By Bro Love, Tyrawley Lodge No 217 (Ballina, Mayo) Grand Lodge of Ireland   Introduction   About 8 years ago, I took my first stone carving lessons and have been carving stone as a hobby ever since. This operative interest in stone carving has carried over into the Lodge and I find I am always…

Get A Life! “Get a life!” It’s a phrase you hear a lot these days. Usually it’s directed at someone who is spending time worrying about the trivial or too much concerned with the insignificant.   Get A Life! It’s probably good advice, but it isn’t easy. Getting a life — a life which gives…

Symbols Transactions of the Research Lodge of New South Wales – L.M. Sherwood   Symbols and Symbolism are fundamental to an Order.   The United Grand Lodge of England in its 1929 public statement of Basic Principles refers to the Craft Degrees as the Symbolic Degrees.   Albert Pike, a distinguished American Mason of the…