Ritual of the Lodge at Worms

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The Order's insignia: A whole green silk wide ribbon upon which Libertas is embroidered, along with an apron with golden fringes. Everything is sea-green and gold.

The first lays his right hand on his left shoulder, pulls it trembling and bending like a horn down across the body — this is the question sign. The second from the left to the right side underneath where the apron is, across the belly with a hollow hand as if he wanted to cut his belly open. A sign that one does not shun the elements in order to make oneself worthy of the Order. That is the answer.

Knocking, ....

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The 1st degree is the Rosicrucian. It is divided into Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master, which however make one office, just as the Rosicrucian, the Knight R. C., and the supreme judge at the tribunal are counted exactly as three, but are only one in security, and this whole post is called: the Crusader, the Apprentice, the Knight R. C., the Fellowcraft, and the supreme judge the Master.

This Apprentice Rosicrucian or the first chamber is entirely black. At the end stand three pillars, upon which are the words: Beauty, Wisdom, Strength. All brothers are dressed in black. The entire degree of the Apprentice represents the suffering of Christ. There can be no more than 12 brothers and the Grand Master is called Redeemer in the darkness.

Before a knight can be admitted at the sunrise, he must first cleanse himself entirely, renounce all his sins, and be without the slightest blemish and reproach of his conscience, in general, he must be pure and unspotted within himself. — When he is led inside, he receives the bath of reconciliation, he takes the oath of secrecy and of abstinence from future sins.

Morally, this degree contains the first retrogradation into one's own heart and conscience, just as the substance of God passed over into a human body through the model of Christ, and tells us that we should leave the dross of our passions behind in the valley of the animal part of our body, which is otherwise called the creation or the raw Chaos Elementa Elemental Chaos.

Physically considered, it comprises the putrefaction of all things and how everything goes back into its first essence, as it were, poured out without a vessel. This is the true sense of the Apprentice, this is