I had to dig to find this again... Nostr's been active today.
I think the masons started as an intel agency for England or the UK or Britain or whatever the F they want us to call them. I don't think they are anymore, and that's an improvement.
IMO they should distance themselves as much as possible from previous intelligence operations. That's not them anymore, or need not be. There's value in what they do, which seems to be mainly charity and maintaining a dogma free zone. You can find speeches on YouTube that apparently happen regularly in lodges.
I don't think they're satanic in the slightest. They want more than what church offers, and the Catholic church has decided that's not allowed. The same church says anything that's not in their current dogma is satanic. They say gnostics and hermeticists and alchemists are satanic, and that's just wrong. Its literally the opposite of truth.
Some people just can't deal with nuance or symbolism, and prefer an authority to tell them what's what. That's unfortunately most Christians, and it shouldn't be, but it is what it is. Most masons are Christians. They won't even let you join unless you believe in God.
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Well, there's no mention of God or Christ in freemasonry. They refer to an Architect of the Universe or variations of it as their supreme being. I didn't say they're satanic, for sure not the entry levels anyway. They're useful idiots most of them giving legitimacy to a more darker top tiers who know how to use their egregor and more.
The French branch not recognized by UGLE accepts both women and atheist ls because they take an oath on a blank book instead of Bible or Coran and so on. Most accept only men tho. Ironically, the French are trying to front-run everyone.
As for origins, well, that's a very long story. Cain sounds familiar?
Oh someone did... Huh. Must've got mixed up.
I haven't heard they go back to Cain. I thought it stopped at Noah. There's some legend about Noah's corpse and something they forgot and waiting for the corpse to tell them what they forgot. I forgot how it goes! Ironic. Probably conflating two things, too.
I think the point about calling God the "architect of the universe" is that anyone from any religion can agree that the universe is perfectly designed. But, we're more of a work in progress, like little architects building little temples, in a fairly obvious allusion to Jesus' statement that he'll rebuild this temple in three days - that being himself.
