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As an Entered Apprentice, from whence come you?
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From the lodge of the Holy Saints John, at Jerusalem
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What come you here to do?
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To learn to subdue my passions, and improve myself in Masonry
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Then I pressume you are a Mason?
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I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows
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What makes you a Mason?
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My Obligation
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How do you know yourself to be a mason?
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By having been often tried, never denied, and willing to be tried again
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How should I know you to be a Mason?
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By Certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance
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What are signs?
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Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars
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Give me a sign (DG), What is that?
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The Due Guard of an Entered Apprentice
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Has that an allusion?
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It has, to the position in which my hands were placed when I took the Obligation
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Give me another sign sign (PE), What is that?
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The sign of an Entered Apprentice
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Has that an Allusion?
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It has, to the penalty of the obligation
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What is a token?
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A certain friendly and brotherly grip, whereby 1 Mason may know another in the dark well as in the light
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Give me a token. (Grip) I hele
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I conceal
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What do you conceal?
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All the secretsof Masons in Masonry, except it be from him or them to whom they of right belong
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What is this?
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The grip of an Entered Apprentice
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