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
OF THE DOCUMENT
• The earliest reference to the Kartilya yet found is in the minutes
of a Supreme Assembly meeting held in December 1895
• The KKK’s principles and teachings, it was printed as a small
pamphlet for new members.
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
OF THE DOCUMENT
• “pahayag” will be priced at 4 kualta per copy whether it is the
KKK branches or the individual recruits who are to be
charged this amount is not clear, and nor is it known
whether the title phrase
• “To those who want to join this Katipunan”
• “To those who have just joined this Katipunan.”
 • The Kartilya was still in use
during the first phase of
the revolution, and
Bonifacio was planning to
print more copies shortly
KARTILYA before he was killed.
• It may still have been used

NG during the second phase of the

revolution, for a version

KATIPUNA
survives in the Philippine
Insurgent Records that is
stamped with the seal used by
N • Artemio Ricarte in 1899.
“Final Declaration
Admission to the
on

Katipunan” (Katapusang
pamamahayag sa pagpasok sa
K.)
originally intended
• Bonifacio seeks only to
that enumerate the duties of
his“Decalogue” Katipunan members
• Jacinto couches his primer,
should be printed four times as long, rather as
and handed to a statement of aspirations
and ethical values. 
new recruits, but • Bonifacio lists ten
he then read obligations
• Jacinto presents twelve
Jacinto’s “guiding principles” and
Kartilya and fourteen “teachings”.
decided it was
• The Kartilya resembles the declaration used in Manila’s
Masonic lodges, a declaration that had presumably been
written in Spain around 1889 when the grand order to which the
lodges were affiliated – the Gran Oriente Español -  had been
founded by Miguel Morayta
• “To those who
want to join the •  “los profanos que
Katipunan” deben inscribirse en
la Sociedad.”
The division in
the Kartilya • “Programa
between Masonica” and the
“Codigo Masonico.”
principles
(“layon”) and • “considera como
teachings(“aral”) hermanos todos los
hombres”
“ninais ng loob
 OTHER INFLUENCES TO THE
KARTILYA
• The adage that “an honorable man’s word is his bond” may be
traced back to Cervantes
• The thought that “time lost is lost forever” may have come from
Benjamin Franklin.
• A “life which is not dedicated to a great idea is useless,” declares
Rizal’s fictional insurrectionist Simoun in El Filibusterismo: “It is a
pebble lost in the field, when it should form part of some building.”
 Enlightenment’s defining
watchwords
LIBERTY(“Kalayaan
ENLIGHTENMENT ”)
(“Kaliwanagan”)
06 01

PROGRESS EQUALITY (“lahat ng

05 02 tao’y magkakapantay”)
(“Kagalingan”)

FRATERNITY(“kayon
REASON 04 03 g lahat ay
(“Katuiran”) magkakapatid”)
Kartilya ng Katipunan 
ni Emilio  Jacinto
 • Ang buhay na hindi ginugugol sa isang malaki at banal na
kadahilanan ay kahoy na walang lilim, kundi damong makamandag.

• Ang gawang magaling na nagbuhat sa paghahambog o pagpipita sa

sarili, at hindi talagang nasang gumawa ng kagalingan, ay di
kabaitan.

• Ang tunay na kabanalan ay ang pagkakawang-gawa, ang pag-ibig sa

kapwa at ang isukat ang bawat kilos, gawa't pangungusap sa
talagang Katuwiran.

• Maitim man o maputi ang kulay ng balat, lahat ng tao'y

magkakapantay; mangyayaring ang isa'y hihigtan sa dunong, sa
yaman, sa ganda...; ngunit di mahihigtan sa pagkatao.
• Ang may mataas na kalooban, inuuna ang puri kaysa pagpipita sa
sarili; ang may hamak na kalooban, inuuna ang pagpipita sa sarili
 • Huwag mong sayangin ang panahon; ang yamang nawala'y
mangyayaring magbalik; ngunit panahong nagdaan ay di na muli pang
magdadaan.

• Ipagtanggol mo ang inaapi; kabakahin ang umaapi.

• Ang mga taong matalino'y ang may pag-iingat sa bawat sasabihin;
matutong ipaglihim ang dapat ipaglihim.

• Sa daang matinik ng buhay, lalaki ang siyang patnugot ng asawa at mga

anak; kung ang umaakay ay tungo sa sama, ang pagtutunguhan ng
inaakay ay kasamaan din.

• Ang babae ay huwag mong tingnang isang bagay na libangan lamang,

kundi isang katuwang at karamay sa mga kahirapan nitong buhay;
gamitin mo nang buong pagpipitagan ang kanyang kahinaan, at
alalahanin ang inang pinagbuharan at nag-iwi sa iyong kasanggulan.

• Ang di mo ibig gawin sa asawa mo, anak at kapatid, ay huwag mong

gagawin sa asawa, anak at kapatid ng iba.