for several hundred years the Templars practiced in secret initially under the protection of the Bruce.
The Anglicans/Catholic Lite setup the first "official" guilds in London as sticky traps for intellectuals and to degrade the craft and it also forced the Scottish Rite to the surface.
The majority of what people of today know as "MASONIC" was never anything more than subversion and subterfuge.
The Scottish Rite was the Templar Rite yet who knows how infected it is today.
Controlled opposition, divide and conquer….
The more one knows….