Catechism First Degree 1166

Question 1

(1) WM: Brother …, are you ready for your examination?

Answer 1

I am

Question 2

1. Whence came you?

Answer 2

From a lodge of the Saints John of Jerusalem.

Question 3

2. What came you here to do?

Answer 3

To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry.

Question 4

3. You are a Mason then. I presume?

Answer 4

I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.

Question 5

4. What makes you a Mason?

Answer 5

My obligation.

Question 6

5. How do you know yourself to be a Mason?a am

Answer 6

By having been often tried, never denied, and being ready to be tried again.

Question 7

6. How shall I know you to be a Mason?

Answer 7

By certain signs, a token, a word and the points of my entrance.

Question 8

7. What are signs?

Answer 8

Right angles, horizontals and perpendiculars.

Question 9

8. Give me a sign.

Question 10

9. Has it an allusion?

Answer 10

It has, to the penalty of my obligation.

Question 11

10. What is a token?

Answer 11

A certain friendly an brotherly grip whereby a Mason may know another in the dark as well as the light.

Question 12

11. Give me a token. I hele.

Answer 12

I conceal.

Question 13

12. What do you conceal?

Answer 13

All the secrets of Masons to which this token alludes.

Question 14

13. What is this?

Answer 14

A grip.

Question 15

14. Of what?

Answer 15

Of an Entered Apprentice Mason.

Question 16

15. Has it a name?

Answer 16

It has.

Question 17

16. will you give it to me?

Answer 17

I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it.

Question 18

17. How will you dispose of it?

Answer 18

I will letter and halve it with you.

Question 19

18Letter and begin.

Answer 19

No, you begin.

Question 20

19. You must begin.

Answer 21

In a regularly constituted lodge of Masons