Q. What was then said to you. A. I was asked, "Who comes there?"
Q. Your answer? A. A chief of the five orders of architecture, who is to be employed in the works of the secret chamber.
Q. What was then said to you? A. I was then asked by what further right, etc.
Q. Your answer? A. By the right of a pass-word.
Q. Give me that pass-word? A. Bonahim (pronounced Bo-nau-heem).
Q. What was then said to you? A. Wait until the Most Puissant is informed, etc.
Q. What was his answer? A. Let him be introduced in due form.
Q. What followed? A. I was conducted to the altar and caused to recede five steps, and then to advance to the altar by five steps of regular exactness.
Q. What is meant thereby? A. That I should recede from vice, and advance to virtue, before I was qualified to supply the place of so good a man as the lamented Hiram Abiff.
Q. What followed? A. I was laid prostrate before the altar, with a sprig of cassia in my right hand, and my left upon the first great light of Masonry, in which posture I took the obligation of this degree.