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  1. What is the Hiramic legend actually teaching?

    What did Wilmshurst make of the substituted secrets?

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  2. What does the Grand Lodge of India expect of a lodge each year?

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  3. Why does a lodge open and close in each degree?

    What is the opening lecture for? · How did the practice arise?

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  4. What is the significance of the Master Mason's apron?

    What do the collars and their colours denote?

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  5. Why is the lodge tyled and what does the Tyler guard against?

    What is the significance of the sword? · How did the office arise?

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  6. What does a newly initiated Freemason in India do next?

    How does he learn the ritual? · What is expected of him in his first year?

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  7. What is the significance of the Master's gavel?

    Why do the three principal officers each have one?

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  8. What does a Regional Grand Lodge do under the Grand Lodge of India?

    How are the four Regions organised?

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  9. What does the plumb, square and level teach together?

    Why are they the Wardens' jewels? · How did they become moral emblems?

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  10. What is a Lodge of Instruction and why does it exist?

    How was ritual taught before printed rituals? · Are rituals allowed to be written down?

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  11. What is the significance of the Chapter's Sojourners?

    Why are there three of them? · What do they discover?

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  12. Why is the Fellowcraft degree concerned with the senses?

    What are the five orders of architecture doing in the ritual? · Who put them there?

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  13. How does a lodge in India conduct its charity work?

    What causes do Indian lodges usually support? · How is relief given to a brother in distress?

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  14. What is the significance of the lodge being called a temple?

    Why is it said to extend from east to west? · What are the ornaments, furniture and jewels?

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  15. What is the Royal Ark Mariner jewel and what does it mean?

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  16. What is the significance of circumambulation?

    Why does the candidate move sunwise? · Is this borrowed from older rites?

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  17. How does the Grand Lodge of India regulate its lodges?

    What are the duties of a lodge secretary?

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  18. What is the meaning of the Forty-seventh Problem of Euclid?

    Why is it the Past Master's jewel? · What did Pythagoras have to do with it?

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  19. Why is the Royal Arch Chapter said to be attached to a lodge?

    What is the relationship between Craft and Chapter in England? · How does a Master Mason become a Companion?

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  20. What is the Deacon's office and where did it come from?

    Why do Deacons carry wands? · What did the office involve before 1813?

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  21. What are the qualifications for joining a lodge in India today?

    What happens at the ballot?

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  22. What is the origin of the Master Mason's word?

    Why is it said to be lost?

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  23. Why does the Chapter speak of the Sacred and Mysterious Name?

    What is the significance of the pedestal?

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  24. What is the significance of the rough and perfect ashlars?

    What is the trestle board and how does it relate? · How do the three jewels of the lodge fit together?

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  25. How does a Freemason in India progress through the offices?

    What does an Installed Master do afterwards?

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