Worshipful Master, in the name of the Most High, I present to you the working tools of an Installed Master. They are the Plan, the Trowel and the Plumb Line.

By a careful study of the Plan, the operative Mason is enabled to carry out the details of the work as conceived and designed by the architect.

With the Trowel he spreads the cement by which the many stones of the building are firmly bound together.

With the Plumb Line he adjusts his work, thereby keeping it regular and perpendicular.

But as we are not all operative Masons, but rather free and accepted or speculative, we apply these tools to our morals.

In like manner Worshipful Master, it will be your duty, by a constant study of the Divine Plan, as given in the VSL, to progress yourself and to assist your brethren to realise the conception of the design of the Great Architect of the Universe; Who intended man to be in His own image and to conform in all things to His Divine Will.

To spread abroad amongst your brethren the cement of Brotherly kindness and zeal, so that the members of the Lodge may be firmly bound together by ties of affectionate esteem.

Likewise, adjusting your own conduct by the Plumb Line of moral rectitude and truth, you will yourself be so just, upright and impartial, that the brethren may confidently look to your example, as a never failing Plumb Line by which they may safely regulate their own conduct to carry out the sublime precepts and noble objects of the Order.

These, Worshipful Master, are the working tools of an Installed Master duly explained.