Senior Deacon 3° First Section

Question 0

Brother Senior Deacon, attend to the alarm and report the cause.

Answer 0

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Who comes here?

Question 1

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Answer 1

Worshipful Master, there is an alarm at the door of the preparation room.

Question 2

Brother JPJ, who has been rregularly initiated as an Entered Apprentice, passed to the degree of Fellowcraft, and now seeks further light in Masonry by being raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.

Answer 2

Brother Jones, is this of your own free will and accord?

Question 3

It is.

Answer 3

Brother Junior Deacon, is the candidate worthy and well qualified?

Question 4

He is.

Answer 4

Is he duly and truly prepared?

Question 5

He is.

Answer 5

Has he made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree?

Question 6

He has.

Answer 6

Who vouches for this?

Question 7

A brother.

Answer 7

By what further right or benefit does he expect to gain admission?

Question 8

By the benefit of the pass.

Answer 8

Has he the pass?

Question 9

He has it not but I have it for him.

Answer 9

Give me the pass.

Answer 10

The pass is right. You will wait with patience until the Worshipful Master is informed of your request and his answer returned.

Question 11

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Answer 11

Worshipful Master, the alarm was caused by Brother JPJ, who has been rregularly initiated as an Entered Apprentice, passed to the degree of Fellowcraft, and now seeks further light in Masonry by being raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.

Question 12

Brother Senior Deacon, is the candidate worthy and well qualified?

Answer 12

He is.

Question 13

Is he duly and truly prepared?

Answer 13

He is.

Question 14

Has he made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree?

Answer 14

He has.

Question 15

Who vouches for this?

Answer 15

A brother.

Question 16

(Candidate enters the lodge)

Answer 16

Brother Jones, upon your first admission into a lodge of Masons you were received on the point of a sharp instrument pressing your naked left breast; upon your firs admission to a lodge of Fellowcrafts, you were received on the angle of a square applied to your naked right breast, which at those times were explained to you. Upon your first admission into a lodge of Master Masons, I receive you on the points of a compass extending from your naked right to left breast, which is to teach you that most vital parts of man are contained within the breast, so are the most excellent tenents of our institution contained within these pointsof the compasses, which are friendship, morality, and brotherly love.

Question 17

The pass is right. Since he comes endowed with all these necessary qualifications, it is my order that he enter this lodge in the name of the Lord and be received in due form.

Answer 17

It is the order of the Worshipful Master that the candidate enter this lodge in the name of the Lord and be received in due form.

Question 18

WM: The Pass is right. Since he comes endowed with all these necessary qualifications, it is my order that you reconduct him to the Senior Warden in the West who will teach him to approach the East by three upright regular steps, his feet forming the angle of a square, his body erect at the alter before the Worshipful Master.

Answer 18

Brother Senior Warden. It is the order of the Worshipful Master that you teach the candidate to approach the East by three upright regular steps, his feet forming the angle of a square, his body erect at the alter before the Worshipful Master.

Question 19

Brother Jones, in your present condition, what do you most desire?

Answer 19

Further light in Masonry.

Question 20

…..which teach us friendship, morality, and brotherly love.

Answer 20

You now behold the Worshipful Master approaching you from the East under the due guard and sign of a Master Mason.

Question 21

Brother Senior Deacon, will you be off or from?

Answer 21

From.

Question 22

From what to what?

Answer 22

From the real grip of a Fellowcraft to the pass grip of a Master Mason.

Question 23

Pass. What is this?

Answer 23

The pass grip of a Master Mason.

Question 24

Has it a name?

Answer 24

It has.

Question 25

Will you give it me?

Answer 25

I did not so receive it; neither will I so impart it.

Question 26

How will you dispose of it?

Answer 26

I will syllable it with you.

Question 27

Syllable and begin.

Answer 27

No, you begin.

Question 28

You must begin.

Question 29

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Question 31

Brother Senior Deacon, you will reconduct the brother to the Senior Warden in the West who will teach him how to wear his apron as a Master Mason.

Answer 31

Brother Senior Warden. It is the order of the Woshipful Master that you teach the brother how to wear his apron as a Master Mason.