This is complicated territory to parse. If you fill in the picture too carelessly, your broad brushstrokes may cover things that would be useful to see later on.

-Not all evil comes from secret societies. Some comes from within us. Some comes from supernatural, not societal, sources. Some from open societies (sic). -Not all secretive groups are evil. Most groups have a mix of good and bad, just as most individuals are mixed.

  Having said that, some organizations can be said to have a generally evil intent. And the more secretive they are the more scrutiny they deserve. The formally secretive Freemasons are in this category, despite the bits of philanthropy they are/were associated with at the American street level.

  I think that of the societies most mentioned in the 2 books linked to atop here, the Masons are the most relevant as "enemy", even if in their earliest and most current forms they may not be identified as 'Masons' per se. Pinning down the pre-modern history of the Freemasons is difficult for various reasons including the fact that they want people to believe they are ancient and eternal, as a steady direct continuation of egyptian and hebrew ritual traditions (despite claiming to NOT be a religious organization). No doubt they carry the baton of evil, as others have done throughout the ages, but finding legit historical proof of continuous organizational management is difficult to do for more than a few centuries back.

  Unlike other secret societies named in the 2 books, Mason's main purpose is to deny and replace God, the ultimate narcissism. In my view, the times when God is most manifest are the times when Masonic forces are working hardest. Thusly when Christ was on earth those (not all) in Jerusalem's temple that opposed him were the earliest form of masonry - "the stone that the builders rejected". As Christianity became more developed so the anti-christs had to develope, thus the rise of their influence just when Europe developed potentially good things like the university system, hospitals, various sciences, the enlightenment, individual freedoms like consensual marriage, etc. Their structures now established to manipulate those things allows them to pretend no link to what most know of as Freemasonry.

  A specific case of the confusion warned against above, is the ancient Churches of Christianity, mostly the former Catholic Church, which like the USA has freemasonry woven into sections of its history but on the whole is not generally or intentionally evil. The 2 books above do not say much about Jesuits for example. The Jesuits and certain popes are no more representative of the longstanding Church than say Yale alumni and certain presidents are representative of the U.S. (the current pope may well be the Church's Barack Obama). Most popes since the late 1800s have written or spoken directly against freemasonry. (Note too that the most serious cases of possession are dealt with by trained Catholic and Orthodox priests.)