Secrets are for schoolgirls.

reply to post by Trublbrwing


It's a pledge of sincerity, not a literal blood oath. Hardly anybody gets their bowels burnt now days. Honest.

While the triangle (and, for that matter, the number 3) has been used by Masons as a symbol (as well as by other mystery schools and religions going back more than 2500 years), no Masonic organization that I know of actually uses a pyramid in its symbology.

Masonry as we know it really only started about 400 years ago and really only started getting organized around 300 years ago. A lot of people have tried to connect the Masons to the Templars but no actual historical connection has ever been confirmed. In my opinion, the Masons of the enlightenment latched onto the chivalric characteristics of the Knights Templar and played up that aspect for nostalgic purposes. Likewise, in the 1800s when some of the spin-off groups were writing their ritual, there was a resurgence in egyptology, what with various pyramids and artifacts being found. It was all the fashion to model things after egyptian styling. (This bled over into the 1900s as well, and was a clear influence on art deco design, among other things...)

But the Masons don't go all the way back to Pythagoras. The Masons don't go back to ancient Egypt. The Masons don't go back to the Knights Templar (as much as some Masons might want to believe they did.) Yes, 400 years old does make us the oldest continuously running fraternity, and that's pretty damned old relatively speaking, but any implication that we hold secrets that are millennia old are a load of bunk.