Scottish Rite ..not good.
It’s always hard for family members to accept because how they recruits is often masked behind ‘great business and community’ connections. But there’s a very dark side of masonary you won’t recognize until you reach the 32nd degree.
All other members support the top membership.
Took our family member a long time to clear of it all....and most members know full well it’s darkness when they go through the rites.....they just don’t put much weight into the oath they give nor their surroundings. But they all say how dark and creepy it is.
I remember having an intuition when I ws a little girl that my grandfather - a “pillar of the community, extremely successful business man”, had secrets.
I have always been very sensitive to reading others. I didn’t know what these secrets were, but they seemed “dark” to me.
My mother was shocked and angry that I could even think such a thing. I was punished.
I find this sensitivity very uncomfortable, and tend to avoid certain people who set it off.
Interesting. My dad was very active up until he reached that level, then it slammed to a halt.
He was always very vague about why he drifted away from it. He felt enlisted men were not treated as well as officers, was what he told me, but I could tell there was more. I never pushed it. He was a perceptive and decisive man, and I figured whatever reasons he had, were sufficient for him.