FC

Question 1

Are u a FC Mason

Answer 1

I am, try me

Question 2

How will u b tried

Answer 2

By the square

Question 3

Why by the square

Answer 3

Because it is an emblem of virtue and the principle working tool of this degree.

Question 4

What is a square

Answer 4

An angle of 90 degrees or the fourth part of a circle

Question 5

What makes u a FC mason

Answer 5

The Obligation

Question 6

Where did you receive the obligation

Answer 6

Within the body of a just and legally constituted lodge, duly assembled in a room or place representing the middle court of KsT

Question 7

Where were u prepared to be made a FC mason

Answer 7

In a room adjoining the lodge

Question 8

How were u prepared

Answer 8

By being divested of all metallic substances, being neither naked not clad, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked with a cable tow twice around my naked left arm, in which condition I was led to the door of the lodge by a brother

Question 9

U being hoodwinked, how did u know it was a door

Answer 9

By first meeting with resistance and then gaining admission

Question 10

How did u gain admission.

Answer 10

By three distinct knocks upon the outside of the door

Question 11

What was said to you from within

Answer 11

Who comes, who comes here

Question 12

What was your answer

Answer 12

I Paul Darwin who has been regularly initiated as an EA mason,served the proper time as such, and now desires further Light in masonry by being passed to the degree of FC

Question 13

What questions were then asked of you?

Answer 13

If it was of my own free will and accord I made the request, if I was duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified and made suitable proficiency in the preceding degree, and was properly vouched for, all of which being answered in the affirmative, I was asked by what further right I expected to gain admission

Question 14

What was your answer

Answer 14

By benefit of the pass word

Question 15

Had you the password

Answer 15

I had it not, but my conductor had it for me

Question 16

What was then told you

Answer 16

To await the time with patience, until my request should be made know. To the wm and his answer returned

Question 17

What was his answer

Answer 17

Let the candidate enter, and be received in due and ancient form

Question 18

Upon what were you received

Answer 18

Upon the angle of a square applied to my naked right breast, which was to teach me to square my actions by the square of virtue towards all mankind, more especially a brother mason

Question 19

How were you then disposed of

Answer 19

I was led twice regularly around the lodge room, then to the Jr. Warden in the south, the sw in the west and wm in the east, at each station the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door

Question 20

What did the wm then do with u

Answer 20

He ordered me to the sw, who taught me how to approach the H A of free masonry, the place of Masonic light in due and ancient form

Question 20

What was that due and ancient form

Answer 20

Taking two regular upright steps the first as in the preceding, then stepping off upon my right foot, bringing the heel of the left to the hollow of the right, my feet forming a right angle and my body erect.

Question 21

What was then done with you

Answer 21

I was made a FC mason

Question 22

How

Answer 22

In due and ancient form

Question 23

What was the due and ancient form

Answer 23

Kneeling upon my naked right knee, my left forming a square, my left arm extended forming a square, supported by a square, my right hand resting upon the H B, S and C in which due form I took upon myself the FC Mason’s obligation

Question 24

Have u that obligation

Answer 24

I have

Question 25

Will u give it to me

Answer 25

I will with your assistance

Question 26

Then begin and I will assist, if necessary (pt1)

Answer 26

I Paul Darwin of my own free will and accord, in the presence of almighty God and this FC Mason's lodge, do hereby and Hereon sincerely and solemnly promise and swear, as I have heretofore done, with these additions: that I will not communicate the secrets of this degree to any one, except it be to a true and lawful brother, or within the body of a just and legally constituted lodge, and not to him or them whom I may hear so to be, but unto him or them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial, due examination, or lawful information.

Question 27

Pt 2

Answer 27

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will stand to and abide by the rules and regulations of this or any other FC masons lodge, of which I may become a member I furthermore promise and swear, that I will answer and obey all dues signs and summons handed or sent to me from a FC Mason's lodge or from a brother FC mason, if within length of my cable tow.

Question 28

Pt 3

Answer 28

I furthermore promise and swear, that I will help aid and assist all poor and penny less FC Mason's, so far aesthete necessity may require and my ability will permit, they appealing to me as such, and I deeming them worthy. And I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not cheat wrong nor defraud a FC Mason's lodge, or a Brother FC mason, out of the value of anything knowingly, not permit it to be done, if within my power to prevent it.

Question 29

Final

Answer 29

All of which I sincerely promise and swear to keep and _______, without the least equivocation, mental reservation or secret evasion of mind; binding my self under the penalty of having my left breast torn open, my heart and vitals taken thence and cast as a prey, to the vultures of the air or the beast of the field, should I knowingly or wittingly violate or transgress any part of the FC Mason's obligation so help me God and keep me steadfast.

Question 30

After the obligation what was asked you

Answer 30

In my then condition, what I most desired

Question 31

What was your answe

Answer 31

Further light

Question 32

Did u receive it

Answer 32

I did

Question 33

How

Answer 33

By order of the WM and the assistance of the brethren