In the Year of Our Lord 2007 A.D./6007 A.L. Quarry Degree Photos Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge Number 576 meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays, Meal at 6:15 PM, Lodge opens at 7:00 PM    Grand Lodge of North Carolina Mission Statement: The mission of Freemasonry in North Carolina is to raise the moral, social, intellectual, and spiritual conscience of society by teaching the ancient and enduring philosophical tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, which are expressed outwardly through service to God, family, country, and self under the Fatherhood of God within the Brotherhood of Man.    The Brotherhood of Freemasonry:  Freemasonry is a Brotherhood of Men under the Fatherhood of God, charged with the mission of identifying good men and giving them the opportunities and resources to become better men.  One of Masonry's founding and guiding principles is relief. To give of one's self to help another is one of life's highest attainments. Relief comes in many forms, it could simply be helping a brother in need, or coming to the aid of a widow or an orphan.    "Freemasonry, a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols. The most ancient society in the world; its principles are based on pure morality, its ethics are the ethics of pure religion; its doctrines, the doctrines of brotherly love; and its sentiments, the sentiments of exalted benevolence. It encourages all that is good, kind, and charitable; and reproves all that is vicious, cruel, and oppressive." - North Carolina Lodge  Manual  (Bahnson)     Legend tells us that in the bleak days of Valley Forge when our esteemed Brother George Washington was without funds to pay his ill-fed, scantly clothed and poorly--equipped Army--an Army which was without shoes and which actually left bloody footprints on the ice and snow--at a time when desertion was rampant and morale was at a low ebb, He issued the order: "Only Master Mason's will stand guard tonight." Website Manager Bob J.Mazzoni