Q. Of what use is this new name to you in Masonry?  A. It was the original mark of our worthy Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, and is the general mark of this degree, and the letters form the circle, in the centre of which every brother of this degree places his particular mark, to which his obligation alludes.

Q. What followed?  A. I was more fully instructed with the secrets of this degree.

Q. Of what do they consist?  A. Of signs and tokens.

Q. Have you a sign?  A. I have.

Q. What is it called?  A. Heave over.

Q. What does it allude to?  A. To the manner of heaving over work that the Overseers said was unfit for the Temple; also the manner the keystone was hove over.

Q. Have you any other sign?  A. I have (at the same time giving it).

Q. What is that?  A. The due-guard of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What does it allude to?  A. To the penalty of my obligation; which is, that my right ear should be smote off, that I might forever be unable to hear the word, and my right hand be chopped off, as the penalty of an impostor, if I should ever prove wilfully guilty of revealing any part of my obligation.

Q. Have you any further sign?  A. I have.

Q. What is that?  A. The grand sign, or sign of distress.

Q. What does it allude to?  A. To the manner the Fellow Crafts carry their work up to the Temple for inspection; also the manner I was taught to carry my work, on my advancement to this degree.

Q. Have you any other sign?  A. I have not; but I have a token (gives it to him).

Q. What is this?  A. The pass-grip of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What is the name of it?  A.  “Joppa.”

Q. What does it allude to?  A. The city of Joppa.

Q. Have you any other token?  A. I have.

Q. What is this?  A. The real grip of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What is the name of it?  A. Mark well.

Q. What does it allude to?  A. To a passage of Scripture, where it says, “Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looketh towards the East, and it was shut; and the Lord said unto me, son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and the laws thereof, and mark well the entering in of the house, with the going forth of the sanctuary.”

Q. Who founded this degree?  A. Our three ancient Grand Masters, viz.: 
Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff.

Q. Why was it founded?  A. Not only as an honorary reward, to be conferred on all who have proved themselves meritorious in the preceding degrees, but to render it impossible for a brother to suffer for the immediate necessities of life, when the price of his mark will procure them.

Q. A brother pledging his mark and asking a favor, who does he represent?  A. Our worthy Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, who was a poor man, but on account of his great skill and mysterious conduct at the building of King Solomon’s Temple, was most eminently distinguished.