Fellow Craft Degree

Five are required by Masonic law to make a legal lodge of Fellow Craft

WM, SW, JW, SD, JD, yet seven besides the Tyler, generally officiate and take their seats as in the EA Degree.

The three burning lights the holy Bible open to Amos chapter 7 verse 7 and the square with one point above the square to indicate one degree into knowledge of masonry.

Because as you travel in masonry you are blind until coming to light.

To remind you that you are now twice bonded to the craft.

To gain admittance to a lodge or to alert the inner sanatorium.

One rap calls the Craft to order. Second Rap calls up all Officers in the lodge. Third Rap calls up all members in the lodge to stand. The WM.

One rap calls the Craft to order. Second Rap calls up all Officers in the lodge. Third Rap calls up all members in the lodge to stand. The WM.

I am. Try me.

By the square.

Because it is an emblem of morality, and one of the working tools of my profession.

An angle of ninety degrees, or a fourth part of a circle.

In a regularly constituted lodge of Fellow Crafts.

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.

To signify as a Fellow Craft that I was under a double tie to the fraternity.

By three distinct knocks.

To the three jewels of a Fellow Craft. An attentive ear an instructive tongue and a faithful breast.

Who comes here.

A brother 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.

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.

By the benefit of the pass.

I did not; but my conductor gave it for me.

I was bid to wait with patience until the WM should be informed of my request and his answer returned.

Let him enter, in the name of the Lord, and be received in due form.

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.

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.

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.