Ea Mason

Question 1

Three Precious Jewels

Answer 1

Listening ear, a Silent tongue and faithful heart

Question 2

What were you next presented with

Answer 2

The Grand Master’s check-word

Question 3

What is the Grand Master’s Check -word

Answer 3

Truth

Question 4

Why were you neither nake nor clothed

Answer 4

Because Masonry regards no one for his worldly wealth or honors; it is the internal, nd not the external qualifications of a man that should recommend him to be made a Mason.

Question 5

Why were you conducted once around the Lodge?

Answer 5

That the brethern might see that I was suly and truly prepared

Question 6

Why were you caused to knell on your naked left knee

Answer 6

Because the left side is cosidered to be the weakest part of man; it was therefore to show that it was the weaker part of Masonry I was then entering upon, being that of an Entered Apprentice.

Question 7

What is a Lodge

Answer 7

A certain number of Masons duly assembled, with the Holy Bible, Square, and compasses, and a charter, kr warrant wmpowering them to work.

Question 8

Where did our ancient brethren usually meet

Answer 8

On a High hill or in a low valley

Question 9

Why so did they meet in these places

Answer 9

To better to observe the approach of cowans, or eavesdroppers, ascending or desecnding

Question 10

What is the form and covering of a Lodge

Answer 10

An oblong square, extnding from east to west, between the north and south, from the earth to the heavens, and from the surface to the centre.

Question 11

What supports this vast fabric

Answer 11

Three great pillars, constituting Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty

Question 12

What furniture has a Lodge

Answer 12

The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses

Question 13

To whom are they dedicated

Answer 13

The Bible is dedicatd to God, the quare to the Master, and the compasses to the craft.

Question 14

How many lights has a Lodge and how are they situated

Answer 14

East,West and the South

Question 15

How many Jewels has a Lodge

Answer 15

Six: three movable and three immovable

Question 16

What are the movable Jewels

Answer 16

The rough ashler, the perfect ashler and the trestle-board

Question 17

What are the three immovable jewels

Answer 17

The square, level and plumb

Question 18

How should a Lodge be situated

Answer 18

Due east and west

Question 19

To whom were Lodges dedicated in ancient times

Answer 19

To King Solomon

Question 20

How did Enterd Apprentices serve their Master in ancient timesa, and how should they in modern How were they represented

Answer 20

with freedom fervency and zeal. By chalk, charcoal and clay

Question 21

How were you received

Answer 21

On the point of a sharp instrument pressing my naked left breast

Question 22

How were you then diposed of

Answer 22

I was conducted to the centre of the Lodge, caused to kneel, and attend at prayer

Question 23

After the obligation, what were you then asked

Answer 23

what I most desired

Question 24

What are the three great lights of Masonry

Answer 24

The Holy Bible square and compasses

Question 25

What are the three lesser lights and what do they represent

Answer 25

Three burning tapers, in a trangular position, They are the sun moon and Master of the Lodge.

Question 26

The working-tool of a Entered Apprentice Mason,

Answer 26

Twenty-four-inch gauge and common gavel

Question 27

What new name were you presented with

Answer 27

Caution

Question 28

What are the ornaments of a Lodge and why

Answer 28

The Mosaic pavement, the indenteed tessel, and blazing star The mosaic pavement is a representation of the Ground Floor of King Solomon's Temple, with a blazing star in the centre; the indented tessel, that beautiful tessellated border which surrounds it

Question 29

What are the points of your profession

Answer 29

Brothererly love, relief and truth

Question 30

How did Entered Apprentices serve their Master in ancient times, and how should they in modern

Answer 30

with freedom, fervency, and zeal

Question 31

How do you know yourself to be a Mason

Answer 31

By having often been tried, never denied and willing to be tried again

Question 32

How shalll I know you to be a Mason

Answer 32

By certain signs, tokens, words, and perfect points of my entrance.

Question 33

What are signs

Answer 33

Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars

Question 34

What are tokens

Answer 34

Certain friendly or brotherly grips, by which one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light

Question 35

Does a Sign have an allusion

Answer 35

It has, to the penalty of my obligation

Question 36

From whence came you as an Entered Apprentice Mason

Answer 36

From a Lodge of the Holy St. John of Jerusalem

Question 37

What came you here to do

Answer 37

To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Mason

Question 38

How were you prepared

Answer 38

By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable tow around my neck conditionI was conducted to the door of a Lodge by friends afterward found to be a brother

Question 39

What is the Password for EA degree and what does it mean

Answer 39

BOAZ which denotes Strength

Question 40

Why were you need a barefoot nor shod

Answer 40

It was in comformityto the ancient isrealites custom.

Question 41

Why were you received on the point of A-sharp instrument pressing your naked left breast

Answer 41

As that was an instrument of torture to my flesh so my the recollection of it to be to my conscience should I ever presumed to reveal the secrets of Free mason

Question 42

Why were you calls to give 3 distinct knocks

Answer 42

To alarm the lodge to inform the wishful master that I was prepared for masonry and in accordance to the ancient custom

Question 43

Why were you calls to rest your right hand on The Holy Bible square and compass

Answer 43

Because the right hand was supposed by our ancient brethren to be the seat of fidelity and so they worshipped Deity under the name of Fides which was suppose to be represented by the right hand joine

Question 44

Explanations and the certain signs and tokens and words and the points of my entrance

Answer 44

They are for nekotoroe depeche Toro and the manual and a pedestal which alludes to the for karnels virtues by temperance fortitude prudence and Justice

Question 45

What does chalk charcoal and clay represent

Answer 45

Because it will say there is nothing more free than chalk which under the slightest touch these a trace behind nothing more beverage in charcoal to mouth when will live the most obdurate metal wili yield Nothing more zillions than clay or our mother Earth to bring forth