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."