The Broached Thurnel
- Name
- The Broached Thurnel.pdf
- Speaker
- Wor. H. R. "Ray" Lindquist
- Presented
- Virginia Research Lodge No. 1777
- Date Presented
- 08/17/2013
- Category
- Ritual
- Keywords
- Symbolism
- Spreading
- 161
- Pages
- 5
- Summary
- This paper explains a working tool which is no longer used in the ritual, a Broached Thurnel, and it's symbolic meaning. The tool looks like a pyramid on top of a square, and was used by Entered Apprentices as a type of chisel to roughly hew stones.