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43 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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What are signs |
Right Angles, Horizontals, and Perpendicular |
Lines |
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What is a token? |
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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What are the working tools? |
The common gavel and The 24-inch gauge |
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From whence came you? |
From a lodge of the saints John's of Jerusalem |
Jerusalem |
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What came you here to do? |
To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry |
Passions |
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Then I presume you are a Mason? |
I am so taken and accepted among all brothers and fellows |
I am so |
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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 |
Tried |
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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? |
Signs |
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Where were you first prepared to be a made 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 |
Adjacent |
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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 tithe 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 were said to you from within |
Who come here? |
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How gained you admission? |
By three knocks |
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Your answer to who comes here? |
This candidate, who has long been in darkness, and now seeks to be brought to light, and to receive a part in the righs and benefits of this Worshipful lodge, erected to God, and dedicated to the Holy Saint John, as all brothers and fellows before me |
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How were you received ? |
On the point of a sharp instrument, pressing my naked left breast |
Sharp |
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How were you disposed of ? |
I was conducted to the centre of the lodge, caused to kneel, and attend a prayer |
Prayer |
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After attending the prayer, what were you then asked? |
In whom I put my trust |
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In whom do you put your trust? |
God |
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What was due form in which you made a mason? |
Kneeling on my naked left knee, my right forming a square, my left hand supporting the Holy Bible, square, and compasses, my right resting thereon, in which due form I took the solemn oath of an Entered Apprentice. |
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After the obligation what was I asked? |
What I most desired |
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What do you most disire? |
Light |
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Did you receive the light ? |
I did, by the order of the Worshipful Master and the assistance of the brethren |
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On being brought to light what did you first discover? |
The three great lights in Masonry, by help of the three lesser. |
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What are the three great lights |
Three burning tapers, in a triangular position |
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What do the lesser light represent? |
The sun. The moon, and Master of the lodge |
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Why the sun, moon, and master of the lodge ? |
Because, as the sun rules the day, and the moon governs the night, so ought the Worshipful Master to endeavor to rule and govern his lodge, with equal regularity |
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How should an Entered Apprentice wear his apron? |
With the flap up |
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On your return to the lodge, where you you placed? |
In the Northeast corner, my feet forming a right angle, my body erect, at the right hand of the Worshipful Master in the east, an upright man and Mason, and it was given me strictly in charge ever to walk and act as such |
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After the working tools (which is the 3rd item given) what were you presented with? |
A new name |
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What was your new name |
Caution |
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What does caution teach |
It teaches me, as I was barely instructed in the rudiments of Masonry, that I should be cautious over all my words and actions, especially when before it's enemies |
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After receiving a new name(4th given) what were you then given |
Three precious jewels |
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What are the three precious jewels |
A listening ear, a silent tongue, and a faithful heart. |
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What does a listening ear teach |
It teaches me to listen to instructions of the Worshipful Master, but more especially to the cries of a worthy distressed brother |
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What does a silent tongue teach? |
It teaches me to be silent in the lodge, that the peace and harmony thereof may not be disturbed, but more especially before the enemies of Masonry |
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What does a faithful heart teach? |
That I should be faithful and keep and conceal the secrets of Masonry and those of a brother when delivered to me in charge as such, that they remain as secure and inviolable in my breast as in his own, before being communicated to me |
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After being given the precious jewels(5th given) what were you next presented with? |
The Grandmasters check word |
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What was the check-word |
Truth |
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Recite truth and union! |
Should me memorized |
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Recite EA Obligation |
Should be memorized |
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What are the uses of the working tools ...recite |
Should be memorized |
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