**in the upper echelons of Freemasonry, see what they teach after the 19th Degree specifically.
I just read a biography of a man who was invited to make the 33d degree (I think it was) anyway, the highrst degree of the Order. It was quite an eye-opener! I was a Rainbow Girl in my teens (the young ladies equivalent of the Masons---the boys were DeMolay boys) and I can tell you that the rites and rituals were bizarre. We didn't slaughter goats or anything, but actually a lot of what was going on at those meetings went right over my head.
I've looked into the Masons on the web and read some strange stuff----it's not what I'd have expected.
As far as the WTS---I think it's far more dangerous than we thought it was, and not for the obvious reasons Always focusing on gloom and doom despite yakking about their "hope", the demeaning of Christ's role and his resurrection, the "love" that they supposedly promote---but actually feed on hate, for instance. I believe we have yet to fully discover what the WTS is still hiding and I'll bet it ain't pretty.
(sorry, JT, for the first time in recorded history, we find ourselves having different opinions!!!)
I still luv ya!!! (smile)
hugs,
Annie