Fellow Craft Degree Profesincy

Front 1

will you be off or from?

Back 1

From

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From what?

Back 2

From the degree of an EA to that of a FC

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Are you a FC?

Back 3

I am, try me.

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how will you be tried?

Back 4

By the square.

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why by the square?

Back 5

because it is one of the working tools of my profession.

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what is a square?

Back 6

an angle of 90 degrees or the forth part of a circle.

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at your entrance into the lodge you were recieved in due form. how were you received?

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on the angle of the square at my naked right breast, which was to teach me that the square of virtue should be a rule and guide to my conduct in all my future action with mankind.

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Repeat the OB

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I, A Brother of my own free will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God and this worshipful Lodge, erected to Him and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, as I have heretofore done, but with these additions. That I will not communicate the secrets of a Fellow Craft to an Entered Apprentice nor those of an Entered Apprentice to the rest of the world, neither these nor any of them to any person or persons whatsoever, except it be a true and lawful brother Mason, or within the body of a just a lawfully constituted Lodge of Masons; nor unto him or them until by strict trial, due examination or lawful information, I shall have found him or them as lawfully entitled to them as I am myself.

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paragraph 2 and 3

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I furthermore promise and swear that I will stand to and abide by all the laws, rules and regulations of a Fellow Craft Lodge, so far as they shall come to my knowledge.
I furthermore promise and swear the I will answer and obey all due signs and summonses sent to me by a Lodge of Fellow Craft, or handed me by a brother of this degree, if with-in the length of my cable-tow.

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paragraph 4 and 5

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I furthermore promise and swear that I will help, aid and assist all poor, distress brother Fellow Craft, they applying to me as such and I deem them worthy.
I furthermore promise and swear that I will not cheat, wrong or defraud a Lodge of Fellow Craft, or a brother of this degree knowingly or wittingly.

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paragraph 6

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All this I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast resolution to keep and perform the same without the least equivocation, mental reservation or self-evasion whatsoever; binding myself under no less penalty than, that of being repremanded suspended or expelled (having my left breast torn open, my heart plucked from thence, and given to the beast of the fields and the birds of the air as prey), should I in the least, knowingly or wittingly, violate or transgress this my Fellow Craft obligation. So help me God and keep me steadfast.

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five me the due guard of an FC.

Back 12

due guard given

Front 13

give me the sign of a FC

Back 13

sign given

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give me the password of an FC

Back 14

password given shibolith

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what are the working tools of an FC

Back 15

the plum, square, and level

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what are there uses?

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The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative masons to raise perpendiculars; the Square to square their work; and the Level to lay horizontals; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of them for more noble and glorious purposes. The Plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations before God and man, squaring our actions by the Square of Virtue, and remembering that we are traveling upon the Level of Time to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.