The next step in the initiation ceremony was the lecture given by the master of ceremonies, called "Mabalasig/Mabalasik" (terrible brother), who informed the neophyte to withdraw if he lacked courage since he would be out of place in the patriotic society. If the neophyte persisted, he was presented to the assembly of the brethren, who subjected him to various ordeals such as blindfolding him and making him shoot a supposedly a revolver at a person, or forcing him to jump over a supposedly hot flame. After the ordeals came to final rite–the "pacto de sangre" or blood compact–in which the neophyte signed the following oath with the blood taken from his arm: