Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

R. W. M.--Hiram.
Candidate--Tyrian.
R. W. M.--Widow's.
Candidate--Son.
R. W. M.--Sendeth.
Candidate--To.
R. W. M.--King.
Candidate--Solomon.
R. W. M. (pointing to the centre within the circle of these letters.)--Within this circle of
letters every Mark Master Mason must place his own private mark, which may be any
device he may choose to select; and when you have selected your mark, and it is once
regularly recorded in the Book of Marks of this or any other Lodge of which you may be
chosen a member, you have no more right to change it than you have to change your own
name.
Marks are not generally recorded; this duty is very much neglected--it should be done,
and strictly enforced in every Lodge.
Master reads to candidate: "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear."--Rev. iii. 13.
The Master further instructs the candidate in the signs of the penalties of this Degree (see
Figs. 19, 20, 21, and 22), and then presents, or points out to him on the chart, the
working-tools of a Mark Master Mason, viz.: a mallet and chisel, the use of which he
explains as follows:--
The chisel morally demonstrates the advantages of discipline and education. The mind,
like the diamond in its original state,
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is rude and unpolished, but as the effect of the chisel on the external coat soon presents to
view the latent beauties of the diamond, so education discovers the latent beauties of the
mind, and draws them forth to range the large field of matter and space, to display the
summit of human knowledge, our duty to