EA-1 Masonic Questions and Answers

EA-1 Question Brother...Whence came you? What came you here to do? Then you are a Mason...I presume? What makes you a Mason? How do you know yourself to be a Mason? How might I know you to be a Mason? What are signs? Give me a sign? Has this an allusion? Answer From a Lodge of the Holy Saints John of Jerusalem. To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in masonry. I am so taken and accepted amongst Brothers and Fellows. My Obligation. By having been often tried, never denied and being ready and willing to be tried again. By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance Right Angles...Horizontals...and Perpendiculars. It has...to the penalty of my Obligation. Certain friendly of brotherly grips whereby one brother may know another in the What are tokens? dark as well as in the light. Give me a token... I hail??? I conceal. What do you conceal? PAll the secrets of Masons in Masonry to which this token alludes. What is that? A Grip. A grip of what? The grip of an Entered Apprentice. Has it a name? It has. Will you give it to me? I did not so receive it...neither can I so impart it. How will you dispose of it? I will letter or syllable it with you. Letter it and begin. No...you begin. No...Begin you. A B O Z BOAZ The word is right! I greet ** you Brother...BOAZ. Where were you made a Within the body of a just and lawful Lodge of free and accepted Masons. Mason? Where were you first prepared to be made a In my Heart. Mason? Where were you next In a room adjoining the Lodge. prepared? I was divested of all minerals and metals...was neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor How were you prepared? shod, but was hoodwinked with a cable tow about my neck. In this condition...I was conducted to the door of the Lodge by a friend whom I afterwards found to be a Brot Being hoodwinked! How did you know it to be a By first meeting with resistance and afterwards gaining admittance. door? How gained you By three distinct knocks. admittance? What was said to you from Who comes here? within? Mr. Gold; a poor blind candidate who has long been in darkness, but now wishes for light. To have and receive as many a worthy Brother and Fellow has done before; A Your answer? part in the rights and benefits of this Worshipful Lodge of free and accepted Mason...ere If I can of my own free will and accord; if I was worthy and well qualified, if I was duly What were you then and truly prepared; if I was of lawful age and properly avouched... All of these being asked? answered in the affirmative; I was asked by what further right or benefit I Your answer? What answer did he return? How were you received? By being a Man; Free Born; of Good Report; and Well Recommended. Let the candidate enter and let him be received in Due Form. Upon the point of a sharp instrument presented to my naked left breast. This was to teach me that as such an instrument is one of torture to the flesh...so should the recollection thereof be to my conscience if I ever thereafter presume to reveal the sec