EA Flashcards
As an entered apprentice, from whence came you?
From a Lodge of the Holy Saints John of Jerusalem.
What came you here to do?
To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry.
Then you are a Mason I presume?
I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.
What made you a Mason?
My obligation.
Where were you made a mason?
In a just and regularly constituted Lodge of Masons.
How do you know yourself to be a Mason?
By having been often tried, never denied, and being ready to be tried again.
How shall I know you to be a Mason?
By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance.
What are signs?
Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars.
What is a token?
A certain friendly or brotherly grip, whereby one Mason may know another in the dark, as well as in the light.
What are the perfect points of your entrance?
The guttural, the pectoral, the manual, and the pedal.
Where were you first prepared to be made a Mason?
In my heart.
Where next?
In a room adjacent to a just and regularly constituted Lodge of Masons.
How were you prepared?
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.
How did you know it to be a door, you being hoodwinked?
By first meeting with resistance, and afterward gaining admission.
How gained you admission?
By three distinct knocks.
What was said to you from within?
Who comes here?
Your answer?
I, Michael Graziano, 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.
What were you then asked?
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.
Your answer?
By that of being a man, free born, of good report, and well recommended.
What followed?
I was directed to wait with patience until the Worshipful Master in the East could be informed of my request and his answer returned.
What answer did he return?
Let him enter this Worshipful Lodge in the name of God, and be received in due and ancient form.
How were you received?
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 Mason unlawfully.
How were you then disposed of?
I was conducted to the center of the Lodge and caused to kneel for the benefit of prayer.
After prayer, what were you asked?
In whom I put my trust.
Your answer?
In God.
What followed?
I was informed my trust being in God, my faith was well founded. I was taken by the right hand, ordered to arise, follow my instructor, and fear no danger.
Where did you follow your conductor?
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.
