Besides, you’re only a 32nd degree Mason. There used to be a very agreeable and friendly panhandler at my local Metro stop — a very clubable guy like most Masons I’ve met — who got carried away talking about the 33 1/3 degree Masons. I don’t think you’re even supposed to know about the 33 1/3 degree until you’re initiated into the 33rd degree, which would mean that you’re still on the outside and in the dark. And there could in theory be inner circles of degrees and mysteries beyond that. Ridiculous, you will say. But how would any of us know? It’s all a secret. I’m just needling you here, but you get the drift. The insistence on open doctrine is an important principle.