Proficiency Flashcards
Will you be to or from?
From
From what and to what?
From the degree of an Entered Apprentice to that of a Fellow Craft.
Are you a fellow craft?
I am, try me.
How will you be tried?
By the square.
Why by the square?
Because it is an emblem of morality and one of the working tools of my profession.
What is a square?
An angle of ninety degrees or a fourth part of a circle.
Where were you made a fellowcraft?
In a just and lawfully constituted lodge of fellowcrafts.
How were you prepared?
By being divested of all metals of a removable nature, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shad, hoodwinked and a cable two about my naked right arm, in which condition I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a brother.
Why had you a cable tow twice about your naked right arm?
To show that as a fellowcraft, I was under a double tie to the fraternity.
How gained you admission?
By three distinct knocks.
To what do they allude?
To the three jewels of a Fellow Craft – the attentive ear, the instructive tongue, and the faithful breast
What was said to you from within?
Who comes here?
Your answer?
A brother who has been regularly initiated as an Entered Apprentice and now wishes to receive more light in Masonry by being passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft.
What were you then asked?
If it were of my own free will and accord that I made this request if I were duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, and if I had made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree, 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 the benefit of the pass.
Did you give the pass?
I gave it not: my guide gave it for me.
What followed?
I was directed to wait with patience until the worshipful master was informed of my request, and his answer returned.
What answer did he return?
Let him enter this lodge in the name of God and be received in due and ancient form
How were you received?
On the angle of a square, applied to my naked right breast, which was to teach me that the square of virtue should be the rule and guide to my conduct in all my future turns with mankind, more especially with a brother Mason.
How were you then disposed of?
I was conducted twice regularly about the lodge to the Junior Warden in the South, the Senior Warden in the West, and the Worshipful Master in the East, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.
How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you?
He ordered me to be reconducted to the Senior Warden in the west, who taught me to approach the east—advancing by two regular steps, my feet forming a right angle of an oblong square, my body erect facing the east.
What did the Worshipful Master do with you?
He made me a Fellow Craft.
How?
In Due Form.
What is that due form?
Kneeling on my naked right knee, my left forming a square, my body erect, my right hand resting on the Holy Bible, Square, and compasses, my left arm forming a right angle supported by a square: in which due form I took the obligation of a fellowcraft.
