Entered Apprentice

Question 1

As an entered apprentice, from whence come you

Answer 1

From the lodge of the holy saints John at Jerusalem

Question 2

What come you here to do?

Answer 2

To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry

Question 3

Then I presume you are a mason?

Answer 3

I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows

Question 4

What makes you a mason?

Answer 4

My obligation

Question 5

How do you know yourself to be a mason?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

How shall I know you to be a mason?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What are the signs?

Answer 7

Right angles, horizontals and perpendiculars.

Question 8

Give me a sign, what is that

Answer 8

Show sign of the due g

Question 9

What is a token

Answer 9

A certain friendly and brotherly grip by which masons may know each other in the darkness as well as in the light

Question 10

Give me a token
What do you conceal

Answer 10

I hele I conceal
All the secrets of masons in masonry except it be from him or them to whom they of right belong.

Question 11

What is that?

Answer 11

The grip of an entered apprentice

Question 12

Has it a name?

Answer 12

It has.

Question 13

Will you give it me?

Answer 13

I did not receive it neither can I so impart it

Question 14

Where were you first prepared to be a mason?

Answer 14

In my heart

Question 15

(…First prepared a mason)
Where next?

Answer 15

In a room adjacent to a just and lawfully constituted lodge of masons

Question 16

How were you prepared

Answer 16

By being divested of metals, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shod, hookwinked and a cable tow about my neck in which situation I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a friend whom afterwards I later found to be a brother.

Question 17

How did you know it to be a door being hoodwinked

Answer 17

By first meeting resistance and afterward gaining admission.

Question 18

How gained you admission?

Answer 18

By three distinct knocks

Question 19

What was said to you from within?

Answer 19

Who comes here?

Question 20

Your answer to who comes here

Answer 20

A poor blind candidate who is desirous of being brought from darkness to light and receiving part of the rights, lights, and benefits of this worshipful lodge erected to God and dedicated to the holy Saints John as many a brother and fellow has done before him

Question 21

What were you then asked

Your answer

Answer 21

If it was of my own free will and accord if I was duly and truly prepared worthy and well qualified all of which being answered in the affirmative I was asked what further right or benefit I expected to gain admission

By being a man of lawful age and well recommended