All of the masonic organizations are at the local levels, at the worst, good ol' boys networking opportunities, that do have some positive causes. BUT, they are fronts for the evil folks working against us (so that the organizations have a measure of plausible deniability) and the base has no clue what the closed off, invite-only upper echelons are doing. Basically the common mason guilds were coopted hundreds of years ago.
I get so frustrated when we blame this country and that country because these people have no allegiance to any country OR religion, and probably wouldn't acknowledge a local lodge member.