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of the compasses bare, the other being hidden; which is to teach you
that as yet you have received light in Masonry but partially.

The Master now retires to the East and advancing says:

W.M. to Candidate. You now discover me approaching from the East
under the due guard (makes due guard) and sign (makes sign) of a
Fellow Craft. In token of the continuance of my brotherly love and favor,
I again present you with my right hand, and with it the pass, token of
the pass, grip and word of a Fellow Craft (gives them). Arise! Salute
the Wardens as a Fellow Craft.

The Master returns to his station in the East, and seats himself and
the Lodge by one rap. The Senior Deacon conducts the candidate to the
Junior Warden's station in the South, leaving the altar on the right, and
the candidate salutes the Junior Warden with the due guard and sign of
a Fellow Craft. They then pass to the Senior Warden's station in the
West, and the candidate salutes him in the same manner; and lastly
they go to West of the altar, and the candidate salutes the Master as he
did the Wardens.

W.M. to Candidate. My brother, you will now be reconducted to the
Senior Warden in the West, who will teach you how to wear your apron
as a Fellow Craft.

The Senior Deacon conducts the candidate to the Senior Warden, and
says:

S.D. to S.W. Brother Senior Warden, it is the will and pleasure of the
Worshipful Master in the East that our newly admitted brother be taught
how to wear his apron as a Fellow Craft.

S.W. to S.D. You will see that the orders of the Worshipful Master are
obeyed.

The candidate is invested by the Senior Deacon, who then conducts
him to the right hand of the Master in the East.

W.M. to Candidate. I now present you with the working tools of a
Fellow Craft. They are the Plumb, Square and Level.

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

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