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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 Amos VII and one point of the
compasses underneath the square. The Wardens reverse their columns,
erect in the West, down in the South.

The Lodge is now duly open in the Fellow Craft degree, for the
purpose of passing an Entered Apprentice.

CEREMONIES OF PASSING.

W.M. Brother Stewards, you will repair to the preparation room, where
you will find brother A. B. in waiting, whom you will duly prepare for
passing to the second degree of Masonry.

The Stewards step to the altar, make the proper sign, and leaving the
altar on their right proceed to the preparation room.

After the customary questions have been put by the Stewards and
duly answered by the candidate, they prepare him in the manner laid
down for this degree, the candidate wearing his apron as an Entered
Apprentice. They then conduct him to the door of the Lodge, on which
they require him to make three distinct knocks.

When these are heard in the Lodge the Senior Deacon rises from his
seat, and says:

S.D. Worshipful Master, there is an alarm at the door of the
preparation room.

W.M. to S.D. Attend to the alarm.

The Senior Deacon, leaving the altar on his right. proceeds to the door
of the preparation room, and answers the alarm by three similar knocks
on the door, which is then opened by the Stewards just enough to admit
of conversation.

S.D. Who comes here?

Steward. A brother who has been regularly initiated as an Entered
Apprentice, and now wishes to receive more light in Masonry by being
passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft.

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

Candidate. It is.
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