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 A. A Mosaic pavement, the ground-floor of the lodge; blazing star, the centre; and indented tarsel, the border around it.

Q. What is the other furniture in a Lodge?

A. A Bible, compass, and Square.

Q. Who do they properly belong to?

A. The Bible to God, the compass to the Master, and square to the Fellow-craft.

Q. Have you any jewels in the Lodge?

A. Yes.

Q. How many?

A. Six, three moveable, and three immoveable.

Q. What are the moveable jewels?

A. The Square, Level, and Plumb-rule.

Q. What are their uses?

A. The square, to lay down true and right lines; a level, to try all horizontals; And the plumb-rule, to try all uprights.

Q. What are the immoveable jewels?

A. The trazel-board, rough-ashler, and broached thurnal.

Q. What are their uses?

A. A trazel-board, for the Master to draw his designs upon; rough-ashler, for the fellow craft to try their jewels upon; and the broached-thurnal for the Entered Prentice to learn to work upon.

Q. Have you any lights in the Lodge?

A. Yes, three.

Q. What do they represent?

A. The sun; moon, and Master-mason.

N.B.—These lights are three large candles, placed on high candlesticks.

Q. Why so?

A. The Sun to rule the day, the Moon the night, and the Master-Mason his Lodge.