by unworthy motives, you freely and voluntarily offer yourself a candidate for the mysteries of Masonry?” Candidate answers, “I do.”  Senior Deacon to candidate, “Do you sincerely declare, upon your honor before these gentlemen, that you are prompt to solicit the privileges of Masonry, by a favorable opinion conceived of the institution, a desire of knowledge, and a sincere wish of being serviceable to your fellow-creatures?” Candidate answers, “I do.”  Senior Deacon to candidate, “Do you sincerely declare, upon your honor before these gentlemen, that you will cheerfully conform to all the ancient established usages and customs of the fraternity?” Candidate answers, “I do.”  After the above questions are proposed and answered, and the result reported to the Master, he says, “Brethren, at the request of Mr. A. B., he has been proposed and accepted in the regular form.  I therefore recommend him as a proper candidate for the Mysteries of Masonry, and worthy to partake of the privileges of the fraternity; and in consequence of a declaration of his intentions, voluntarily made, I believe he will cheerfully conform to the rules of the Order.”  The candidate, during the time, is divested of all his apparel (shirt excepted), and furnished with a pair of drawers, kept in the Lodge for the use of candidates; he is then blindfolded, his left foot bare, his right in a slipper, his left breast and arm naked, and a rope, called a cable-tow, ’round his neck and left arm (the rope is not put ’round the arm in all Lodges) in which posture the candidate is conducted to the door, where he is caused to give, or the conductor gives, three distinct knocks, which are answered by three from within; the conductor gives one more, which is also answered by one from within.  The door is then partly opened, and the Junior Deacon generally asks, “Who comes there?  Who comes there?  Who comes there?” The conductor alias the Senior Deacon, answers, “A poor, blind candidate, who has long been desirous of having and receiving a part of the rights and benefits of this worshipful Lodge, dedicated (some say erected) to God, and held forth to the holy order of St. John, as all true fellows and brothers have done, who have gone this way before him.”  The Junior Deacon then asks, “Is it of his own free will and accord he makes this request?  Is he duly and truly prepared?  Worthy and well qualified?  And properly avouched for?” All of which being answered in the affirmative, the Junior Deacon says to the Senior Deacon, “By what further right does he expect to obtain this benefit?” The Senior Deacon replies, “By being a man, free born, of lawful age, and under the tongue of good report.”  The Junior Deacon then says, “Since this is the case you will wait till the Worshipful Master in the East is made acquainted with his request, and his answer returned.”  The Junior Deacon repairs to the Master, when the same questions are asked, and answers returned as at the door; after which the Master says, “Since he comes endowed