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Entered Apprentice Degree: First Section Lecture Study Review
As an Entered Apprentice, from whence come you? -
-From the lodge of the holy Saints John at
Jerusalem.
What come you here to do? - -To learn to
subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry.
Then I presume you are a mason? - -I am so
taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.
What makes you a mason? - -My obligation.
How do you know yourself to be a mason? - -
By having been tried, never denied, and willing to be
tried again.
How shall 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. (Due Guard). What is that? - -
The due guard of an entered apprentice.
Has that an allusion? - -It has, to the position in
which my hands were placed when I took the
obligation.
Give me another sign. (Penalty). What is that? -
-The sign of an Entered Apprentice.
Has that an allusion? - -It has, to the penalty of
the obligation.
What is a token? - -A certain friendly and
brotherly grip, whereby one mason may know
another in the darkness as well as in the light.
Give me a token. (Grip). I hele. - -I conceal.
What do you conceal? - -All the secrets of
masons in masonry, except it be from him or them to
whom they of right belong.
What is that? - -The grip of an Entered
Apprentice.
Has it a name? - -It has.
Will you give it me? - -I did not so receive it,
neither can I so impart it.
How will you dispose of it? - -Letter or syllable it
with you.
Letter and begin. - -Begin you.
Nay, you must begin. - -(Word given).
Where were you first prepared to be made a mason?
- -In my heart.
Where next? - -In a room adjacent to a just and
lawfully constituted lodge of masons.
How were you prepared? - -By being divested
of all metals, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor
shod, hoodwinked, and a cable tow about my neck, in
which situation I was conducted to the door of the
lodge by a friend, whom I afterwards found to be a
brother.
How did you know it to be a door, being hoodwinked?
