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Entered Apprentice

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Whence came you as an entered apprentice? From a lodge of the holy Saints John at Jerusalem.
What came you here to do? To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry.
Are you a Mason? I am an entered apprentice, so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.
What makes you an entered apprentice? My obligation.
Where were you made an entered apprentice? In a just and legally constituted lodge on the first degree of masonry .
How do you know yourself to be a mason? By having been tried, never denied, and now willing to be tried again.
How shall I know you to be a mason? By certain signs, tokens, a word and the perfect points of my entrance .
What are the signs? Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars.
Give me a sign. (Give due guard)
Has it (due guard) an allusion? It has to the position in which my hands were placed when I took upon myself the solemn obligation of an entered apprentice.
Give me another sign...(Throat) Has it an allusion? It has to the penalty of my obligation wherein I swore that sooner than reveal any of the secrets of free masonry unlawfully I would have my throat cut from ear to ear and so forth.
Have you further signs? I have not but have tokens.
What are tokens? Certain brotherly or friendly grips whereby one mason may know another in the dark as in the light.
Give me a token, I hele. I conceal.
What do you conceal? All of the secrets of free masonry except from those to whom they rightly belong.
What is this? (Grip) The grip of the entered appentice.
Has it a name? (Grip) It has.
Will you give it to me? (Grip name) I did not receive it, nor can I so impart it.
How will you dispose of it? (Name of grip) Letter or syllable it.
Letter it and begin. Begin you.
A. z, az
B. o, bo, boaz.
How many and what are the perfect points of your entrance? Four. The gutteral, pectoral, manual and pedal.
To what do they allude? (Perfect Points of Entrance) The four cardinal virtues to wit: temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice.
Where were you first prepared to be made a mason? In my heart.
Where next. In a room adjoining the body of a just and legally constituted lodge on the first degree of masonry.
How were you prepared? By being divested of all minerals and metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable tow around my neck, in which condition I was conducted to the door of the lodge by a friend whom afterward I found to be a brother.
Being hoodwinked how did you know it to be a door? By first meeting with resistance, afterward gaining admittance.
How gained you admittance? By three distinct knocks from without answered by a like number from within with the question who comes there?
Your answer? (to who comes there) Mister Thad Harris a poor blind candidate who has been in darkness and now wishes to be brought to light and to have and receive a part of the rights and benefits of this right worshipful lodge of ancient free and accepted masons on the first degree of
(Your answer? (Continued) (to who comes there) masonry, erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, as many brothers and fellows have done before.
What were you then asked? If it was of my own free will and accord, if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, of lawful age and properly vouched for, all which being answered in the affirmative I was then asked by what further rights and benefits I expected to
(What were you then asked) (Continued) obtain this great and important privilege.
Your answer. (by what further rights and benefits I expected to obtain this great and important privilege) By being a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended.
What were you then told? (after answer of being a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended) To await a time with patience til the worshipful master could be informed of my request and his answer returned.
Created by: jth3
 

 



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