 This influence has flourished into modern-day Freemasonry and the hidden rites of the upper degrees. You don't find out anything about it until you're 33rd degree. Up to that point, the men there in the organization believe it's just, you know, helping make good men better, and it's a nice social club, and they help each other in business and so forth. But once you hit 33rd degree, then the gates are opened unto you.