The whole intent of secret societies is for the friendless autistics to find a condition of automatic 'friends' but in the end it's all just adult cosplay with fellow low level narcissists who in fact gather only look for exploitable weaknesses among their own group.
Ritual is nothing more than making the easily available seem special and difficult in order to feel a special sense of accomplishment in doing the simple in some difficult way.
That way you can avoid doing the really difficult stuff.
If that's what you need, that's how you do it.
It's all about pretending the obvious is occult for the low achievement crowd.
In the end the best that can be expected is a sense of superiority where none can be demonstrated, hence it's kept secret lest someone bring up that the occult emperor has no clothes and no objective purpose for that matter.