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Will you be off or from? From
From what and to what? From a Fellow Craft to a Master Mason.
Are you a Master Mason? I am.
What induced you to become a Master Mason? That I might travel in foreign countries, work and receive Master's wages, and thereby be better enabled to support myself and family, and contribute to the relief of distressed brother Master Masons, their widows and orphans.
What makes you a Master Mason? My obligation.
Where were you made a Master Mason? In a just and legally constituted Master Mason Lodge.
Have you any signs of this Degree? I have.
Give me a sign. (Give Master Mason Due Guard (hands))
What is that? The Due Guard of a Master Mason.
Has it an allusion? It has, to the position which my hands were placed when I took the most solemn obligation of a Master Mason.
Give me another sign. (Give sign of a Master Mason (hip))
What is that? The sign of a Master Mason.
Has it an allusion? It has, to the penalty of my obligation wherein I swore that sooner that reveal any of the secrets of the Master Mason Degree unlawfully, I would have my body severed in twain and so forth.
Give me a further sign. (Give hailing sign (1,2,3))
What is that? The Grand Hailing sign or sign of distress of a Master Mason.
When is it not to be given? It’s not to be given unless at the opening and closing of a Master Mason Lodge, for instruction, or in situations of imminent danger.
Have you any tokens of this Degree? I have.
Give me a token. (Give token of a FC (true grip)).
What is that? The true grip of a Fellow Craft.
Will you be off or from? From.
From what and to what? From the true grip of a Fellow Craft to the past grip of a Master Mason.
Pass, what is that? The true grip of a Master Mason.
Has it a name? It has.
Will you give it me? I did not so receive it, nor can I so impart it.
How will you dispose of it? Letter or syllable it.
Syllable it and begin. Begin you.
Ball Two
Cain Two
Ball Cain- Two-Ball-Cain
Two-Ball-Cain; Who was Two-Ball-Cain? The first known artificer or skillful worker in brass and other metals.
Will you be off or from? From.
From what and to what? From the past grip of a Master Mason to the true grip of the same.
Pass, what is that? The true grip of a Master Mason, or Lions Paw.
Has it a name? It has.
Will you give it me? I did not so receive it, nor can I so impart it.
How will you dispose of it? Syllable it on the five points of fellowship and at low breath.
What are the five points of fellowship? Foot to foot, knee to knee, breast to breast, hand to back, and cheek to cheek or mouth to ear.
How explained. Foot-to-Foot, this I should be ever ready and willing to go on foot and out of my way to the relief of a distressed Brother Master Mason.
How explained (continued). Knee-to-knee, that in my devotions to deity I should ever remember a Brothers welfare as my own.
How explained (continued). Breast-to-breast that I should keep the secrets of a worthy Brother Mason when communicated to a received by me as such, murder and treason excepted, and these at my election.
How explained (continued). Hand-to-back, that I should be ever ready and willing to stretch forth my hand to sustain a fallen Brother.
How explained (continued). Cheek-to-cheek or mouth to ear, that I should nourish and cherish a Brother, whisper good council in his ear, and in the most friendliest manner admonish him of his error and aid a reformation
How explained (continued). And to apprise him that he having timely warning, may be enabled to ward off approaching danger.
Where were you prepared to become a Master Mason? In a room adjoining the body of a just and legally constituted Master Mason Lodge.
How were you prepared? By being divested of all minerals and metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable toe thrice around my naked body, in which condition I was conducted to the door of a Lodge by a Brother.
By being hoodwinked, how did you know it to be a door? By first meeting with resistance afterwards 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 twice repeated.
Your answer (continued)? Brother (first, middle, last name), who has been initiated an Entered Apprentice, passed to the degree of Fellow Craft, and wishes more light in Masonry by being raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.
What were you then asked? (continued). If it was of my own free will and accord, if I duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified.
What were you then asked? (continued). And had I made suitable proficiency in the proceeding degrees to entitled me to this, and properly avouched for
What were you then asked? (continued). All of which being answered in the affirmative, I was asked by what further rights or benefits I expected to obtain this great and important privilege
Your answer? By the benefit of a pass.
Had you that pass? I had it not but my conductor had it for me, which being given and found correct, I was told to await a time with patience until the Worshipful Master could be informed of my request and his answer returned.
What was his answer? Let him enter in the name of God and be received in do form.
How were you received? On both points of the Compasses extending from my naked left to right breast, which was to teach me that as the vital parts of man are contained within breast,
How were you received? (continued) So are the most excellent tenants of our institution contained within the points of the Compass, which are friendship, morality, and brotherly love.
How were you then disposed of? Conducted thrice around the Lodge to the Junior Warden in the South where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.
How did the Junior Warden dispose of you? Directed me to be conducted to the Senior Warden in the West, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as before.
How did the Senior Warden dispose of you? Directed me to be conducted to the Worshipful Master in the East, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as before.
How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you? Ordered me to be returned to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me advance by three upright regular Masonic steps.
How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you? (continued) Stepping off with my left foot, bringing the heel of the right to the heel of the left, thereby forming a square my body erected to the Worshipful Master in the East.
What did the Worshipful Master then inform you? That before proceeding further, it was necessary I should take upon myself a most solemn obligation, which did not infringe upon my allegiance to my country, my duty to my God, my neighbor or myself.
What did the Worshipful Master then do with you? Made me a Master Mason in due form.
What was that due form? Kneeling on my naked knees, my breast exposed, both hands resting on the Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses in which due form I took upon myself the most solemn obligation of a Master Mason which is follows:
Obligation I (First/Last Name) on my own free will and accord, in the presence of almighty God, and this right worshipful Master Mason Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
Obligation (continued). Erected to him, and dedicated to the Holy St. Johns, do herby and hereon most solemn and sincerely promise and swear, that I will always hele, ever conceal and never reveal
Obligation (continued). Any of the secret arts, parts, or points of the Master Mason degree, which have been, may now, or shall at any future time
Obligation (continued). Be communicated, or in anyway come to my knowledge, to any persons except it be in a just and legally constituted Master Mason Lodge
Obligation (continued). Or to a known Brother Master Mason, nor to him or them, till by strict trial, due examination, or legal Masonic information
Obligation (continued). I shall have found him or them as justly entitled to the same as I am now about to be.
Obligation (continued). I furthermore solemnly swear that I will stand to and abide by the Laws, Rules, and Regulations of this or any other just and legally constituted Master Mason Lodge, of which I may become a member.
Obligation (continued). That I will maintain and support the laws, resolutions, edicts of the Grand Lodge under which the same may be holden.
Obligation (continued). So far as they come to my knowledge, and do obedience pay to the officers of the same both supreme and subordinate in all their legal Masonic workings.
Obligation (continued). I furthermore solemnly swear that I will do answer make to all signs and summonses, sent to and received by me
Obligation (continued). From this or any other just and legally constituted Master Mason Lodge, if within the length of my Cable Toe.
Obligation (continued). I furthermore solemnly swear that I will help, aid, and assist all distressed Brother Master Masons, their widows and orphans, they making applications to me as such, and I finding them worthy
Obligation (continued). so far as their necessities may require, and my ability to perform with admitA without material injury to myself or family.
Obligation (continued). I furthermore solemnly swear that I will keep the secrets of a worthy Brother Master Mason, when communicated to, and received as such, murder and treason excepted and these at my election.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) I furthermore solemnly swear that I will not be at the initiation, passing, or raising of an old man in dotage, a young man in none-age, a women, fool, atheists, or unic.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) That I will not sit in a clandestine Lodge of Masons, nor have converse on the subject of Freemasonry, with a clandestine made man, nor with one suspended or expelled, under such sentence, knowing him or them to be such.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) Furthermore, solemnly swear, that I will not wrong, cheat, or defraud, a Brother Master Mason,
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) I furthermore solemnly swear that I will not wrong, cheat, or defraud a Brother Master Mason, nor supplant him in any of his lawful undertakings, nor speak evil of his good name or that of his family.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) Nor permit the same to be had by another, if in my power to prevent, knowing him or them to be such.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) I furthermore solemnly swear that I will not have illegal cardinal communication with a Brother Master Masons wife, daughter, sister, or mother, nor permit the same to be had by another if in my power to prevent, knowing them to be such.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) I furthermore, solemnly swear, that I will not strike or otherwise offer personal violence in anger to a brother, Master Mason, except in the necessary defense of my personal property, or family, nor Prevent the same to be done by another, if in my power
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) Except in the necessary defense of my personal property, or family, nor permit the same to be done by another, if in my power to prevent, knowing him to be such.
Obligation (continued). (NOTs) I furthermore solemnly swear, that I will not communicate the secret word of a Master Mason in any other manner than that in which I shall received it.
Obligation (continued). All which, I’m most solemnly and sincerely promise, and swear, with a fixed and study purpose of mine, to keep and perform without hesitation, mental reservation, or secret evasion of mind.
Obligation (continued). Binding myself, under the no less penalty than that of having my body severed in Twain, my bowels taken thence and burned to ash, and that ash spread to the four winds of heaven,
Obligation (continued). That there might remain neither name nor remembrance among men or Masons of so vial a wretched and I shall be
Obligation (continued). Should I know or willingly violate this,my Master Masons most solemn obligation. So help me God and keep me steadfast in the do performance of the same.
After taking upon yourself the most solemn obligation, what were you asked? What I most desired.
Your answer? More light and Masonry.
Did you receive more light in Masonry? I did, by order of the Worshipful Master with the assistance of the Brethren.
On being brought to more light, what did you behold? Three great lights in Masonry, The Holy Bible, Square and Compasses, both points of the Compasses laid bear,
On being brought to more light, what did you behold? (continued) Which was to teach me never to lose sight of that moral application of that valuable instrument, which teaches friendship, morality, and brotherly love.
What did you next behold? The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East, under the Due Guard and sign of a Master Mason who in token of a continuance of friendship and Brotherly love, presented me his right hand.
What did you next behold? (continued) And with it gave me the token of a pass, a pass of a Master Mason, ordered me to arise, and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as such.
After saluting the Junior and Senior Warden, how were you then disposed of? Ordered to return to the Senior Warden in the West who taught me to wear my apron as a Master Mason.
How do you Master Masons wear their apron? With the right corner tucked up to distinguish themselves from the rest of the Craft.
How were you then disposed of? Conducted to the Worshipful Master in the East who presented me with the working tools of a Master Mason.
What are they? All the implements of Masonry indiscriminately, more, especially the Trowel. The Trowel is an instrument used by operative Masons to spread the cement would unites a building into one common mass or whole.
What are they? (continued) What is use symbolically for the far more noble and glorious purpose of spreading the cement of Brotherly Love and affection,
What are they? (continued) Which unites us into one sacred band of society of friends and Brothers-A temple of living stones, among whom no contention should ever exist,
What are they? (continued) Save that noble contention or rather emulation, of who can best work and best agree.
How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you? Ordered me to be re-conducted to the place whence I came, there be invested with that of which I had been divested, and in due time returned to the Lodge.
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