The Universal Language of Freemasonry - ArchiMeD - Johannes ...

Chapter 9 - Masonic and Anti-Masonic Literature 757
Q: How were you received? Q: How were you received?
A: Upon the sharp gaze of the trainmaster
applied to my
physiognomy [...].
Q: How were you then disposed
of?
A: I was seated in a chair near the
train-master's desk, and asked if
I put my trust in safety-coupling
devices.
A: On the point of a sharp
instrument pressing my naked
left breast.
Q: How were you then disposed
of?
A: I was conducted to the centre of
the Lodge, caused to kneel, and
attend at prayer.
Q: After attending at prayer, what
were you then asked?
A: In whom I put my trust.
Q: Your answer? Q: Your answer?
A: Not if I know myself, I do n't. A: In God.
Q: What was then done with you? Q: What followed?
A: I was led up and down the yard
three times to accustom me to
the noise of the trains, then to
the chief dispatcher.
Q: How were you then disposed
of?
A: I was seated upon a brake-wheel
before a train-box, and caused to
take the following horrible and
binding oath: "I, Steve Sears, do
hereby and hereon most
everlastingly and diabolically
swear, by the great Horn Spoon,
that I will always remit and
never conceal any of the cash
collected by me as conductor,
and that I will not cut, make,
use, collect, or remit any cash
fares less than those found in the
regular tariff-book. [...]
A: [...] I was taken by the right
hand [...].
Q: Where did you follow your
conductor?
A: Once around the Lodge, to the
Junior Warden's station in the
south [...]. [...]
Q: How did the Worshipful Master
dispose of you?
A: [...] Kneeling on my naked left
knee, my right forming a
square, my left hand
supporting the Holy Bible,
square, and compasses, my
right resting thereon, in which
due form I took the solemn
oath of an Entered Apprentice,
which is as follows [...]:
"I, ..., of my own free will and
accord, [...] do hereby and
hereon [...] most solemnly and
sincerely promise and swear,
that I will always hail, ever
conceal, and never reveal, any
of the arts, parts, or points
Points of the hidden mysteries
of Ancient Free Masonry [...].