The retort to that you will no doubt be familiar with is that you have to be at the Albert Pike, Alesteir Crowley levels of connectedness. Certainly a master or whatever the nomenclature is. Maybe 33rd and above? Every other Mason is therefore oblivious and simply too junior or uninitiated to be allowed to see behind the curtain so they continue to think they are part of a charitable organisation or old boys” business network doing good in the world.
From what I have learned of the world, this type of duplicity, deceit and misdirection is the default, a feature, not a bug, and consistent with what one would expect from a clandestine historical society with dubious origins and proponents.
The retort to that you will no doubt be familiar with is that you have to be at the Albert Pike, Alesteir Crowley levels of connectedness. Certainly a master or whatever the nomenclature is. Maybe 33rd and above? Every other Mason is therefore oblivious and simply too junior or uninitiated to be allowed to see behind the curtain so they continue to think they are part of a charitable organisation or old boys” business network doing good in the world.
From what I have learned of the world, this type of duplicity, deceit and misdirection is the default, a feature, not a bug, and consistent with what one would expect from a clandestine historical society with dubious origins and proponents.