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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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