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30 Cards in this Set
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In whom do you put your trust? |
In God |
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From whence came you? |
From a lodge of St. John of Jerusalem. |
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What came you here to do? |
To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry. |
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Then I presume you are a Mason? |
I am so taken and accepted among all brothers and fellows |
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How do you know yourself to be a mason? |
By having been often tried, never denied and willing to be tried again. |
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How shall I know you to be a Mason? |
By certain signs, a token, a word and the perfect points of my entrance. |
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What are signs? |
Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars. |
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What are tokens? |
Certain friendly or brotherly grips, by which one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light. |
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Where were you first prepared to be a Mason? |
In my heart. |
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Where were you next prepared? |
In a room adjacent to a regularly constituted Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. |
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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 around my neck; in which condition I was conducted to the door of a Lodge by a friend, whom I afterward found to be a brother |
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How did you know it to be a door being hoodwinked? |
By first meeting with resistance, afterward gaining admission. |
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How gained you admission |
By three distinct knocks. |
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What are the working tools of an entered apprentice mason? |
The twenty-four inch gauge and the common gavel. |
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What are the three precious jewels of an Entered Apprentice Mason? |
A listening ear, a silent tongue, and a faithful heart. |
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Why were you neither naked nor clothed? |
Because Masonry regards no one for his wordly wealth or honors; it is the internal and not the external qualifications of a man that should recommend him to be made a mason. |
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Why were you caused to give three distinct knocks? |
To alarm the lodge and inform the Worshipful Master that I was prepared for Masonry, and in accordance to our ancient custom. That I should ask, "Ask, and ye shall recieve; seek and ye shall find; Knock and shall be opened to you." |
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Why were you caused to kneel and attend at prayer? |
Because no man should enter upon a great and important undertaking without first imploring the blessings of the deity. |
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What is a lodge? |
A certan number of Masons duly assembled with the Holy Bible, square and compass, and charter or warrant empowering them to work. |
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Where did our ancient Brethren usually meet? |
On a high hill or in a low valley. |
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What furniture has a Lodge? |
The Holy Bible, square and compass. |
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To whom are the furniture of the Lodge dedicated? |
The Holy Bible is dedicated to God, the square to the Master, and the compass to the craft. |
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How many lights has a Lodge? |
Three |
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How are they situated? |
East, West and South. |
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How many jewels has a Lodge? |
Six: 3 movable and 3 and immovable. |
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What are the three movable jewels of the Lodge? |
The rough ashler, the perfect ashler and the trestle-board. |
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What are the three immovable jewels of the lodge? |
The square, the level and the plum. |
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How should a lodge be situated? |
Do east and west. |
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To whom were lodges dedicated to in ancient times? |
To King Solomon. |
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To whom were Lodges dedicated to in modern times? |
To St John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, who were two eminent Christian patrons of Masonry. |
