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1
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As an Entered Apprentice, from whence came you?

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From a Lodge of the Holy Saints John of Jerusalem.

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What came you here to do?

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

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Then you are a Mason, I presume?

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I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.

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4
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What made you a Mason?

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My obligation.

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5
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Where were you made a Mason?

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In a just and regularly constituted Lodge of Masons.

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How do you know yourself to be a Mason?

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

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How shall I know you to be a Mason?

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

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8
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What are signs?

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Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars.

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What is a token?

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A certain friendly or brotherly grip, whereby one Mason may know another in the dark, as well as in the light.

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10
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What are the perfect points of your entrance?

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The guttural, the pectoral, the manual, and the pedal.

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11
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Where were you first prepared to be made a Mason?

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In my heart.

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12
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Where next?

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In a room adjacent to a just and regularly constituted Lodge of Masons.

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13
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How were you prepared?

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By being divested of all metallic substance, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable tow once around my neck, in which condition I was conducted to the door of a Lodge by a friend, whom I afterward found to be a brother.

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How did you know it to be a door, you being hoodwinked?

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By first meeting with resistance, and afterward gaining admission.

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How gained you admission?

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By three distinct knocks.

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16
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What was said to you from within?

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Who comes here?

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17
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Your answer?

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I, A.B. who has long been in darkness, and now seeks to be brought to light and receive a part of the rights and benefits of this Worshipful Lodge, erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, as all brothers and fellows have done before.

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18
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What were you then asked?

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If it was of my own free will and accord that I made this request, if I was worthy and well qualified, duly and truly prepared, of lawful age and properly vouched for, all of which being answered in the affirmative, I was asked by what further right or benefit I expected to gain admission.

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19
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Your answer?

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By that of being a man, free born, of good report, and well recommended.

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20
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What followed?

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I was directed to wait with patience until the Worshipful Master in the East could be informed of my request and his answer returned.

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21
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What answer did he return?

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Let him enter this Worshipful Lodge in the name of God, and be received in due and ancient form.

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22
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How were you received?

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Upon the point of a sharp implement piercing my naked left breast, which was to teach me that as that might be made an instrument of torture to the flesh, so should the recollection be to my mind and conscience should I ever presume to reveal any of the secrets of Free Masonry unlawfully.

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23
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How were you then disposed of?

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I was conducted to the center of the Lodge and caused to kneel for the benefit of prayer.

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24
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After prayer, what were you asked?

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In whom I put my trust.

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25
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Your answer?

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In God.

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26
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What followed?

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I was informed that my trust being in God, my faith was well founded. I was taken by the right hand, ordered to arise, follow my conductor, and fear no danger.

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27
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Where did you follow your conductor?

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Once regularly about the Lodge, to the Junior Warden in the South, to the Senior Warden in the West, thence to the Worshipful Master in the East, at each of which stations the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.

28
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How did the Worshipful Master in the East then dispose of you?

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He ordered me to be reconducted to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me how to approach the East, advancing by one upright regular step, my feet forming the angle of an oblong square, my body erect at the altar, before the Worshipful Master in the East.

29
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What did the Worshipful Master then make of you?

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An Entered Apprentice, in due form.

30
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What was that due form?

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Kneeling on my naked left knee, my right forming a square, my left hand supporting the Holy Bible, square, and compasses, my right resting thereon, in which due form I took the obligation of an Entered Apprentice, which is as follows:
I, A.B., of my own free will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God and this Worshipful Lodge, erected to Him and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, that I will always hele, ever conceal, and never reveal, any of the secret arts, parts, or points of the hidden mysteries of ancient Free Masonry, which may have been heretofore, shall be at this time, or at any future period, communicated to me as such, to any person or persons whomsoever, except it be to a true and lawful brother Mason, or within the body of a just and regularly constituted Lodge of such, and not unto him or them, until by strict trial, due examination, or lawful information, I shall have found him or them as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself.
I furthermore promise and swear that I will not write, print, paint, stamp, stain, cut, carve, mark, or engrave them, nor cause the same to be done, upon anything movable or immovable, capable of receiving the least impression of a word, syllable, letter, or character, whereby the same may become legible or intelligible to any person under the canopy of heaven, and the secrets of Free Masonry be thereby unlawfully obtained through my unworthiness.
All this, I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast resolution to perform the same, without any hesitation, mental reservation, or secret evasion of mind whatsoever,
bmuanlpttohmtea,mttobirabitrsots
alwm, wtteaftit-fh, sI eitl, k, vt, m E A o,
so help me, God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same.

31
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After the obligation, what were you asked?

A

What I most desired.

32
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Your answer?

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Light.

33
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Did you receive it?

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I did, by order of the Worshipful Master, with the assistance of the brethren.

34
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On being brought to light in Masonry, what did you discover?

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The three great lights in Masonry, by the aid of the representatives of the three lesser.

35
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What are the three great lights in Masonry?

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The Holy Bible, square, and compasses,

36
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What are the three lesser lights?

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The sun, moon, and Master of the Lodge, represented by three burning tapers placed in a triangular form about the altar. They remind us that as the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so should the Worshipful Master endeavor to rule and govern his Lodge with equal regularity.

37
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What did you next discover?

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The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East, upon the step and under the due guard and sign of an Entered Apprentice, who, in token of his friendship and brotherly love, presented me his right hand, and with it, the grip and word of an Entered Apprentice, and ordered me to arise, go and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as such.

38
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How should an Entered Apprentice wear his apron?

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With the flap turned up.

39
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After saluting the wardens, what did you next discover?

A

The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East a second time, who, as a further token of his friendship and brotherly love, presented me with a lambskin or white leather apron, which, he informed me, was an emblem of innocence and the badge of a Mason, more ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle, and when worthily worn, more honorable than the Star and Garter, or any other order that could be conferred upon me at that time or at any future period, by king, prince, or potentate, or any other person, except he were a Mason and within the body of a Lodge. He hoped I would wear it with equal pleasure to myself and honor to the fraternity. If such was my intention, I should receive it and carry it to the Senior Warden in the West, who would teach me how to wear it as an Entered Apprentice.

40
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After being taught how to wear your apron as an Entered Apprentice, how were you disposed of?

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I was reconducted to the Worshipful Master in the East, who informed me that agreeable to an ancient custom adopted in all regular and well governed Lodges, it became his duty to demand of me something of a metallic kind, not for its intrinsic value, but that it might be laid up among the records in the archives of the Lodge as a memorial that I was there made a Mason, but upon strict search I found myself entirely destitute.

41
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With what were you then presented?

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With the working tools of an Entered Apprentice, which are the twenty-four-inch gauge and the common gavel.

42
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How were you then disposed of?

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I was ordered to be reconducted to the place from whence I came, there reinvested with that of which I had been divested, and returned to the Lodge for further instruction.

43
Q

Where is a Lodge of Entered Apprentices held?

A

In a place representing the ground floor of King Solomon’s Temple.

44
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On your return to the Lodge, how were you disposed of?

A

I was placed in the North East corner of the Lodge as the youngest Entered Apprentice, my feet forming the angle of an oblong square, my body erect at the right of the Worshipful Master in the East, who was pleased to say to me that I there stood, to all appearances a just and upright man and Mason, and gave it me strictly in charge ever to walk and act as such.

45
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Have you any signs appertaining to this degree?

A

I have.

46
Q

Give me the first sign.

A

(Step & D.G.)

47
Q

What is that?

A

The due guard of an Entered Apprentice.

48
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To what does it allude?

A

To the position in which my hands were placed when I took my obligation.

49
Q

Give me the next sign.

A

(Sign)

50
Q

What is that?

A

The sign of an Entered Apprentice.

51
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To what does it allude?

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To the penalty of my obligation.

52
Q

Give me a token.

A

(Token)

53
Q

I hele.

A

I conceal

54
Q

What do you conceal?

A

All the secrets of Masons in Masonry to which this token alludes.

55
Q

What is this?

A

A grip.

56
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A grip of what?

A

Of an Entered Apprentice.

57
Q

Has it a name?

A

It has.

58
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Will you give it me?

A

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

59
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How will you dispose of it?

A

I will letter it and halve it with you.

60
Q

Letter it and begin.

A

Begin you.

61
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The word is yours; you must begin.

A

3

62
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1

A

2

63
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4

A

12

64
Q

34

A

1234

65
Q

This is the grip, and 1234 is the word. What does the word denote?

A

Strength.

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