Entered Apprentice I
This represents that darkness in which an uninitiated man stands as regards the Masonic life. For this reason it is removed at the moment of enlightenment.
What is the Hoodwink
The Sun, the Moon and the Master of the Lodge
Who are the Lesser Lights?
Represent(s) those moral and spiritual virtues, habits and forces by means of which a man is enabled to reshape the crude and often stubborn materials of his own nature in order to adjust himself to the needs and requirements of human society.
What are the Working Tools of the Entered Apprentice?
The tenets of a Mason's profession.
What is “Brotherly Love, Truth and Relief?”
Moses' Brother
Who is Aaron
A symbol of all those external restraints by which a man is controlled by others, or by forces outside himself. If a man does not keep the law of his own free will he must be forced to keep it by compulsion.
What is the Cable-tow?
Means of recognition by which, among strangers, we are able to prove others or ourselves to he regular Master Masons in order to enter into fraternal fellowship.
What are The Words, Grips and Tokens ?
Himself a symbol, one of the noblest in the whole emblematic system of the Craft.
What is an Entered Apprentice?
Guttereal, Pectoral, Manual and Pedal.
What alludes to the Four Cardinal Virtues?”
Freedom, Fervency, and Zeal
Who is Hermon?
A group of Masons with a Warrant or Charter legally empowering them to work.
What is the Lodge?
Rough ashlar, perfect ashlar, and trestle board
What the Ceremony of Salutation ?
Gave its teaching to you as a Man and a beginning Mason. [Daily Double]
What is the First Degree?
Evidence of Candidates sincerity of purpose
What is “significance of the obligation?”
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye, shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
What is Matthew 7:7?
The most important article of furniture in a Lodge room, and at the same time a symbol of that place which the worship of God holds in Masonry-a place at the centre, around which all else revolves.
What is the Altar?
The emblem of purity and the badge of a Mason.
What is the Apron?
Represents the position of the hand(s) when taking the oath.
What is the Due Guard of Entered Apprentice?
Wisdom, Strength and Beauty.
What are the three "Supports" of the Lodge?
Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist
WHo are the Patron Saints?
The Volume of the Sacred Law, the Square and the Compasses.
What are the Three Great Lights?
Traditionally the place where the cornerstone of a building is laid; when the Apprentice is made to stand there it is because he is the cornerstone of the future Craft.
What is the North-east Corner?
This alludes to the penalty of the Entered Apprentice obligation.
What is the Sign of the Entered Apprentice (The Sign)?
Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice.
What are the Four Cardinal Virtues?
A woman of the Moabite tribe, was married to Boaz.
Who is Ruth?