A. Because it is an emblem of morality, and one of the working-tools of my profession.
Q. What is a square?
A. An angle of ninety degrees, or a fourth part of a circle.
Q. Where were you made a Fellow Craft?
A. In a regularly constituted Lodge of Fellow Crafts.
Q. How were you prepared?
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A. By being divested of all metals, neither naked nor clothed, barefoot nor shod, hoodwinked, with a cable-tow twice about my right arm, in which condition I was conducted to the door of a Lodge by a brother.
Q. Why had you a cable-tow twice about your right arm?
A. To signify, as a Fellow Craft, that I was under a double tie to the fraternity.
Q. How gained you admission?
A. By three distinct knocks.
Q. To what do they allude?
A. To the three jewels of a Fellow Craft–an attentive ear an instructive tongue, and a faithful breast.
Q. What was said to you from within?
A. Who comes there.
Q. Your answer?
A. Brother A. B., who has been regularly initiated Entered Apprentice, and now wishes to receive more light in Masonry, by being passed to the degree of Fellow Craft.
Q. What were you then asked?
A. If it was of my own free-will and accord, if I was worthy and well qualified, duly and truly prepared, had 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 or benefit I expected to gain admission.
Q. Your answer?
A. By the benefit of the pass.
Q. Did you give the pass?
A. I did not; but my conductor gave it for me,
Q. What followed?
A. I was bid to wait with patience until the Worshipful Master should be informed of my request and his answer returned.
Q. What answer did he return?
A. Let him enter, in the name of the Lord, and be received in due form.
Q. How were you received?
A. On the angle of the square presented to my naked right breast, which was to teach me that the square of virtue should be the rule and guide of my conduct, in all my future transactions with mankind.
Q. How were you then disposed of?
A. I was conducted twice around the Lodge to the Junior Warden in the south, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as at the door.
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Q. How did the Junior Warden dispose of you?
A. He directed me to pass on to the Senior Warden in the west, and he to the Worshipful Master in the east, where the same questions were asked and like answers returned as before.
Q. How did the Worshipful Master dispose of you?
A. He ordered me to be returned to the Senior Warden in the west, who taught me to approach the east by two upright regular steps, my feet forming an angle of a square, my body erect at the altar before the Worshipful Master in the east.
Q. What did the Worshipful Master then do with you?
A. He made me a Fellow Craft in due form.
Q. What was that due form?
A. Kneeling on my naked right knee, my left forming a square, my right hand on the Holy Bible, square, and compasses, my left arm forming a right angle supported by the square in which due form I took the oath of a Fellow Craft. (Some repeat the oath.)
Q. After the obligation, what were you then asked?
A. What I most desired.
Q. Your answer?
A. More light in Masonry.
Q. Did you receive light?
A. I did, by the order of the Worshipful Master, and the assistance of the brethren.
Q. On being brought to light, what did you first discover, more than you had heretofore discovered?
A. One point of the compasses elevated above the square, which was to signify that I had received light in Masonry by points. Q. What did you then discover?
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