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Charles M. Setzer Lodge # 693 is a subordinate Lodge of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons in North Carolina
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Our Lodge is considered by many to be one of the most proficient and friendliest in the state; why not come for a visit and get to know us? Follow this link to contact our Lodge.
Voices form the past....
Masonry, successor of the Mysteries, still follows the ancient manner of
teaching. Her ceremonies are like the ancient mystic shows, not the
reading of an essay, but the opening of a problem, requiring research,
and constituting philosophy the arch-expounder. Her symbols are the
instruction she gives. The lectures are endeavors, often partial and
one-sided, to interpret these symbols. He who would become an
accomplished Mason must not be content merely to hear, or even to
understand, the lectures; he must, aided by them, and they having, as it
were, marked out the way for him, study, interpret, and develop these
symbols for himself.
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogmas.