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 Q. How high are they?

A. Eighteen cubits.

Q. How much in circumferance?

A. Twelve cubits.

Q. What are they adorned with?

A. Two chapiters.

Q. How high were the chapiters?

A. Five cubits. (1. Kings, vii.)

Q- What are they adorned with?

A. Net work and pomegranetes.

Q. How came you to the middle chamber?

A. By a winding pair of stairs.

Q. How many steps?

A. Seven or more.

Q. Why seven or more?

A. Because seven or more make a just and perfect Lodge.

Q. When you came to the door of the middle chamber, who did you see?

A. A Warden.

Q. What did he demand of you?

A. Three things.

Q. What were they?

A. A Sign, Token, and Word.

N.B.—The Sign is, placing the right hand the left breast; the Token is, by joining your right hand to the person that demands it, and squeezing him with the ball of the thumb of the first knuckle of the middle finger; and the word is JACHIN.

Q. How high was the door of the middle chamber, what did you see?

A. The resemblance of the letter G.

Q. What doth that G denote?

A. One that is greater than you.

Q. Who is greater than I, that am a Free and Accepted Mason, the Master of a Lodge?