Q. Did you give that pass-word?  A. I did not; my conductor gave it for me.

Q. Give it?  A. Golgotha. (It is given as before described.)

Q. What was then said to you?  A. Wait with faith and humility, and soon an answer shall be returned to your request.

Q. What was the answer of the Grand Commander?  A. That I should be admitted.

Q. What did the Grand Commander then demand?  A. Who have you there in charge, Sir Knight?

Q. What answer was returned?  A. A pilgrim penitent, traveling from afar, who, having passed his term of penance, seeks now to participate in the fifth libation, thereby to seal his fate.

Q. What did the Grand Commander then observe?  A. Pilgrim, in granting your request and receiving you a Knight among our number, I can only offer you a rough habit, coarse diet, and severe duties; if, on these conditions, you are still desirous of enlisting under our banners, you will advance and kneel at the base of the triangle.

Q. What did the Grand Commander then observe?  A. Pilgrim, the fifth libation is taken in the most solemn and impressive manner; we cannot be too often reminded that we are born to die; and the fifth libation is an emblem of that bitter cup of death, of which we must all sooner or later partake, and from which even the Saviour of the world, notwithstanding his ardent prayers and solicitations, was not exempt.

Q. What was then said to you?  A. The Grand Commander asked me if I had any repugnance to participate in the fifth libation.

Q. Your answer?  A. I am willing to conform to the requirements of the Order.

Q. What followed?  A. I then took the cup (the upper part of the human skull) in my hand, and repeated after the Grand Commander the following obligation: 

“This pure wine I now take in testimony of my belief in the mortality of the body and the immortality of the soul, and may this libation appear as a witness against me, both here and hereafter, and as the sins of the world were laid upon the head of the Saviour, so may all the sins committed by the person whose scull this was be heaped upon my head, in addition to my own, should I ever knowingly or wilfully violate or transgress any obligation that I have heretofore taken, take at this time, or shall at any future period take, in relation to any degree of Masonry, or Order of Knighthood.  So help me God.”

Q. What was this obligation called?  A. The sealed obligation.

Q. Why so?  A. Because any obligation entered into, or promise made in reference to this obligation, is considered by Knight Templars as more binding and serious than any other special obligation could be.

Q. What followed?  A. The Most Excellent Prelate then read the sixth lesson, relative to the election of Matthias. (See Chart.)

Q. What followed?  A. The Generalissimo thus addressed the Grand Commander:  “Most Eminent, by the extinguished taper on the triangle, I perceive there is a vacancy in our Encampment, which I propose should be filled by a choice from among those valiant Knights who have sustained the trials and performed the ceremonies required by our Order."[18]