So it's my understanding that the experience of becoming a member of Masonic

Lodge is divided into three ceremonial stages known as degrees.

So these three degrees are loosely based on the journeyman system from

medieval Europe in which they use to educate craftsmen.

So at each educational stage, a craftsman was required to achieve proficiency

before moving on to the next stage.

So it's like, it's like, you know, it's like a hierarchy, basically.

So most people are also not so wild about the free masonry as a concept

because a suspicious number of prominent historical figures were free masons.

For example, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill,

Mozart, Davey Crockett, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Gerald Ford, Henry Ford,

John Wayne, and even Colonel Sanders.

Wait, at least three of those were Hanabar Barbarra characters.

Don't try to fucking.

I mean, I can understand why people are weirded out by that.

But it's like, I feel like if you did the same thing with like, how many, like, you know,

members of Congress were like Eagle Scouts or something with all sort of kind of

be suspicious.

No, I mean, Andrew Jackson was at the time an open free mason.

Oh, he was.

Yes, he was absolutely.

It opened so people started freaking out because the fucking president was talking

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