I don't know much about freemasonry, but I know a few masons. Old and young. None have told me much about what goes on, and the masons I know would be offended by such things. I grew up LDS and have noticed alot of similarities there too. From the aprons to symbols and handshakes, and some pretty odd ceremonies that take place inside the temples. And that untill 1984 the Utah Grand Lodge banned LDS members from joining and becoming freemasons.

On that same note I thought it was interesting that this grand orient can admit they aren't masons,
and have no association with masons, then use the same symbol, call themselves the same thing. And even claiming to have the same famous members as the american freemasonry that they admit they are not apart of.
My gut tells me there is something to all of it
but I can't quite identify what it is.

Seems bizarre to me.
So to see a strange dancing lady trying to be erotic
in a weird way that tells me the guy whispering to the one on the right is saying "I wonder who she is sleeping with" infront of a masonic looking set up.
and have other masons saying that would never take place inside a lodge. I don't immediately think Illuminati.
too many examples of known organizations that aren't masons but appear to be nearly identical from the outside.

I think the Scribd document from the 1940 House of Representatives begins to explain some of it.
Stuff I wouldn't even believe they would be discussing in 1940s congress. Stuff I wouldn't believe period if everything mentioned there still exists today, from the Grand Orient Masons and British Israel that I never heard of outside of that document.
Cecil Rhodes, Andrew Carnegie, Lord Rothschild, I know of.
And this document connects them all like some Dan Brown novel.
Except its a congressional document from 72 years ago.