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First Degree<br />
WM - Do you further seriously declare on your<br />
honour that, avoiding fear on the one hand and<br />
rashness on the other, you will steadily<br />
persevere through the ceremony of your<br />
Initiation, and if once admitted, you will<br />
afterwards act and abide by the ancient usages<br />
and established customs of the Order?<br />
JD - prompting Can aloud<br />
I do (Can repeats)<br />
WM - Bro SW, you will direct the JD to instruct<br />
the Can to advance to the pedestal in due form.<br />
SW - Bro JD, it is the WM's command that you<br />
instruct the Can to advance to the pedestal in<br />
due form.<br />
JD - instructs Can to step off with l f and leads<br />
him squaring where necessary to position facing<br />
WM and about four feet from the pedestal, and,<br />
still holding Can's hand, instructs him in a<br />
whisper to place his feet together, then to turn<br />
out his r f so as to form a square (ie the lf<br />
pointing E and the r f pointing S).<br />
JD - aloud to Can and ensuring Can suits action<br />
to word Take a s with your lf, bringing the h<br />
together in the form of a square. Take another, a<br />
little longer, h to h as before. Another, still<br />
longer, h together as before. (Can should arrive<br />
so that he can kneel without further advancing,<br />
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