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of a Fellow Craft Mason; so help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same.”

“Detach your hands and kiss the book which is the Holy Bible, twice.” The bandage is now (by one of the brethren) dropped over the other eye, and the Master says, “Brother [at the same time laying his hand on the top of the candidate’s head], what do you most desire?”

The candidate answers after his prompter, “More light.” The Master says, “Brethren, form on the square and assist in bringing our new made brother from darkness to light. ‘And God said let there be light, and there was light.'” At this instant all the brethren clap their hands and stamp on the floor as in the preceding degree. The Master says to the candidate, “Brother, what do you discover different from before?” The Master says after a short pause, “You now discover one point of the compass elevated above the square, which donates light in this degree; but as one is yet in obscurity, it is to remind you that you are yet one material point in the dark respecting Masonry.” The Master steps off from the candidate three or four steps, and says, Brother, you now discover me as master of this lodge approaching you from the east, under the sign and due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason; do as I do as near as you can and keep your

position.” The sign is given by drawing your right hand flat, with the palm of it next to your breast, across your breast from the left to the right side with some quickness, and dropping it down by your side; the due-guard is given by raising the left arm until that part of it between the elbow and shoulder is perfectly horizontal, and raising the rest of the arm in a vertical position, so that that part of the arm below the elbow and that part above it form a square. This is called the due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason. The two given together, are called the signs and due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason, and they are never given separately; they would not be recognized by a Mason if given separately. The Master, by the time he gives his steps, signs, and due-guard, arrives at the candidate

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and says, “Brother, I now present you with my right hand, in token of brotherly love and confidence, and with it the pass-grip and word of a Fellow Craft Mason.” The pass, or more properly the pass-grip, is given by taking each other by the right hand, as though going to shake hands, and each putting his thumb

between the fore and second fingers where they join the hand, and pressing the thumb between the joints. This is the pass-grip of a Fellow Craft Mason, the name of it is Shibboleth. Its origin will be explained in the lecture; the pass-grip some give without lettering or syllabling, and others give it in the same way they do the real grip; the real grip of a Fellow Craft Mason is given by putting the thumb on the joint of the second finger where it joins the hand, and crooking your thumb so that each can stick the nail of his thumb into the joint of the other; this is the real grip of a Fellow Craft Mason;

the name of it is Jachin, it is given in the following manner: If you wish to examine a person after haying taken each other by the grip, ask him, “What is this?”

Ans. “A grip.”

“A grip of what?”

Ans. “The grip of a Fellow Craft Mason.”

“Has it a name?”

Ans. “It has.

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