There is a secret Lodge society that you have never heard of, the Marzea, that is attested as far back as 4,000 years in Ugaritic texts, that is refered to in the Bible, that involved a council of 13 performing Necromantic ritual, that literally drank themselves into the Underworld.
There is a chair involved, a throne, upon that throne sit the ancestors that ruled through the Marzeah supposedly all the way back to the Gods that now dwell in the underworld, so many share that throne and through the rites they are all connected, but only one is living.
The Freemasons learnt of the secret lodge system from the Jews and adapted a support system variation of such.
http:// www.academia.edu/10378623/Dine_with_the_Dead_A_Study_of_the_Concept_of_Marzeah_Houses