You are right, freemasonry was only about knowledge, secret societies started as secret because the church punishments (see Galileo), then (((they))) infiltrated them and used the knowledge gathered to keep their fuckery, and also kept the secrecy.
All the knowledge and symbols that the cabal uses are mostly only that, knowledge and symbols, most of them don't even belong to them, but they stole them from ancient cultures, what is most important about them is how you use them, specially the intention you put to them.
The fight against the cabal is mostly a fight against the institutions, (((they))) corrupted them all. No religion is safe, no political ideology, nothing, we have to trust ourselves for this, without an idol, without waiting for someone to "save us", but to save ourselves by our own means (as Jesus teached, He came to offer enlightenment in his teachings, not that He would come back to save us from ourselves).
We'll just have to wait until more people realizes this, and find their own strength and divinity, but we'll have to wait, this board is painfully "Christian" and keep waiting for Jesus to come and save them repeating Bible verses over and over, but get little about the message of the Christ, and refuse to expand their knowledge and consciousness beyond their fear.