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W.M. Is he worthy and well qualified?

S.D. He is.

W.M. Has he made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree?

S.D. He has.

W.M. Since he comes endowed with all these essential qualifications,
it is my will and pleasure that he enter this Lodge of Fellow Crafts, and
that you receive him in due and ancient form.

The Senior Deacon returns to the door of the preparation room, opens
it wide, and says to the Steward:

S.D. It is the will and pleasure of the Worshipful Master that he enter
this Lodge of Fellow Crafts.

The Stewards conduct the candidate between them into the Lodge,
and, after closing the door behind them, they salute and take their
seats.

The Senior Deacon places his left hand upon the Candidate's right
shoulder and says:

S.D. to Candidate. My brother, it is the will and pleasure of the
Worshipful Master that I receive you into this Lodge of Fellow Crafts in
due and ancient form. You are received on the angle of the Square at
your naked right breast; which is to teach you that the Square of virtue
should be a rule and guide to your conduct in all your future action with
mankind.

The Senior Deacon now takes the candidate's right hand in his own
left hand, and conducts him with slow and measured steps in a direct
line nearly to the North-east corner of the Lodge, and turning at right
angles, thence to near the South-east corner; thence to the South-west
corner and thence back to near the North-west corner.

The same circuit is then repeated.

On their first circuit about the Lodge, as they pass the Master's,
Senior Warden's and Junior

Warden's stations respectively, each of those officers give one rap. On
their second circuit each officer greets their passage by two raps. During
their progress the Master reads from the seventh chapter of Amos,
commencing to read at the first rap given by the Junior Warden, and
timing it so as to finish reading at the end of the march.

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