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As an Entered Apprentice whence you come?
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From a Lodge of the Holy Saints John of 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 Freemasonry.
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Then I presume you are a Freemason?
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I am so taken and accepted among Brothers and Fellows.
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What makes you a freemason?
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My Obligation.
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How do you know yourself to be a Freemason?
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By having been often tried, never denied and being willing to be tried again.
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How shall I know you to be a Freemason?
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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 perpendicualrs.
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What is a token?
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A certain friendly and brotherly grip whereby one Freemason may know another in the Dark as well as in the Light.
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Where were you made a Freemason?
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In a lawfully constituted Lodge of Freemasons.
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Where were you first prepared to be a Freemason?
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In my heart.
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Where next?
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In a room adjacent to a just and lawfully Constituted Lodge of Freemasons.
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How were you prepared?
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By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked with a cabletow about my neck in which condition I was conducted to the door of the Lodge by a friend whom I afterwards found to be a Brother.
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How did you know it was a door, being hoodwinked?
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By first meeting with resistance
and afterwards gaining admission. |
How gained you admission?
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By three distinct knocks.
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What was said to you from within?
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Who comes here?
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