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25 Cards in this Set
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Are you a Fellow Craft? |
I am. Try me. |
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How will you be tried? |
By the square. |
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Why by the square? |
Because it is an emblem of morality, and one of the working-tools of my profession. |
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What is a square? |
An angle of ninety degrees, or a fourth part of a circle. |
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Where were you made a Fellow Craft? |
In a regularly constituted Lodge of Fellow Crafts. |
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How were you prepared? |
By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable-tow twice about my right arm, in which condition I was conducted to the door of a Lodge by a brother. |
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Why had you a cable-tow twice about your right arm? |
To signify, as a Fellow Craft, that I was under a double tie to the fraternity. |
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How gained you admission? |
By three distinct knocks. |
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To what do they allude? |
To the three jewels of a Fellow Craft—an attentive ear an instructive tongue, and a faithful breast. |
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What was said to you from within? |
Who comes there. |
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Your answer? |
A Brother, who has been regularly initiated Entered Apprentice, and now wishes to receive more light in Masonry, by being passed to the degree of Fellow Craft. |
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What were you then asked? |
If it was of my own free-will and accord, if I was worthy and well qualified, duly and truly prepared, had made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree, and was properly vouched for: 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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The 3 steps in 3-5-7 Alludes to what principle stages of human life? |
Youth/EA: we ought industriously to occupy our minds in the attainment of useful knowledge Manhood/FC: we should apply our knowledge to the discharge of our respective duties to God, Old age/Master Mason: we may enjoy the happy reflections consequent on a well spent life, and die in the hope of a glorious immortality. |
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The 3 steps in 3-5-7 alludes to what 3 principle supports in Masonry? |
Wisdom/WM Strength/SW Beauty/JW |
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The 5 steps in 3-5-7 alludes to what five orders of architecture and human senses? |
Tuscan/hearing Doric/Seeing Ionic/Feeling Corinthian/Smelling Composite/Tasting |
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The 7 steps in 3-5-7 alludes to what liberal arts and sciences? |
Grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy |
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The 7 steps in 3-5-7 also alludes to? |
1. 7 Sabbatical years 2. 7 years of famine 3. 7 years in building the Temple 4. 7 golden candlesticks 5. 7 wonders of the World 6. 7 wise men of the East 7. 7 planets |
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What are the two brazen pillars of King Solomon’s temple and what do they represent? |
Left: Boaz (strength) Right: Jachin (establishment) |
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What passage in scripture do they allude to? |
"In strength shall this house be established." |
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What were their dimensions? |
35 cubits in height, 12 in circumference, and 4 in diameter. Each with a lane capital of 5 cubits, making the entire height 40 cubits. |
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Have you ever worked as a Fellow Craft? |
I have, in speculative; but our forefathers wrought in both speculative and operative Masonry. |
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Where did they work? |
At the building of King Solomon's Temple, and of many other Masonic edifices. |
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How long did they work? |
6 days |
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Did they work on the seventh? |
They did not |
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Why not? |
Because in six days God created the heavens and the earth, and rested on the seventh day; the seventh day, therefore, our ancient brethren consecrated as a day of rest from their labors, thereby enjoying more frequent opportunities to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and adore their great Creator. |
