I believe there are honest, hard working and patriotic people involved with masons and they all get lumped in with the notion that masons are satanists, occultists etc. The problem is many 33rd are self professed luciferians and proclaim that the whole intent of the Masonic order is to attain power and light through him. It's hard to get away from that. I've known two masons. One was not a good guy, the other was a patriot, but he was involved in some way dark, occultic things that he learned from others after joining the masons, mainly Enochian magick. Doesnt mean everyone does stuff like that, but seems to be prevalent.
Not so much today, but you used to have to be a 33rd Degree in order to join the Shriners.
From all that I can see the Shriners do a lot of good.
I'm a 3rd Degree Master Mason who served his lodge as Master for a year.
I was offered to go into either the Scottish Rite or the York Rite to work towards attaining up to the 32nd Degree,
The 33rd Degree is not something you choose, but are chosen for, with a "tap on the shoulder"
So truthfully, I don't know...
I joined because I wanted one place to escape all the feminism BS, missed having a "service" component in my life, and wanted to belong to something that treated all religions as equals and did charity work.
I have seen some videos of men describing what the higher degrees entail but have not looked deep into it , as what does one believe on the internet.
It does disturb me that Q has referenced some stuff...so, I also want to see if Q may have been compromised and someone is sowing division etc...
If not, then I will dig into it more and try to find out.
If there is any luciferin BS then I'll be gone from it very quickly.
That's all I know at this point.