Q. How? A. By the direction of the Master, and assistance of the
brethren.

Q. What did you first discover after being brought to light? A. Three
great lights in Masonry, by the assistance of three lesser.

Q. What were those three great lights in Masonry? A. The Holy Bible,
Square and Compass.

Q. How are they explained? A. The Holy Bible is given to us as a guide
for our faith and practice; the Square, to square our actions; and the
Compass to keep us in due bounds with all mankind, but more especially
with the brethren.

Q. What were those three lesser lights? A. Three burning tapers, or
candles on candlesticks.

Q. What do they represent? A. The Sun, Moon, and Master of the Lodge.

Q. How are they explained? A. As the Sun rules the day, and the Moon
governs the night, so ought the Worshipful Master to use his endeavors
to rule and govern his Lodge with equal regularity, or cause the same
to be done.

Q. What did you next discover? A. The Worshipful Master approaching me
from the East, under the sign and due-guard of an Entered Apprentice
Mason, who presented me with his right hand in token of brotherly love
and esteem, and proceeded to give me the grip and word of an Entered
Apprentice Mason, and bid me arise and salute the Junior and Senior