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The Master seats the Deacon by one rap.

Meanwhile, the Senior Deacon arranges the three Great Lights duly
upon the altar, the Bible laying open at Psalm CXXXIII, and both points
of the compasses are laid underneath the square. The Wardens reverse
their columns, erect in the West, down in the South.

CEREMONIES OF INITIATION.

W.M. Brother Stewards, you will repair to the preparation room, where
you will find a candidate in waiting, whom you will duly prepare for the
first degree of Masonry. (Before the Stewards leave the Lodge room,
they step to the altar and make the proper sign. Leaving the altar on
their right they proceed to the preparation room.)

After the candidate has responded to the usual questions, and has
been properly prepared for initiation by the Stewards, he is conducted to
the door and requested to give three distinct knows.

S.D. to W.M. (rising and making signs.) There is an alarm at the
door of the preparation room.

W.M. Attend to the alarm.

The Senior Deacon, leaving the altar on his right, goes to the door,
and answers the alarm by three similar knocks. The door is then
partially opened.

S.D. Who comes here?

Steward. A poor, blind candidate, who is desirous of being brought
from darkness to light, and receiving a part of the rights, lights and
benefits of this Worshipful Lodge erected to God and dedicated to the
Holy Saints John, as many a brother and fellow has done before him.

S.D. to Candidate. Is it of your own free will and accord.

Candidate. It is.

S.D. to Steward. Is he duly and truly prepared?

Steward. He is.

S.D. Is he worthy and well qualified?

Steward. He is.
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