Fellowcraft Mason Part 1

Question 1

Are you a fellow craft Mason?

Answer 1

I am, try me

Question 2

By what will you be tried?

Answer 2

By the square

Question 3

Why by the square?

Answer 3

Because it’s one of the principal working tools by my profession

Question 4

What is a square?

Answer 4

The angle of 90 degrees or the 1/4 part of a circle

Question 5

Where were you prepared to be made a fellowcraft Mason?

Answer 5

In a room adjacent to the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of fellow craft Masons

Question 6

How were you prepared?

Answer 6

By being divested of all minerals and metals, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shod, my right breast knee and foot bear, hoodwinked and a cable tow twice around my naked right arm in which condition I was led to the door by a brother.

Question 7

Being hoodwinked, how do you know there was a door?

Answer 7

By first meeting with resistance and afterward gaining admission

Question 8

How did you gain admission?

Answer 8

By giving three distinct knocks at the door from without which were answered by a like number from within, followed by the inquiry who comes here?

Question 9

Your answer?

Answer 9

Michael Lee, who has been regularly initiated an entered apprentice Mason and now seeks further light in Masonry by being passed to the degree of Fellowcraft.

Question 10

What was then asked?

Answer 10

If this was of my own free will and accord,
if I was duly and truly prepared worthy and well-qualified and if I had made the necessary proficiency in the preceeding degree.

All of which being answered in the affirmative, I was asked by what further right or benefit I expected to gain admission into a lodge of fellow craft Masons.

Question 11

Your answer?

Answer 11

By the benefit of the past?

Question 12

Has it a pass?

Answer 12

I had it not but my guide had and gave it for me.

Question 13

What was then said to you?

Answer 13

That I should wait a time with patience until the worshipful master in the East was informed of my request and his answer returned.

Question 14

What was his answer?

Answer 14

Let him enter

Question 15

How were you received?

Answer 15

Upon the angle of the square applied to my naked right breast which was to teach me that as the square is an emblem of truth and morality,

so should truth and morality be the square of my actions through life.

Question 16

What was then done with you?

Answer 16

I was conducted twice around the lodge and caused to stop at the south, west, and east stations,
where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.

Question 17

What was then done with you?

Answer 17

I was reconducted to the senior warden in the west who taught me to advance by two regular steps, my feet forming a right angle, my body erect facing the east.

Question 18

What was then said to you?

Answer 18

That before we can proceed any further with the ceremonies of this degree,
it would again be necessary for me to take
an obligation, by which i would bind myself
to keep in violet all the mysterious of free masonry appetrtaining to the degree of Fellow craft mason andwas assured that this obligation
like that thy i had there fortaken***
would not interfere with duties i owe to god,
my country, my neighbor, or myself, it appertained to free masonry alone.
With this assurance, on the part of the master, I was asked if I was willing to proceed.

Question 19

Were you?

Answer 19

I was

Question 20

What was then done with you?

Answer 20

I was made a fellowcraft mason
in due form.

Question 21

What is that due form?

Answer 21

Kneeling at the alter on my naked right knee, my left forming the angle of a square, my body erect within a square,
my right hand resting upon the holy Bible , square and compass,my left arm forming the angle of a square, the hand in a vertical position, in which due form i took the solemn obligation of a fellowcraft Mason.