Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

to the candidate:
I cannot, brother Gabe (or as the case may be),
take it back:
p. 169
were I to do so, I would violate my oath as a
Mark Master, and so would you.
Here the Right Worshipful Master calls the
candidate's attention to that part of the obligation.
The Right Worshipful Master now requests one
of the brethren present to let the newly made
brother Mark Master have the price of the Mark
(usually twenty-five cents). Some brother here
hands the candidate that sum, and he in turn
hands it, together with the Mark, to the Right
Worshipful Master. The Right Worshipful Master
then administers the caution to candidate,
beginning as follows:--
Brother, let this scene, &c. (See line 16, page
168.)
The Right Worshipful Master now takes the
candidate by the hand, and says:
Arise, brother, and I will invest you with the
pass-grip and word, and also the real grip and
word of a Mark Master Mason.
The pass-grip of this Degree is made by
extending the right arms and clasping the fingers
of the right hands, as one would naturally do to
assist another up a steep ascent. It is said to have
originated from the fact that the banks of the river
at