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Entered Apprentice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Whence came you as an entered apprentice? | From a lodge of the holy Saints John at Jerusalem. |
| What came you here to do? | To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry. |
| Are you a Mason? | I am an entered apprentice, so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows. |
| What makes you an entered apprentice? | My obligation. |
| Where were you made an entered apprentice? | In a just and legally constituted lodge on the first degree of masonry . |
| How do you know yourself to be a mason? | By having been tried, never denied, and now willing to be tried again. |
| How shall I know you to be a mason? | By certain signs, tokens, a word and the perfect points of my entrance . |
| What are the signs? | Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars. |
| Give me a sign. | (Give due guard) |
| Has it (due guard) an allusion? | It has to the position in which my hands were placed when I took upon myself the solemn obligation of an entered apprentice. |
| Give me another sign...(Throat) Has it an allusion? | It has to the penalty of my obligation wherein I swore that sooner than reveal any of the secrets of free masonry unlawfully I would have my throat cut from ear to ear and so forth. |
| Have you further signs? | I have not but have tokens. |
| What are tokens? | Certain brotherly or friendly grips whereby one mason may know another in the dark as in the light. |
| Give me a token, I hele. | I conceal. |
| What do you conceal? | All of the secrets of free masonry except from those to whom they rightly belong. |
| What is this? (Grip) | The grip of the entered appentice. |
| Has it a name? (Grip) | It has. |
| Will you give it to me? (Grip name) | I did not receive it, nor can I so impart it. |
| How will you dispose of it? (Name of grip) | Letter or syllable it. |
| Letter it and begin. | Begin you. |
| A. | z, az |
| B. | o, bo, boaz. |
| How many and what are the perfect points of your entrance? | Four. The gutteral, pectoral, manual and pedal. |
| To what do they allude? (Perfect Points of Entrance) | The four cardinal virtues to wit: temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice. |
| Where were you first prepared to be made a mason? | In my heart. |
| Where next. | In a room adjoining the body of a just and legally constituted lodge on the first degree of masonry. |
| How were you prepared? | By being divested of all minerals and metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable tow around my neck, in which condition I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a friend whom afterward I found to be a brother. |
| Being hoodwinked how did you know it to be a door? | By first meeting with resistance, afterward gaining admittance. |
| How gained you admittance? | By three distinct knocks from without answered by a like number from within with the question who comes there? |
| Your answer? (to who comes there) | Mister Thad Harris a poor blind candidate who has been in darkness and now wishes to be brought to light and to have and receive a part of the rights and benefits of this right worshipful lodge of ancient free and accepted masons on the first degree of |
| (Your answer? (Continued) (to who comes there) | masonry, erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, as many brothers and fellows have done before. |
| What were you then asked? | If it was of my own free will and accord, if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, of lawful age and properly vouched for, all which being answered in the affirmative I was then asked by what further rights and benefits I expected to |
| (What were you then asked) (Continued) | obtain this great and important privilege. |
| Your answer. (by what further rights and benefits I expected to obtain this great and important privilege) | By being a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended. |
| What were you then told? (after answer of being a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended) | To await a time with patience til the worshipful master could be informed of my request and his answer returned. |