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The Master, with the assistance of the Senior Warden or some other
well-informed brother, rehearses the three sections of the Entered
Apprentice Lecture; after which the candidate is seated.

W.M. As an Entered Apprentice, from whence come you?

S.W. From the Lodge of the Holy Saints John at Jerusalem.

W.M. What come you here to do?

S.W. To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry.

W.M. Then I presume you are a Mason.

S.W. I am so taken and accepted among brothers and fellows.

W.M. What makes you a Mason?

S.W. My obligation.

W.M. How do you know yourself to be a Mason?

S.W. By having been often tried and never denied, and am willing to
be tried again.

W.M. How shall I know you to be a Mason?

S.W. By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my
entrance.

W.M. What are signs?

S.W. Right angles, horizontals and perpendiculars.

W.M. What is a token?

S.W. A certain friendly and brotherly grip whereby one Mason may
know another in the dark as well as the light.

W.M. Give me a sign. (Gives sign.)

W.M. Has that an allusion?

S.W. It has; to the penalty of my obligation.

W.M. (Taking S.W. by right hand as in ordinary hand shaking.)
Give me a token? I hail.

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