The presiding officer then addresses him:
Brother A. B., in consequence of your cheerful conformity to the charges and regulations of the Order, you are now to be installed Master of this Lodge, in full confidence of your care, skill, and capacity to govern the same.
But previous thereto, it is necessary that you should be solemnly inducted into the Oriental Chair of King Solomon, during the performance of which ceremony it is requested that all but Past Masters will retire.
All but Past Masters having retired, the candidate is invested with the mysteries of that degree, and solemnly inducted into the chair. Whereupon the doors being opened, the brethren in turn, and forming an avenue on each side, from the West to the East the new Master being in the chair, the presiding officer says:
Brethren, behold your Master!
Master, behold your brethren!
A procession is then formed, and the brethren pass around the Lodge, signifying their homage and obedience by the usual distinctive marks in the different degrees of Freemasonry, during which time the Installation Ode is sung.
