Masonic First Degree

Question 1

Brother Brown, are you ready for your examination?

Answer 1

I am.

Question 2

Brother Brown, you will conduct the examination.

Answer 2

[none]

Question 3

Whence came you?

Answer 3

From a lodge of the Saints John of Jerusalem.

Question 4

What came you here to do?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

You are a Mason I presume?

Answer 5

I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.

Question 6

What makes you a Mason?

Answer 6

My obligation.

Question 7

Where were you first prepared to be made a Mason?

Answer 7

In my heart.

Question 8

What are signs?

Answer 8

Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars.

Question 9

Give me a sign.

Answer 9

(penal sign)

Question 10

What is a token?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Has that an allusion?

Answer 11

It has, to the penalty of my obligation.

Question 12

Give me a token, I hele.

Answer 12

I conceal.

Question 13

What do you conceal?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is this?

Answer 14

A grip.

Question 15

Of what?

Answer 15

Of an Entered Apprentice Mason.

Question 16

Has it a name?

Answer 16

It has.

Question 17

Will you give it to me?

Answer 17

I did not so receive it. Neither will I so impart it.

Question 18

How will you dispose of it?

Answer 18

I will letter and halve it with you.

Question 19

Letter and Begin

Answer 19

No, you begin.

Question 20

You must begin.

Answer 20

A

Question 21

Z

Answer 21

AZ

Question 22

B

Answer 22

O

Question 23

BO

Answer 23

BOAZ

Question 24

Place yourself on the Due Guard position of an Entered Apprentice.

Answer 24

????

Question 25

To what does rthis allude?

Answer 25

The position in which my hands were placed while taking my obligation.

Question 26

Give me the sign of an Entered Apprentice

Answer 26

????

Question 27

To what does this allude?

Answer 27

The penalty of my obligation.

Question 28

Brother Brown you will give the Due Guard and Sign of an Entered Apprentice and retire.

Answer 28

?????