Q. What followed?  A. The Most Perfect presented me with the bread and wine, and rising, said, “Eat of this bread,” etc.  When this part of the ceremony was ended the brethren made a libation according to ancient usage.

Q. What followed?  A. The Most Perfect raised me and said, “That which I shall now communicate to you, will make you accomplished in Masonry.”  He then gave me three signs, three tokens, the three pass-words, and the three grand words of this degree.

Q. Give me the signs? [First sign made like Master Mason’s, with hands clenched.]

Q. To what does this sign allude?  A. To the penalty of the obligation. [Second sign:  bring your right hand upright, the palm outwards to guard your left cheek, your left hand supporting your elbow, then guard your right cheek with left hand, etc.]

Q. To what does that sign allude?  A. To the manner in which Moses guarded his eyes from the light of the burning bush, from which the Almighty revealed to him his true name. [Third sign is that of surprise:  raise both hands as high as the shoulders, and step back with the right foot.]

Q. To what does this sign allude?  A. To the attitude of Solomon and Hiram, when the sacred treasure was first produced.

Q. Give me the first token? [First token same as Intimate Secretary, giving the words Berith, Neder, Shelemoth]

Q. What do those signify?  A. Alliance, Promise and Protection.

Q. To what do they allude?  A. To the alliance of Moses and Aaron, of Solomon and Hiram, King of Tyre.  The promise made by the Almighty to the ancient patriarchs that the true pronunciation of his name should be revealed to their posterity, and the perfection attained when this promise was fulfilled.

Q. Give me the second token? [Pass from Master’s grip, and seize his right arm above the elbow, and place your left hand on his right shoulder.]

Q. Give me the third token? [With your left hand seize your brother’s right elbow, and with your right hand, his right shoulder.]

Q. Give me the three pass-words?  A. First, Master Mason’s; second, Elhanon; third, Fellow Craft’s, repeated thrice.

Q. Give me the three grand words?  A. First, Gibulum; second, Eh-yeh-asher-eh-yeh.

Q. What does that word signify?  A. I am what I am.  Third, El-hod-dihu kaw-lu.

Q. What does that word signify?  A. God be praised, we have finished it.

Q. What followed?  A. The Most Perfect caused me to pronounce the mysterious word of this degree.

Q. Pronounce it?  A. I cannot but once in my life.

Q. How will you then give it?  A. * * * * [A Hebrew pronunciation of
God.]