What is the significance of the number of knocks in Freemasonry?

Knocking symbolically signifies the candidate's request for initiation, grounded in the triad of asking, seeking, and knocking 1. Within this framework, asking corresponds to acceptance, seeking to light, and knocking to initiation itself, representing the earnestness of the aspirant seeking admission and truth 1. On a lodge's daily operational level, knocking at the door also represents a visiting Freemason presenting himself to request entry under the traditional Right of Visitation 1.

The supplied library passages do not set out the specific symbolic meanings attached to particular numbers or patterns of knocks in the Craft degrees.