Tyling

Question 1

What do you seek?

Answer 1

To enter the temple

Question 2

Are you a Freemason?

Answer 2

My Bros and \sis recognise me as such

Question 3

Describe a Freemason

Answer 3

A man or woman free and of strict morals

Question 4

When were you made a Freemason?

Answer 4

In a lodge, just and perfect

Question 5

What is required for a lodge to be just and perfect?

Answer 5

Three direct it, five illumine it, seven make it just and perfect

Question 6

How will I recognise that you are a Freemason?

Answer 6

By signs, words and a grip

Question 7

How are Freemasons’ signs made?

Answer 7

By the square, the level and the perpendicular

Question 8

Stand to order

Answer 8

(This is done)

Question 9

Give the penal sign

Answer 9

(This is done)

Question 10

Give me the word

Answer 10

I can neither read, nor write but only spell. Give me the first letter, I will give you the second (letter the word)

Question 11

Give me the grip

Answer 11

(This is done)

Question 12

What is the shape of your lodge

Answer 12

A rectangle

Question 13

How long is it?

Answer 13

From east to west

Question 14

How wide is it

Answer 14

From south to north

Question 15

How high is it?

Answer 15

From the zenith to the nadir

Question 16

What supports your lodge?

Answer 16

Three great pillars named wisdom, strength and beauty, which are symbolically respresented by the RWM and the two wardens

Question 17

How do these allegorical pillars support your lodge, i.e. preside over the operative work if Freemasons?

Answer 17

Wisdom conceives, strength executes, beauty adorns

Question 18

Why did you request admission into Freemasonry?

Answer 18

Because I was in darkness and aspired to the light

Question 19

At what time do Freemasons open and close their work?

Answer 19

Symbolically, the work is opened at high noon and closed at midnight

Question 20

What is your age?

Answer 20

Three years old

Question 21

On entering

Answer 21

Whisper the Mot Annual in the ear of the Tyler

Question 22

Positioned between the columns

Answer 22

Stand to order and advance by the three regular steps

Question 23

Successively (with the sign) salute

Answer 23

The RWM, the SW on the left and the JW on the right

Question 24

Standing to order again

Answer 24

Take your seat in the north

Question 25

When standing between the columns and after having saluted with the sign, the RWM may ask:
. Where do you come from?
. What is to be done in your lodge?

Answer 25

. From a lodge of Saint John
. One learns to be tolerant, to fight injustice, to realise brotherhood amongst men. Crowns are therein made for virtue and chains for vice - or - dungeons are hewn for vice