Entered Apprentice Degree Work Flashcards

From the 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 among Brothers and Fellows.

<p>My obligation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By having often been tried, never denied, and willing to be tried again.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By a certain sign, a word, a token, and the perfect points of my entrance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The due guard of an Entered Apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sign of an Entered Apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A certain friendly and Brotherly grip, whereby one Mason may know another in darkness as well as light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the secrets of Masons and Masonry, to which this token alludes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A grip.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Of an Entered Apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It has.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I did not receive it, neither can I so impart it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I will letter or syllable with you, preferring to letter and reserving the right to begin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In a lawfully constituted Lodge of Masons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In my heart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In a room adjacent to a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of Masons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, and a cable-tow once about my neck.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By first meeting with resistance, and then gaining admission.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By three distinct knocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Who comes here?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A poor blind candidate, who has long wandered in Masonic darkness, and now desires to be brought from darkness to light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If this was an act of my own free will and accord; if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy, and well qualified; all of which being answered in the affirmative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By being a man, of lawful age, and well recommended.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I was directed to wait with patience until the Master was informed of my request.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Let him enter and be received in due and ancient form.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On the point of a sharp instrument at my naked left breast.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the center of the lodge, where I was caused to kneel and attend prayer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In whom do you put your trust?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In God.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>My trust being in God, my faith was well founded; I was taken by the right hand, and ordered to arise, follow my guide, and fear no danger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Once about the altar, following the apparent course of the Sun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He ordered me to be re-conducted to the Senior Warden in the West.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Mason.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In due form.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kneeling at the altar on my naked left knee, my naked left hand supporting the Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That I will always conceal and never reveal any of the secret arts, parts, or points of the hidden mysteries of Masonry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What I most desired.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I did.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By the order of the Master and the assistance of the Brethren.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Three Great Lights of Masonry, by the aid of the representatives of the three lesser lights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Holy Bible is the rule and guide of our faith; the Square teaches us to square our actions; and the Compasses teach us to circumscribe our desires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Sun, Moon, and Master of the Lodge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As the Sun opens the day, and the Moon governs the night, so should the Master govern the Lodge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By three burning tapers, placed in a triangular position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Master approaching me from the East.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Master approaching me a second time, presenting me with the lambskin or white leather apron.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>With the bib turned up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tools of an Entered Apprentice, and taught me their uses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The twenty-four inch gauge and the common gavel.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The twenty-four inch gauge measures time; the common gavel breaks off vices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He ordered I be re-conducted to the place whence I came.</p> Signup and view all the answers