You can see how the Masons would have acquired power. They could do stuff that no-one else could - somewhat like the big tech whizzes of today. They could even be sent abroad to work there.

So imagine you are living in medieval times when hardly anyone ventures further than the next village and these people are travelling to foreign lands.

Now think what they are doing. They are building all the famous buildings in the world. They will come across all the movers and shakers who have the wherewithall to finance castles and cathedrals.

Also, if your castle needs some secret rooms, hidey holes, secret passages or dungeons then the Masons will know about them. Knowledge is power.

They were doing all that centuries before Adam Weisshaupt founded the Illuminati so the megalomaniacs had had lots of time to infiltrate the corridors of masonic power and subvert the organisation.

The Catholic Church is similar. Once a hierarchy is seen as a powerbase then it starts to attract the "wrong sort" of people. People who want power above all else.

You can see how the Masons would have acquired power. They could do stuff that no-one else could - somewhat like the big tech whizzes of today. They could even be sent abroad to work there.

So imagine you are living in medieval times when hardly anyone ventures further than the next village and these people are travelling to foreign lands.

Now think what they are doing. They are building all the famous buildings in the world. They will come across all the movers and shakers who have the wherewithall to finance castles and cathedrals.

Also, if your castle needs some secret rooms, hidey holes, secret passages or dungeons then the Masons will know about them. Knowledge is power.