I am a Moose...cause I play poker there once a month and figure I should donate...

Near as I can tell it goes like this.

Us Moose's are pretty much like peons...if we get to do any global puppet master Illuminati stuff it's probably like fetch drinks for the Masons...once I asked like the head Moose Dude about being part of the hidden hand and manipulating global events on behalf of the invisible masters and he looked at me like I had a fuckin lobster on my head...and said "Go eat a hotdog, got them good onions this time"....after much surreptitious interrogation of various members with results like "Huh? git the fak outta here, lol" and similar, I am convinced that sadly the Moose's are outside the structure of the secret domination of the globe. The Elks I suspect are mostly outsiders as well, but perhaps higher up the Illuminati food chain...I played poker with some Elks once and they had a nicer lodge, but while I was doing detection counter-ops and generally scoping out the situ they also didn't respond correctly to various key phrases and replied like, "You Moose guys are fucked up"...and "Huh?..go away" So I think they are clean...

So far in essence my sit-rep is basically:

Moose ok, Elks a notch up with money and prestige, also Ok.
The Masons are the real global puppet masters and are ultimately ruled by them guys with the beeny cars.

That's it in a nutshell.