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Entered Apprentice Test Questions with Verified Answers, Exams of Religious Studies

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Entered Apprentice Test Questions with Verified Answers
As an Entered Apprentice, 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 you are a Mason I presume? - -I am so
taken and accepted by all true Fellows and Brothers.
What makes you a Mason? - -My obligation.
Where were you made a Entered Apprentice mason?
- -In a just and legally constituted lodge of
Entered Apprentice mason representing the ground
floor of King Solomon Temple.
How many composed a lodge of Entered Apprentice
Masons? - -Seven or more.
How do you know yourself to be a Mason? - -
By having been often tried, never denied, and am
willing to be tried again.
How shall I know you to be a Mason? - -By a
certain sign and tokens, a word, and the four perfect
points of my entrance.
What are signs? - -Right angles, horizontals,
and perpendiculars.
What is a token? - -A certain friendly and
brotherly grip where by one mason may know
another in the dark, as well as the light.
Give me a sign. - -Gives it.
Has it an allusion? - -It has, to the penalty of
my obligation.
Give me a token. - -(Gives the Entered
Apprentices grip)
I hail. - -I conceal.
What do you conceal? - -All the secrets of
Masonry, except from him to whom of right they
belong.
What is this? - -A grip of an Entered Apprentice
Mason.
Has it a name? - -It has.
Will you give it to me? - -I did not so receive it
neither can I so impart it.
What will you do with it? - -I will letter or
syllable it but, preferring to letter it.
Letter it and begin. - -Nay, you begin.
Nay begin you. - -O..B.. A..Z..
What does it denote? - -Strength.
Where were you first prepared to be a Mason? -
-In my heart.
Where next? - -In a room adjoining a just and
legaly constituted Lodge of such.
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As an Entered Apprentice, 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 you are a Mason I presume? - - I am so taken and accepted by all true Fellows and Brothers. What makes you a Mason? - - My obligation. Where were you made a Entered Apprentice mason?
    • In a just and legally constituted lodge of Entered Apprentice mason representing the ground floor of King Solomon Temple. How many composed a lodge of Entered Apprentice Masons? - - Seven or more. How do you know yourself to be a Mason? - - By having been often tried, never denied, and am willing to be tried again. How shall I know you to be a Mason? - - By a certain sign and tokens, a word, and the four perfect points of my entrance. What are signs? - - Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars. What is a token? - - A certain friendly and brotherly grip where by one mason may know another in the dark, as well as the light. Give me a sign. - - Gives it. Has it an allusion? - - It has, to the penalty of my obligation. Give me a token. - - (Gives the Entered Apprentices grip) I hail. - - I conceal. What do you conceal? - - All the secrets of Masonry, except from him to whom of right they belong. What is this? - - A grip of an Entered Apprentice Mason. Has it a name? - - It has. Will you give it to me? - - I did not so receive it neither can I so impart it. What will you do with it? - - I will letter or syllable it but, preferring to letter it. Letter it and begin. - - Nay, you begin. Nay begin you. - - O..B.. A..Z.. What does it denote? - - Strength. Where were you first prepared to be a Mason? -
  • In my heart. Where next? - - In a room adjoining a just and legaly constituted Lodge of such.

How were you prepared? - - By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable-tow aroundt my neck; in which condition I was conducted to the door of the Lodge by a friend, whom I after found to be a Brother. How did you know it to be a door you being hoodwinked? - - By first meeting with resistance, and after gaining admission. How gained you admission? - - By three distinct knocks from without answered by three from within. What was said to you from within? - - Who comes here? Your answer? - - A poor blind candidate, who has long been in darkness, and now desires to be brought from darkness to light, by receiving a part of the rights, lights, and benefits of this worshipful Lodge, erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, as true fellows and Brother has done who has gone this way before him. What were you then asked? - - If it was of my own free will and accord; if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy, well qualified and 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. Your answer? - - By being a man, free born of lawful age, and under the tongue of good report. What followed? - - I was directed to wait a time with patience until the Worshipful Master was informed of my request, and his answer returned. What was his answer? - - Since he comes endowed with these necessary qualifications you will allow him to enter this worshipful lodge in the name of the Lord and take heed unto what he enters. How were you received? - - First upon the shock of entrance, and next on the point of a sharp instrument piercing my naked left breast, which was intended to teach me that as this was a torture to my flesh, so should the recollection of it be to my mind and conscience should I reveal the secrets of Masonry unlawfully. How were you then disposed of? - - I was conducted to the center of the lodge, and caused to kneel for the benefit of lodge prayer. After prayer, what was said to you? - - In whom do you put your trust. Your answer? - - In God. What assurance was then given you? - - My trust being in God, my faith was well founded; I was told to arise, follow my leader, and fear no danger. How were you then disposed of? - - I was conducted once regularly around the lodge that the Worshipful Master and brethren might see that I was duly and truly prepared to be made a Mason. Did you meet with any obstructions? - - I did in the south, west, and east where the same question were asked and like answers returned as at the door. How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you? -

  • He ordered me to be re-conducted to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me how to approach our alter in due form and there placed me in proper position to be made a Mason. What is that due form and proper position? - -

How are they explained? - - As the Sun rules the day, and the Moon governs the night, so should the Worshipful Master, rule and govern his Lodge with equal regularity and precision. What did you then behold? - - The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East, on the step, under the due guard and sign of an Entered Apprentice. What did he then do? - - He extended me his right hand, and in token of brotherly love and affection and with it the grip and word of an Entered Apprentice. What did he then say to you? - - Arise brother boaz, salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as a Entered Apprentice and return to me for further instructions. With what did he then present you? - - With a lambskin or white leather apron, and informed me that it was an emblem of innocence and the badge of a Mason. How were you then disposed of? - - I was re- conducted to the Senior Warden in the west who taught me how to wear my apron as an Entered Apprentice How do Entered Apprentice wear their aprons? -

  • With the top turned up. How were you then disposed of? - - I was placed in the North East corner of the lodge. Why? - - Because operative Masons always lay the first stone of the building they are about to erect in the North East corner, I therefore as the youngest Entered Apprentice was placed in the North East corner of the lodge, there to receive these first instructions where to erect my future moral Masonic edifices. In what position were you placed in the north east corner? - - My feet forming the right angle of an oblong Square, my body erect before the Worshipful Master; to all outward appearance, a perfect upright man and Mason. What charge was then given you? - - Ever to preserve this upright position before both God and man. With what were you then presented? - - With the working tools of this degree, which are the twenty-four inch gauge and the common gavel. How are they explained? - - The twenty-four inch gauge is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to measure and lay out their work; but we as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of dividing our time. It, being divided into twenty-four equal parts, is emblematical of the twenty-four hours of the day, which we are taught to divide in to three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of God and aid to a distressed worthy Brother, eight hours for our usual vocation, and eight hours for refreshment and sleep. The common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to break off the corners of rough stone, the better to fit them for the builder's use; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting our bodies, as living stones, for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. What request was then made of you? - - That I should deposit something of a metallic kind in the archives of the lodge.

Did you reply with that request? - - Finding myself utterly destauide I did not. How were you then disposed of? - - I was re- conducted to the place from whence I came, and invested with what I had been divested of, and return to the Lodge for further instructions. What are the four perfect points of your entrance? -

  • The guttural, pectoral, manual, and peedal How are they illustrated? - - By the four cardinal virtues, TEMPERANCE , FORTITUDE, PRUDENCE, and JUSTICE. How are they explained? - - TEMPERANCE: Is that due restraint upon our affections and passions, which renders the body tame and governable, and frees the mind from the allurements of vice. This virtue should be the constant practice of every Mason; as he is thereby taught to avoid excess, or contracting any licentious or vicious habits, the indulgence of which might lead him to disclose some of those valuable secrets which he has promised to conceal, and never reveal, and which would consequently subject him to the contempt and detestation of all good Masons. This virtue should be the constant practice of every Freemason, while its opposite should be carefully guarded against. At the shrine of Intemperance, how many victims are daily offered!— Blooming youth and hoary age have alike bowed before it. They continue offering libations on the unhallowed altar, until their fortunes are wasted, their credit lost, their constitutions impaired, their children beggared, and that life which might have been usefully and honorably employed, becomes a burden to the possessor. FORTITUDE: Is that noble and steady purpose of the mind, whereby we are enabled to undergo any pain, peril, or danger, when prudentially deemed expedient. This virtue is equally distant from rashness or cowardice; and should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every Mason, as a safeguard or security against any illegal attack that may be made, by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of those valuable secrets with which he has been so solemnly intrusted, and which were emblematically represented upon his first admission into the Lodge, and In the absence of this virtue, no person can perform his duty, either to GOD, his neighbor, or himself, in an acceptable manner. He will be too much overwhelmed with the cares and troubles of the world to find leisure or resolution to protect h How did our ancient brother serve their masters? -
  • With freedom, fervency and zeal. How are they represented? - - By chalk, charcoal, and clay. What do they represent? - - Chalk is the freest of all substances; the slightest touch leaves a trace behind, charcoal the most fervent, because to it when ignited the most obdurate metals yield, clay the most zealous because it is constantly employed in man services and is constantly reminding us that from it we all came and to it we must all return.