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Are you a Fellowcraft Mason?
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I am, try me.
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By what will you be tried?
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By the Square.
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Why by the Square?
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Because it is one of the principal working tools of my profession.
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What is a square?
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An angle of ninety degrees, or the one-fourth part of a circle.
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What makes you a Fellowcraft Mason?
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My obligation.
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Where were you made a Fellowcraft Mason?
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Within the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons
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Where were you prepared to be made a Fellowcraft Mason?
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In a room or place adjacent to the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons.
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How were you prepared ?
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By being divested of all minerals and metals, neither naked nor clad, barefoot nor shod, hood-winked, and with a cable-tow twice around my naked right arm, in which condition I was conducted to a door by a brother.
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Being hood-winked, how did you know it to be a door?
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By first meeting with resistance and afterwards gaining admission.
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How gained you admission?
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By giving three distinct knocks on the door from without, which were answered by a like number from within, followed by the inquiry: "Who comes here, who comes here ?"
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Your answer?
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Brother ______ , who has been regularly initiated an Entered Apprentice Mason, and now seeks further light in Masonry by being passed to the degree of Fellowcraft.
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What was then asked?
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If it was of my own free will and accord, if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified, and had made the necessary proficiency in the preceding degree; all of which being answered in the affirmative, I was then asked by what further right or benefit I expected to gain admission into a Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons.
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Your answer?
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By the benefit of the pass
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Had you the pass?
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I had it not, but my guide had and gave it for me.
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What were you then told to do?
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To await a time with patience until the Worshipful Master in the East had been informed of my request and his answer returned.
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What was his answer?
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Let him enter.
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How were you received?
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Upon the angle of a square applying to my naked right breast, which was to teach me that as the square is an emblem of truth and morality, so should truth and morality be the square of my actions throughout life.
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What was then done?
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I was conducted twice regularly around the Lodge and caused to stop at the South, West and East Stations, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.
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What was then done?
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I was reconducted to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me to advance by two regular steps, my feet forming a right angle, body erect, facing the East.
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What was then said to you?
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That before proceeding any further with the ceremonies of this degree, it would again be necessary for me to take an obligation, by which I would bind myself to keep inviolate all the mysteries of Freemasonry, appertaining to the degree of Fellowcraft Mason. This obligation, like the one I had heretofor taken, I was assured, would not interfere with the duties I owe to God, my country, my neighbor or myself; it appertained to Freemasonry alone. With that assurance, I was asked if I was willing to proceed.
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Your answer?
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I was.
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What was then done?
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I was made a Fellowcraft Mason in due form.
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What is that due form?
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Kneeling at the Altar on my naked right knee, my left forming the angle of a square, body erect within a square, my right hand resting upon the Holy Bible, square and compasses, my left arm forming the angle of a square, hand in a vertical position; in which due form I took the solemn obligation of a Fellowcraft Mason.
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Repeat the obligation.
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I, ___________ , of my own free will and accord, in the presence of God and this Worshipful Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons, erected to Him and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, do hereby and hereon, solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, in addition to my former obligation, that I will always hail, forever conceal, arid never reveal any of the secret arts, parts or points of the hidden mysteries of Freemasonry, appertaining to the degree of Fellowcraft Mason, to any person under the canopy of heaven, except it be to a true and lawful brother of this degree, or within the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and neither unto him nor them until by strict trial, due examination or legal information, I shall have found him or them to be as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself. I furthermore promise and swear that I will answer all due signs given to me by the hands of a brother of this degree, and will obey all summonses sent from within the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons, if within the first square or angle of my work.
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(Obligation Continued)
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Furthermore, that I will aid and assist all distressed worthy brother Fellowcraft Masons, so far as I can do so without serious injury to myself. Furthermore, that I will not cheat, wrong or defraud a Lodge of Fellowcraft Masons, or a brother of this degree, out of the value of anything, knowingly and intentionally. To all this, I do most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear with a fixed and steady purpose, to perform the same without equivocation, mental reservation or secret evasion of mind in me whatever, binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having my left breast torn open, my heart taken thence and given as a prey to the beasts of the field arid the vultures of the air. So help me, God, and keep me steadfast in the due observance of this, my solemn obligation as a Fellowcraft Mason.
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What were you then told to do?
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Detach my hands, bow my head, and in token of my sincerity, kiss the Holy Bible upon which I had been obligated.
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Of what were you then released?
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The cable-tow, it being twice around my naked right arm, was to signify to me that I was bound to the Fraternity by a two-fold tie.
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What was then asked you?
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Being again in a condition of darkness, what I most desired.
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Your answer?
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Light.
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Did you receive it and how?
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I did, by order of the Worshipful Master with the assistance of the Senior Warden.
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On being again brought from darkness, what were the first objects presented to your view?
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The three great lights of Masonry, as before, but with this difference; I then observed one point of the compasses elevated above the square, which was to teach me that Masonry is a progressive moral science taught by degrees only; one point being still depressed, was to signify to me that I am yet one material point in the dark regarding its mysteries.
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What did you then observe?
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The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East, under the due-guard and sign of a Fellowcraft Mason. He again presented me his right hand in token of the continuance of friendship and brotherly love and invested me with the pass, token of the pass, grip and word of this degree. Bade me arise, go and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens as a Fellowcraft Mason.
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What was then done?
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I was reconducted to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me to wear my apron as a Fellowcraft Mason.
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How do Fellowcraft Masons wear their aprons?
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With the top turned down.
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What was then done?
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I was reconducted to the Worshipful Master in the East, who presented me with the working tools of this degree.
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What are the working tools of a Fellowcraft Mason?
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The Plumb, Square and Level. The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to try perpendiculars; the Square to square their work; and the Level to prove horizontal. 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 ever remembering that we are traveling upon the Level of time to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns."
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What was then done?
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I was reconducted to the place whence I came, invested with that of which I had been divested, and on my return to the Lodge, I was conducted through a long aisle or porch, at the entrance of which two brazen pillars were set up, which were severally explained to me by my guide. The next thing to which my attention was directed was a representation of a flight of winding stairs, consisting of three, five and seven steps; which was also explained to me by my guide; and having regularly gained admission through an outer and an inner door to a place representing the Middle Chamber of King Solomon's Temple, where our ancient brethren assembled to receive wages and to have their names recorded, the Worshipful Master was pleased to say to me that I there stood a just and upright Fellowcraft Mason, and as such, was entitled to receive wages and to have my name recorded.
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What are the wages of a Fellowcraft Mason?
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Corn, wine and oil ; the corn of nourishment, the wine of refreshment, and the oil of joy.
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With what were you then presented?
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The three precious jewels of a Fellowcraft Mason. They are the attentive ear, the instructive tongue and the faithful breast.
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To what was your attention directed?
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To the letter G suspended in the East. It is the initial of Geometry, the first and noblest of sciences, and the basis upon which Freemasonry is erected; my attention was again called to the letter G for a more important purpose. It is the initial of the name of the Supreme Being, at the mention of which all Masons, from the youngest Entered Apprentice in the North-east corner of the Lodge to the Worshipful Master in the East, should with reverence bow.
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I hail.
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I conceal.
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What do you conceal?
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All the secrets of Freemasonry, except it be to a true and lawful brother, or within the body of a just and legally constituted Lodge.
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What is this?
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A grip.
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A grip of what?
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The pass grip of a Fellowcraft Mason
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Has it a name?
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It has.
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Give it to me.
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I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it.
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What will you do with it?
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I will syllable it with you.
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Begin.
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No, you begin.
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Nay, begin you.
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Bo
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Shi-Bo ;
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Leth ;
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Bo-Leth ;
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Shi-Bo-Leth.
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The pass is right, will you be of or from?
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From.
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From what to what?
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From the pass grip of a Fellowcraft Mason to the grip of the same.
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Pass (done). What is this ?
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The grip of a Fellowcraft Mason.
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Has it a name?
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It has.
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Give it to me.
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I did not so receive it, neither will I so impart it.
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What will you do with it?
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I will letter it with you
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Begin.
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No, you begin.
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Nay, begin you.
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A ;
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J
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C
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H
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I
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N
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JA
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CHIN ;
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JACHIN
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The word is right, I greet you, my brother.Advance as an Entered Apprentice Mason. Give the due-guard and sign of that degree.
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(Give due-guard of Entered Apprentice)
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Advance as a Fellowcraft Mason. Give the due-guard and sign of that degree.
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(Give due-guard of Fellow Craft)
