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Brother...Whence came you? From a Lodge of the Holy Saints John of Jerusalem.
What came you here to do? To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry.
Then you are a Mason...I presume? I am so taken and accepted amongst Brothers and Fellows.
What makes you a Mason? My Obligation.
How do you know yourself to be a Mason? By having been often tried, never denied and being ready and willing to be tried again.
How might I know you to be a Mason? By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance
What are signs? Right Angles...Horizontals...and Perpendiculars.
Give me a sign?
Has this an allusion? It has...to the penalty of my Obligation.
What are tokens? Certain friendly of brotherly grips whereby one brother may know another in the dark as well as in the light.
Give me a token... I hail??? I conceal.
What do you conceal? PAll the secrets of Masons in Masonry to which this token alludes.
What is that? A Grip.
A grip of what? The grip of an Entered Apprentice.
Has it a name? It has.
Will you give it to me? I did not so receive it...neither can I so impart it.
How will you dispose of it? I will letter or syllable it with you.
Letter it and begin. No...you begin.
No...Begin you. A
B O
Z BOAZ
The word is right! I greet you Brother...BOAZ. **
Where were you made a Mason? Within the body of a just and lawful Lodge of free and accepted Masons.
Where were you first prepared to be made a Mason? In my Heart.
Where were you next prepared? In a room adjoining the Lodge.
How were you prepared? I was divested of all minerals and metals...was neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, but was hoodwinked with a cable tow about my neck. In this condition...I was conducted to the door of the Lodge by a friend whom I afterwards found to be a Brot
Being hoodwinked! How did you know it to be a door? By first meeting with resistance and afterwards gaining admittance.
How gained you admittance? By three distinct knocks.
What was said to you from within? Who comes here?
Your answer? Mr. Gold; a poor blind candidate who has long been in darkness, but now wishes for light. To have and receive as many a worthy Brother and Fellow has done before; A part in the rights and benefits of this Worshipful Lodge of free and accepted Mason...ere
What were you then asked? If I can of my own free will and accord; if I was worthy and well qualified, if I was duly and truly prepared; if I was of lawful age and properly avouched... All of these being answered in the affirmative; I was asked by what further right or benefit I
Your answer? By being a Man; Free Born; of Good Report; and Well Recommended.
What answer did he return? Let the candidate enter and let him be received in Due Form.
How were you received? Upon the point of a sharp instrument presented to my naked left breast. This was to teach me that as such an instrument is one of torture to the flesh...so should the recollection thereof be to my conscience if I ever thereafter presume to reveal the sec
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