Ans. “The Worshipful Master approaching me from the east, under the sign and due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason, who presented me with his right hand, in token of brotherly love and confidence, and proceeded to give me the pass-grip and word of a Fellow Craft Mason, and bid me rise and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens, and convince them that I had been regularly passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft, and had the sign, grip, and word of a Fellow Craft Mason.”
“What did you next discover?”
Ans. “The Worshipful Master approaching me a second time from the east, who presented me with a lambskin or white apron, which he said he hoped I would continue to wear with honor to myself, and satisfaction and advantage to the brethren.”
“What were you next presented with?”
Ans. “The working tools of a Fellow Craft Mason”
“What are they?”
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Ans. “The Plumb, Square, and Level.”
“What do they teach?” [I think this question ought to be, “How explained?”]
Ans. “The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to raise perpendiculars; the Square to square their work and the Level to lay horizontals; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of them for more noble and glorious purposes: The Plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations before God and man, squaring our actions by the square of virtue, and remembering that we are all traveling upon the level of time to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.”
“What were you next presented with?”
Ans. “Three precious jewels.”
“What were they?”
Ans. “Faith, hope, and charity.”
“What do they teach?”
Ans. “Faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind.”
“How were you then disposed of?”
Ans. “I was conducted out of the lodge, and invested of what I had been divested.”
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