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I can't really provide much insight, but I was once contracted by a local Masonic lodge to install new windows. I had unsupervised access to pretty much any room that had a window in it, and I was even permitted to look around in the windowless chamber where they performed many of their rituals. They were actually pretty excited to show me around. I can't imagine that they would allow a perfect stranger into their secret lair if they really had anything to hide. But, ya know, take what I say with a pinch of salt as it's just one anecdote about one lodge in Nowhere, Ohio.
That's their strategy, let some laymen in to look around, show them some fake 'secret' rims to show they aren't really that special, while the clevery hidden real secret doors are quietly moved as you leave and enter each room. You end up being just one boring anecdote on the Internet, but over centuries it adds up to hundreds of 'eh' accounts to hide the real story.... It's brilliant!
Meh. I lived in an old Mosanic Temple in my 20s. They had moved the lodge to another part of the city and kept this place there. They have lofts upstairs and I rented one.
It was cool in an old type of way. But there weren't any hidden places we found in the 3 years we lived there.
It’s a somewhat secret organization even if they no longer take it too secretly, and it used to be made up of people who got things done. People who could take control of things if they acted in concert. It’s easy to imagine a secret organization within the secret organization that really dies trying to to manipulate the larger population
Yeah, I know at least one Mason I don't think there's anything interesting going on there. I can definitely see why people think there is.