Re: X men - 5 Dollar Ft. long Subs-cryptionite
About masons:
My father, who is a stonemason (Euro heritage), said the Masons were a secret society because many had been killed designing, building or learning secret passageways etc in aristocratic castles, churches. (When I heard this I thought about the Taj Mahal in India; its architect was killed, to ensure there would not be another structure like it.) It was also a way to share information about which aristocrats paid their bills, because many of the projects took more than one lifetime to complete, so it was protection for the mason's heirs, apprentices, progeny, co-workers. The Masons also shared knowledge about design, construction, materials, like an underground artisan or trades (maybe even political) network, beginning somewhere in the Gothic period (12th-16th centuries).
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