I know free masons. It is a boys club and a place where men make business connections with other members of the club.
They were involved in organized crime about 150 years ago in Scotland but the rest of the places and times it is just a spooky boys’ club.
Symbolism does not interest or excite me so I have no interest in joining it and I don’t get a thrill out of being “spooky and mysterious”.
Some people do and for them, that’s great. They seem to enjoy it.
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