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57 Cards in this Set
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Are you a Master Mason?
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I am
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What induced you to become a Master Mason?
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In order that I might receive master's wages, and be the better enabled to support myself and family, and contribute to the relief of poor, distressed Master Masons, their widows and orphans.
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Where were you made a Master Mason?
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In a just and lawfully constituted lodge of Master Masons
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How were you prepared?
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By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, and a cable tow three times about my naked body; In which situation I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a brother
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Why had you a cable tow thrice about your naked body?
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It was to show that my duties and obligations became more and more extended as I advanced in Masonry
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How gained your admission?
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By three distinct knocks
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What was said to you from within?
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Who comes here?
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Your answer?
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A brother, who has been regularly initiated as an Entered Apprentice, passed to the degree of Fellow Craft, and now wishes to receive further light in Masonry by being raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason
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What were then asked?
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If it was my own free will and accord, If I was duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, if I had made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree; all of which being answered in the affirmative, I was asked by what further right or benefit I expected to gain admission
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your answer?
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By the benefit of the pass
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did you give the pass?
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I gave it not, my guide gave it for me
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What followed?
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I was directed to wait with patience until the Worshipful Master was informed of my request and his answer returned
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What answer did he return?
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Let him enter and be received in due and ancient form
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How were you received?
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On both points of the compasses, extending from my naked right to left breast, which was to show that as the vital parts of man are contained within the breast, so the most useful tenets of our institution are contained within the points of the compasses, which are friendship, morality and brotherly love
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How were you then disposed of?
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I was conducted three times about the altar to the Junior Warden in the south, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door
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How did the Junior Warden dispose of you?
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He directed me to the Senior Warden in the West where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as before
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How did the Senior Warden dispose of you?
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He directed me to the Worshipful Master in the east, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as before
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How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you?
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He ordered me to be reconducted to Senior Warden in the West, who taught me how to approach to the east, advancing by three upright regular steps, my feet forming the right angle of the perfect square, my body erect to the Worshipful Master in the East
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What did the Worshipful Master then do to you?
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He made me a Master Mason
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How?
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In due form
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What is the due form?
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Kneeling on my naked knees, my body erect, my naked hands resting on the Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses; in which due form I took the obligation of a Master Mason
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After taking your obligation, what were you then asked?
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What I most desired?
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Your answer?
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further light in Masonry
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Did you receive it?
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I did
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How?
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By order of the Worshipful Master and assistance of the brethren
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On being brought to light, what did you first discover on the altar more than you had heretofore done?
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Both points of the compass bare; which was to teach me never to lose sight of the Masonic application of that useful and valuable instrument which teaches friendship, morality and brotherly love.
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What did you then discover?
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The Worshipful Master approaching me from the east, under the due guard and sign of a Master Mason, who in token of the further continuance of his brotherly love and friendship, presented me his right hand, and with it the pass and token of the pass of a Master Mason, and bade me arise and salute the Wardens, as such
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After saluting the Wardens, how were you then disposed of?
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The Worshipful Master ordered me to be reconducted to the Senior Warden in the west, who taught me how to wear my apron as a Master Mason
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How should a Master Mason wear his apron?
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With the bib turned down, and the apron spread
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after being taught how to wear your apron as a Master Mason, how were you then disposed of?
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I was conducted to the right hand of the Worshipful Master in the east, who presented me with the working tools of a Master Mason, and taught me their uses.
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What are the working tools of a Master Mason?
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All the implements of Masonry indiscriminately, but more especially the trowel
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What is the use of the trowel?
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The trowel is an instrument made use of by operative masons to spread the cement which unites a building into one common mass; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of spreading the cement of brotherly love and affection; the cement which unites us into one sacred band, or society of friends and brothers, among whom no contention should ever exist, save the noble contention, or rather emulation, of who can best work and best agree
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How were you then disposed of?
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I was ordered to place whence I came, then be reinvested of what I had been divested, and await the Worshipful Master's further will and pleasure.
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Have you any signs belonging to this degree?
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I have several
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Give me a sign
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Due Guard
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What is that?
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The due guard of a Master Mason
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Has that an allusion?
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It has, to the position in which my hands were placed when I took the obligation; and when our ancient brethren retired to the grave of Grand Master Hiram Abif, they found their hands involuntary placed in this position, to guard their nostrils from the disagreeable effluvia that arose from the grave.
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Give me another sign
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Penalty
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What is that?
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The sign of a Master Mason
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Has that an allusion?
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It has, to the penalty of the obligation
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Give me a token
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Fellow Craft grip
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will you be off or from?
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From
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From what?
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From the grip of a Fellow Craft to the pass grip of a Master Mason
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What is that?
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The pass grip of a Master Mason
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Has it a name?
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It has
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Will you give it to me?
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I did not so receive it, neither can I so impart it.
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How will you dispose of it?
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syllable or letter it with you
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Syllable and begin
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Begin you
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Nay, you must begin
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Bal
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Cain
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Who was Tubal Cain
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The first known artificer or cunning metal worker
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Will you be of or from?
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From
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From what?
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From the pass grip of a Master Mason to the strong grip of a Master Mason or the Lion's Paw
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What is that?
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The strong grip of a Master Mason, or the Lion's Paw
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Has it a name?
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It has
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Will you give it to me?
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I cannot, nor can it be given except on the five points of fellowship and then in a low breath
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Advance and give it
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Mahabone
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