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Ea Mason Flashcards

1
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Three Precious Jewels

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Listening ear, a Silent tongue and faithful heart

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2
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What were you next presented with

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The Grand Master’s check-word

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What is the Grand Master’s Check -word

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Truth

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4
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Why were you neither nake nor clothed

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Because Masonry regards no one for his worldly wealth or honors; it is the internal, nd not the external qualifications of a man that should recommend him to be made a Mason.

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5
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Why were you conducted once around the Lodge?

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That the brethern might see that I was suly and truly prepared

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Why were you caused to knell on your naked left knee

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Because the left side is cosidered to be the weakest part of man; it was therefore to show that it was the weaker part of Masonry I was then entering upon, being that of an Entered Apprentice.

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What is a Lodge

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A certain number of Masons duly assembled, with the Holy Bible, Square, and compasses, and a charter, kr warrant wmpowering them to work.

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8
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Where did our ancient brethren usually meet

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On a High hill or in a low valley

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Why so did they meet in these places

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To better to observe the approach of cowans, or eavesdroppers, ascending or desecnding

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What is the form and covering of a Lodge

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An oblong square, extnding from east to west, between the north and south, from the earth to the heavens, and from the surface to the centre.

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11
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What supports this vast fabric

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Three great pillars, constituting Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty

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12
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What furniture has a Lodge

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The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses

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To whom are they dedicated

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The Bible is dedicatd to God, the quare to the Master, and the compasses to the craft.

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14
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How many lights has a Lodge and how are they situated

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East,West and the South

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15
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How many Jewels has a Lodge

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Six: three movable and three immovable

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16
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What are the movable Jewels

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The rough ashler, the perfect ashler and the trestle-board

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17
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What are the three immovable jewels

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The square, level and plumb

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18
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How should a Lodge be situated

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Due east and west

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19
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To whom were Lodges dedicated in ancient times

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To King Solomon

20
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How did Enterd Apprentices serve their Master in ancient timesa, and how should they in modern How were they represented

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with freedom fervency and zeal. By chalk, charcoal and clay

21
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How were you received

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On the point of a sharp instrument pressing my naked left breast

22
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How were you then diposed of

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I was conducted to the centre of the Lodge, caused to kneel, and attend at prayer

23
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After the obligation, what were you then asked

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what I most desired

24
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What are the three great lights of Masonry

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The Holy Bible square and compasses

25
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What are the three lesser lights and what do they represent

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Three burning tapers, in a trangular position, They are the sun moon and Master of the Lodge.

26
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The working-tool of a Entered Apprentice Mason,

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Twenty-four-inch gauge and common gavel

27
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What new name were you presented with

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Caution

28
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What are the ornaments of a Lodge and why

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The Mosaic pavement, the indenteed tessel, and blazing star

The mosaic pavement is a representation of the Ground Floor of King Solomon’s Temple, with a blazing star in the centre; the indented tessel, that beautiful tessellated border which surrounds it

29
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What are the points of your profession

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Brothererly love, relief and truth

30
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How did Entered Apprentices serve their Master in ancient times, and how should they in modern

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with freedom, fervency, and zeal

31
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How do you know yourself to be a Mason

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By having often been tried, never denied and willing to be tried again

32
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How shalll I know you to be a Mason

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By certain signs, tokens, words, and perfect points of my entrance.

33
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What are signs

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Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars

34
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What are tokens

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Certain friendly or brotherly grips, by which one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light

35
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Does a Sign have an allusion

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It has, to the penalty of my obligation

36
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From whence came you as an Entered Apprentice Mason

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From a Lodge of the Holy St. John of Jerusalem

37
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What came you here to do

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To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Mason

38
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How were you prepared

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By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable tow around my neck conditionI was conducted to the door of a Lodge by friends afterward found to be a brother

39
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What is the Password for EA degree and what does it mean

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BOAZ which denotes Strength

40
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Why were you need a barefoot nor shod

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It was in comformityto the ancient isrealites custom.

41
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Why were you received on the point of A-sharp instrument pressing your naked left breast

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As that was an instrument of torture to my flesh so my the recollection of it to be to my conscience should I ever presumed to reveal the secrets of Free mason

42
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Why were you calls to give 3 distinct knocks

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To alarm the lodge to inform the wishful master that I was prepared for masonry and in accordance to the ancient custom

43
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Why were you calls to rest your right hand on The Holy Bible square and compass

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Because the right hand was supposed by our ancient brethren to be the seat of fidelity and so they worshipped Deity under the name of Fides which was suppose to be represented by the right hand joine

44
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Explanations and the certain signs and tokens and words and the points of my entrance

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They are for nekotoroe depeche Toro and the manual and a pedestal which alludes to the for karnels virtues by temperance fortitude prudence and Justice

45
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What does chalk charcoal and clay represent

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Because it will say there is nothing more free than chalk which under the slightest touch these a trace behind nothing more beverage in charcoal to mouth when will live the most obdurate metal wili yield Nothing more zillions than clay or our mother Earth to bring forth

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