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Membership Center
Learn more about Masonry
Welcome to the Grand Lodge of Texas Membership Center
Here you will find answers to some of the most common questions people have of Masonry. The answers are by Texas Masons, both young and along in years, newly made and some in their 50th year of membership. Their answers will be different from one another illustrating that each man's journey in Masonry is special and unique unto him. Although our journeys may be singular and we may have come to the Fraternity separated by economic strata or profession and distinguished by age or rank, we are Equals in Masonry and bound to each other by the unifying concept of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man and that as Masons, he is my Brother...and I am his.
This section is always growing. Masons are encouraged to post their own answers to the below questions. Non-Masons are urged to send in questions by using the "Ask A Mason" form on our website.
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What do you enjoy most about Masonry?
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Submitted by rb_daniel on Sat, 2010-12-18 22:43
It is with a sadden heart and my deepest regret to inform you that our Charter Master of Allen Lodge #1435, Warren D. Harden, has passed upward and into that celestial Lodge above. Illustrious Brother Harden served his family, his community and our Lodge with distinction and honor. Warren was loved by all. We will miss him and while we mourn his passing we will celebrate his life. Arrangements are being made at Turrentine-Jackson and visitation/grave site services information will be forthcoming.
Submitted by THOMAS LYLES on Tue, 2010-10-12 01:24
Hello this story is about traveling brethen. My work took me to waterville maine where I met bro mike tribel at the Sappi paper mill. Mike came to me we started talking found each other to be brothers.After we talked without my knowing he phoned the grand master .Told him of our talk and Grand Master M. W. Robert R. Landry came to the job site . Where we had a cup of coffee and brotherly words of wisdom.
YOURS TRULY
THOMAS LYLES
P.S. Thank all the brothers from Euclid #194 Maine
Submitted by mcolt1911 on Thu, 2009-12-31 10:41
It took many years of my life to come to two very important conclusions. First to conclude who I was as a person, and what the world truly is (not just the way I want it to be.) Upon coming to these two conclusion I immediately knew that I need to be associated with "like minded" men.
Submitted by blake on Mon, 2009-12-14 01:14
A young man passed a pawnbroker’s shop. The moneylender was standing in front of his shop, and the young man noted that he was wearing a large and beautiful Masonic emblem. After going on a whole block, apparently lost in thought, the young man turned back, stepped up to the pawnbroker, and addressed him:
Submitted by blake on Mon, 2009-12-14 01:06
In the Farmer’s Almanac of 1823 the following was printed under the heading, “Definition of a Freemason”.
The real Freemason is distinguished from the rest of Mankind by the uniform unrestrained rectitude of his conduct. Other men are honest in fear of punishment which the law might inflict, they are religious in expectation of being rewarded, or in dread of the devil in the next world.
Submitted by blake on Mon, 2009-12-14 01:01
Submitted by NLCurry on Sun, 2009-11-29 21:43
By far, the thing I enjoy most is the fellowship of my brethren, and the knowledge that they are men who can be trusted and relied upon.
I enjoy knowing that I can go to any community anywhere in the world and even if I have never been to that community before, I will already have friends there: brother Masons.
Submitted by NLCurry on Sun, 2009-11-29 21:23
I sought to become a Mason after, as a young adult, I discovered that there was a common element shared by a great many of the men whom I came to respect the most. Some were professional colleagues and some were friends on a personal level. These men came from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and had varying educational, religious, and political views. However, they all shared one thing in common.
Submitted by constbpct2 on Sat, 2009-11-28 15:25
I am Ray Forrester, I began my masonic journey on 11/15/1975 in a small up-stairs lodge in Lovelady TX. ( Lovelady Lodge 539). (My great grand father, grand father and dad as well as five Forrester Uncles and Great Uncles were masons.) It was a very cold night, 18 degrees outside and 8 degrees inside. Never the less, sweat was running off me in sheets. After being raised, I was quickly installed as JW of that lodge. Shortly there after, I was promoted in my Job and relocated to Rosharon TX. I took a plural membership with Alvin Lodge 762.
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