Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

CHAPTER LXIII
MASONIC SECRETS ILLUSTRATED.
THE EMBLEMS AND SECRETS OP ThIRTY-THREE Dx-
GREES *
PREPARATiON FOR FIUST OR ENTERED APPRENTICE DEGREE.
The candidate having satisfactorily answered the
quettions given on pages 96-0 and paid th. initiation
fee, ii prepared for initiation 88 follows.
The Deacons or Stewards strip him to his shirt and
drawers, and his drawers must be exchanged
for a pair furnished by the lodge
which f88ten with strings. The left
leg of these is rolled up above the knee.
If his shirt does not open in front it is
turned around, and if there are metal
buttons or studs on it they are removed.
The t~ft sleeve of his shirt is rolled up
above the elbow, and the left aide of hiin
shirt is tucked in; sothat the left leg, left
foot, left arm sad left breast are bare. A
slipperisput on hiB right foot, ahoodwink
Candidate du!i~ ~I over his cyes, and a small rope calle~1 a
t.ri~d~fpprenUc. cable tow is put once arowid hiu ngok.
ii ,~t three Masonic degrets termed Blue Lodge or Ancleuit
ti;1t Mns.rnry. are common to all the various Masonic Rites.
and are fully arid accurate l~ given in FREEMASU~43T ILLUBTRATE.
which Is also puhllahed bs .zra A. Conk, at 40cr.. for paper covered
and Thrta. for cloth hound volume of three degrees (876 page.)
onI~ the emblems and secrets of the first three degrees are gtve~n
bere.
tAKING ENTERED APPRENTICE ollI.IUATIo\. 48?
caaaida&. taking i~Z&Iaftd Appg.nzlcg OhligaUnn. ~a pge 10?.
“F~very Mason is under an obligation to obey the
laws of the lodge and the Grand Lodge. * * *
It is the obligation which make.9 the NIason, and the
difference between one Mason and another, consists
simply in the fact that one keep8 hi8 ubligation8 better
than another.
“An obligation is an essential part of a de~gree.”—
JiOrrls’8 Dwt.onar~j, Art. Obligation.