Carbonari etc. which spawned, like the Order of the Temple and Christianity, thousands of spurious and mediocre organizations purporting to be keepers of one secret or another. The masonic order apparition stands out in a singular way, since despite the timely creation of a central lodge that brought in the Scottish unrelated origins, it became an instrument of one country or another under different authorities with or without political aspirations and never with religious ones. The rituals adopted by each and every one varies within a core collection created by Scottish and British speculative masonry. Some, like the Scottish rite, unite lodges throughout the world in this respect but have no bearing on the foundations of those lodges and their local commitments. The hard fact is that there is no such thing as an international Freemasonic movement.
Despite certain misgivings about the nature and abuse by some members of this somewhat curious and dangerously secretive organization, it has to be acknowledged that the style and presentation of its initiation levels is inspiring. They are, morever, also close to those originally organized by Orders like that of the Templars (who based their teachings on the visual and dramatic interpretations of the ancient mystery schools) and the Hashishim who also geared similar but more lethal displays to produce a psychological effect on which further, mind altering, training would be based. Discussions with former high executives of the Freemasons, who joined the modern Order of the Temple in an attempt to learn more about the nature of the secrets, confessed that they had gone in enthusiastically and left rather disappointed about what they called a non event. Taking everything into account, it seems