The Perfect Mason

Q. How many points of fellowship attouchemens touches/grips do you have as a Master Mason?
A. Five.
Q. What are the five points of fellowship?
A. Foot against foot, knee against knee, breast against breast, face against face, and the left hand behind the back.
Q. Explain these five points of fellowship to us. What does the first, foot against foot, signify?
A. That we must always be ready to walk to the aid of our brothers.
Q. What does the second, knee against knee, signify?
A. That we are always ready to pray and to intercede? for our brothers.
Q. What does the third, breast against breast, signify?
A. The liveliness, the tenderness, and the firmness of our friendship.
Q. What does the fourth, face against face, signify?
A. Our indissoluble union.
Q. What does the fifth, the left hand behind the back, signify?
A. That there is no type of service we should not be ready to render to all our brothers, and to each one in particular. This is called the five points of fellowship.
Q. What is the word of the Perfect Master?
A. Jehova Jehovah, which is the name of God in Hebrew.
Q. Why is this name consecrated to our Very Sublime Grade?
A. Because God is the source of all Light and the principle of all perfection.

Q. What is the place where we are assembled called?
A. Sanctuary.
Q. Why is it called a sanctuary?
A. It is out of respect for the Very Venerable grade of mastership that is discussed there, and for the Very Excellent brothers who are admitted to our sublime Grade.
Q. Why have we taken the name of Perfect Master?
A. Because we have no other goal in our assemblies than to perfect Masonry and to deepen the morality it contains.
Q. Very Sublime Exercising Officer, we are extremely obliged to you for your kindness. It would be abusing it to ask you for anything more. Deign only to teach us the necessary qualities to be admitted to the sublime Grade of Perfect Master.
A. My brother, there are five main ones: 1st, one must be a member of a Regular Lodge; 2nd, be known as a good and true Mason; 3rd, be perfectly instructed in the art of Masonry; 4th, have attended our assemblies with decency and Regularity; 5th, finally, have a pure and sincere desire to be admitted to this Grade.

The obligatory toasts are six in number. They are never repeated, but each officer, after having called for silence, asks the Exercising Officer or the Deputy for permission to speak to announce the toast as follows.