The masons were originally the one group on earth that held the sacred knowledge that allowed them to build civilizations, societies for the good of humanity. But they were infiltrated early on and the knowledge is now turned upside down, misused, corrupted. All their symbols have divine meaning speaking to the spirit within every one of us, but all of them have, from the corruption, changed meaning into what the corruptors want, they can't have the sheep subconscious being triggered towards truth, so they associate the symbols with their own wicked shit.