20 QUESTIONS EVERY EA SHOULD KNOW HOW TO ANSWER*

 

 --------- 20 QUESTIONS EVERY EA SHOULD KNOW HOW TO ANSWER* --------- 

Here are 20 questions that every Mason should be able to answer knowledgeably before
they pass to Fellow Craft.  Can you answer them?  If you cannot, you have not paid attention to what Ritual communicates.

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Question #1: What are the three central purposes for doing your Apprentice Work?

 

Question #2: What are the 11 Apprentice Working Tools that you are to work with or develop when you do the Work that the Apprentice Degree asks you to do?  (Name them.)

 

Question #3: What was the very first Apprentice Working Tool that embraced you, how does it instruct  you to say "no" appropriately, and what is the determining factor(s) in its use?

 

Question #4: What is the first Working Tool that you must Set to make all your other Apprentice Work possible, why is this so, and how is this done?

 

Question #5: What are Vices & Superfluities, how are they the same, and what is the central difference between them? (Provide and explain examples.)

 

Question #6: What are seven Virtues revealed to you during the Apprentice Degree and how would you apply each of them in your life?

 

Question #7: What does hanging your Plumb Line Establish for the Working Tools of the Apprentice? 

 

Question #8: What diligent process do you go through to determine what's most important to you? 

 

Question #9: What are Standards & Boundaries, how are they similar, and what makes then different? (Provide examples of each.)

 

Question #10: When you are asked what Passions & Desires are, their similarities, and their differences, what should you say?

 

Question #11: What advice was given to you about Circumscribing & Subduing, and which Apprentice Working Tool are you supposed to use to do so?

 

Question #12: What Apprentice Working Tool builds your Square of Virtue?

Question # 13: Which Apprentice Working Tools are used to both internalize & externalize the disciplines the your Apprentice Working Tools represent?

Question #14: Which Apprentice Working Tool represents your Obligation? (Explain this in detail.)

Question #15: What dual purpose does the Common Gavel serve and why?

Question #16: What three other Apprentice Working Tools assist you building and internalizing the disciplines represented by the Level?

Question #17: What three things does the Apprentice Apron configuration represent?  (Explain Each)

 

Question #18: How are you taught Time Management, what does the 8-8-8 truly represent, and what must you first do to assure that you can properly manage your time?

 

Question #19: What distinctions can you draw between Masonry and Freemasonry and the Work of each? 

 

Question#20: How would you know for sure that you were doing either Masonic or Freemasonic work? Please explain.

 

FOR FURTHER LIGHT:

 

 

Enjoy!

Coach Nagy

* Before they Pass to FC!