Masonic Entered Apprentice Rituals

From a lodge of the Holy Saints John at 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>In a legally constituted lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>In a room adjoining a legally constituted lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By being divested of all minerals and metals neither naked nor clothed barefoot nor shod hoodwinked with a cable tow about my neck in which condition I was led to a door.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>By giving three distinct knocks from without which were answered by a like number from within with the question who comes here.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Michael Patrick Faith a poor blind candidate who desires to be brought from darkness to light who wishes to receive a portion of the rights and benefits of this right worshipful lodge erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John as many brothers and fellows have done before me.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Was it of my own free will and accord I made this request was I duly and truly prepared worthy and well qualified of lawful age and properly vouched for. All of which being answered in the affirmative I was asked by what further right I expected to gain admission.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By that of being a man free-born of good report and well recommended.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To wait a time with patience until the Worshipful Master was informed of my request and his answer returned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Upon the point of a sharp instrument piercing my naked left breast which was to teach me as this was an instrument of torture to my flesh so might the recollection thereof be to my conscience should I ever reveal any of the secrets of Freemasonry unlawfully.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the center of the lodge and caused to kneel for the benefit of prayer because no man should engage in any great or important undertaking without first invoking the blessing of deity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In times of imminent peril and danger in whom did I put my trust?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In God and was told 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 around the lodge that the Worshipful Master and brethren might see I was a man duly and truly prepared meeting with obstructions in the Southwest and East where the same questions were asked and like answers given as at the door.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the Senior Warden in the West who taught me how to approach the East in due Masonic form by taking one regular upright step my feet forming the angle of an oblong square my body erect facing east.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It then became necessary I take an obligation in which I would bind myself to keep secret and inviolable all that might be communicated to me, but it contained nothing that would compromise any duty I owed to God, my country, or myself. After this assurance I signified my willingness to take the obligation and was placed at the altar in due form to be made a Mason.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kneeling upon my naked left knee, my right foot forming the angle of an oblong square, my left hand supporting and my right resting upon the Holy Bible Square and Compass in which position I took the following obligation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I Michael Patrick Faith of my own free will and accord and in the presence of almighty God and this right worshipful lodge erected to Him and dedicated to the holy saints John do hereby and hereon solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will always hail forever conceal and never reveal any of the secret arts, parts, or points of the mysteries of Freemasonry which have been, may now or shall hereafter be communicated to me in charge as such to any person in the world except it to be a true and lawful brother Freemason or in a lodge of ancient, free, and accepted masons, and not unto him nor them therein until after due trial, strict examination or lawful information, I shall have found them legally entitled to receive the same. I further promise and swear that I will not write, indict, print, paint, stamp, stain, cut, carve, mark or engrave the same upon anything movable or immovable under the canopy of heaven whereby the least word, syllable, letter or character thereof might become legible to myself or intelligible to others so that the secrets of Freemasonry be unlawfully obtained through my unworthiness. To all of which I solemnly and sincerely promise and swear to keep and perform the same without any equivocation, mental reservation or secret evasion of my mind in me whatsoever. Binding myself under the no less penalty than that of having my throat cut from ear to ear, my tongue torn out by its roots and, with my body buried in the rough sands of the sea where the tide ebbs and flows, twice in 24 hours should I ever knowingly or willingly violate this, my entered apprentice obligation so help me God and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>I did by order of the Worshipful Master assisted by the brethren.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three great lights of masonry by aid of the representatives of the lesser.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Holy Bible, square, and compass. The Holy Bible we take for the rule and guide of our faith. The square to square our actions and the compass to circumscribe our desires and keep our passions in due bounds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sun, moon, and master of the lodge represented by the three burning tapirs placed in a triangular form before me. As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so should the Worshipful Master endeavor to rule and govern his lodge with equal regularity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Worshipful Master approaching me from the east under the due guard and sign of an entered apprentice. He presented me his right hand in token of his friendship and brotherly love and invested me with the grip and word of an entered apprentice. I being uninstructed, Brother SW answered for me.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>All the secrets of Freemasonry except from him or them, to whom of right the same belong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Instructor grips candidate's hand using the EA grip.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>An entered apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

<p>I will letter it with you.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, you begin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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<p>To rise and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Worshipful Master a second time approaching me from the east who presented me with a lambskin or white leather apron which is an emblem of innocence and the badge of a Mason which he hoped I would wear with pleasure to myself and honor to the fraternity. He ordered me to take it to the Senior Warden in the west which taught me how to wear my apron as an entered apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At the building of King Solomon's temple craft were known by the manner of wearing their aprons. Entered Apprentices being bearers of burdens wore theirs with the flap turned up to prevent them from soiling their clothes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the Worshipful Master in the east who asked of me something of a mineral or metallic substance not so much for the intrinsic worth or value thereof but that it might be laid up in the archives among the records of the lodge as a memorial I had herein been made a Mason.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I had not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As I was received into Masonry poor and penniless should I ever meet with a friend or more particularly a distressed worthy brother I would contribute as liberally as I could to his relief without injury to myself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To the place from whence I came and there invested with what I had been divested and returned to the lodge for further instruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the northeast corner of the lodge as the youngest entered apprentice my feet forming the angle of an oblong square my body erect facing the east and informed I there stood as a just and upright Mason and given strictly in charge to ever walk and act as such.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The working tools of an entered apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Brotherly love, relief, and truth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By certain signs, a token, a word, 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>Certain grips whereby one brother may know another in the dark as well as in the light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Guttural, Pectoral, Manual, and Pedal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The guttural alludes to the penalty of my obligation, the pectoral to the manner in which I was received into the lodge, the manual to the manner in which my hands were placed when I took the obligation, the pedal to the position of my feet when placed in the northeast corner of the lodge as the youngest entered apprentice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>With freedom, fervency, and zeal... represented by chalk, charcoal, and clay. There's nothing freer than chalk the slightest touch of which leaves its trace behind. Nothing more fervent than charcoal to which when well ignited the most abhorrent metals yield and nothing more zealous than clay or our mother earth which is constantly employed for man's uses and constantly reminds us as from it we came so unto it we must all return.</p> Signup and view all the answers