What does the mark master mason degree teach us

The degree holds forth an encouraging lesson to those who feel desponding: though human motives may be misinterpreted, attainments underrated, and reputations traduced by the envious or malicious, there is one who sees not as man sees, and who may yet make the stone which the builders rejected the head of the corner 1.

In its connection with the Fellow Craft degree, it complements the moral duties of life. While the Second Degree inculcates the necessary exercise of those duties, the Mark Master degree teaches the importance of performing them with systematic regularity 1. The true Mark Master is presented as a type of the faithful servant in the sacred parable who, having been faithful over a few things, is made ruler over many 1.