Alamo Lodge #1491

09/29/2026

09/29/2026

Let's get it in...

09/04/2026

"If You Hate, You Have Lost."

No, Confucius was not a Freemason. He lived nearly 2,000 years before the founding of speculative Freemasonry as we know it today.

Yet one of the beautiful things about our Craft is that it encourages us to seek wisdom wherever it may be found.

Whether it comes from the Bible, Plato, Confucius, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare, or any number of great thinkers throughout history, truth doesn't become less valuable simply because it originated outside the Lodge.

Confucius' words are a powerful reminder:

"If you hate, you have lost."

Hatred rarely harms the person it's aimed at.

It consumes the person carrying it.

It clouds judgment.

It poisons relationships.

It steals peace.

As Freemasons, one of our principal tenets is Brotherly Love. That doesn't mean we agree with everyone. It doesn't mean we excuse wrongdoing or ignore injustice.

It means we refuse to let bitterness govern our hearts.

The strongest Mason isn't the one who wins every argument.

He's the one who can disagree without becoming hateful.

He can correct without humiliating.

He can stand firmly for what is right without surrendering his character in the process.

In a world that profits from outrage and division, that kind of self-mastery is becoming increasingly rare.

The Working Tools teach us to chip away at our own rough edges—not to sharpen them into weapons against one another.

If hatred takes root within us, we've already surrendered the very thing we're trying to protect: our own character.

Perhaps that's why wisdom is timeless.

The names change.

The centuries change.

The languages change.

But the lessons remain.

The goal of Freemasonry isn't simply to collect knowledge.

It's to become the kind of man who can live it.

06/26/2026

Enshrined in Texas History. Ancient Free And Accepted Black Free Masonry /G

04/05/2026

04/05/2026

Great Study Session today