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37 Cards in this Set
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From whence came you? |
From a lodge of the holy saints John of Jerusalem |
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What came you here to do? |
Learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry |
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Then I presume you are a mason? |
I am so taken and accepted among all brothers and fellows |
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How do you know yourself to be a mason? |
Having been tried and never denied and am ready to be tried again |
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How shall I know you to be a mason? |
By certain signs, a token, a word ,and the perfect point of my entrance. |
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What are signs? |
Right angles, horizontal and perpendiculars |
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What are tokens? |
A certain friendly or brotherly grip whereby one mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light. |
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Give a sign |
Due guard of entered apprentice |
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Has that an elusion? |
It has, to the penalty of my obligation. |
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What makes you a mason? |
My obligation |
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Give me a token... |
Grip, I hail, I conceal |
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What do you conceal? |
All the secrets of Mason's in masonry To which this token alludes |
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What is that? |
A grip |
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Of what? |
An entered apprentice |
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Has it a name? |
It has |
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Will you give it to me? |
I did not receive it, neither will I so impart |
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How will you dispose of it? |
I will letter it or half it |
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Half it and begin! |
No you begin! |
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Will you be off or from? |
Off |
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What was his answer when he returned? |
Let him enter this worshipful lodge in the name of God and be received in due form. |
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How were you received? |
On the point of a sharp instrument pressing my naked left breast. |
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How were you then disposed of? |
I was conducted to the center of the lodge and caused to kneel and attend at prayer. |
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After attending at prayer what were you then asked? |
In whom I put my trust. |
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Your answer? |
In God |
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What followed? |
My trust being in God I was taken by the right hand and informed that my faith was well founded , ordered to rise, follow my conductor and fear no danger. |
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Where did you follow your conductor? |
Once round the lodge to the junior warden stationed in the south where the same questions were asked, and same answers returned as at the door |
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How did the junior warden dispose of you? |
He bid me to be conducted to the senior warden in the west, and he to the worshipful master in the east, where the same questions were asked and like answers were returned as before. |
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Where were you first prepared to be an entered apprentice mason? |
In my heart |
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Where were you next prepared? |
In a room adjacent to a regularly constituted lodge of free and accepted masons |
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How were you prepared? |
Divested of all metallic substances, neither naked or clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked and cable towed about the neck, in which condition I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a friend, whom I later found to be a brother. |
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How did you know it to be a door being hoodwinked? |
By first meeting with resistance, then gaining admission. |
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What was said to you from within? |
Who comes here? |
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Your answer? |
An obligated entered apprentice who has long been in darkness and now seeks to be brought to light, and to receive a part In the rights, light and benefits of this worshipful lodge erected before God and dedicated to the holy Saint John as all brothers and fellows have done. |
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What were you then asked? |
If it was an act of my own free will and accord, if I was worthy and well qualified, duly and truly prepared . All of which being answers in the affirmative.... I was asked by which further rights I expected to obtain this important privilege. |
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Your answer? |
Being a man free born of lawful age and well recommended |
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What followed? |
Since I was in possession of all of the necessary qualifications I should wait until the worshipful master could be informed of my request, and his answer returned. |
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What are the three great lights in masonry, |
The sun the moon and the worshipful master |
