oh, freemammon, please...the masons got their start when the templar order had to go underground from the catholic church that used them as hired goon muscle for tax collection and crusade plundering...they only took their orders from the pope and not from any secular kings

the ones that managed to excape france after the arrest in 1307 had taken all of their treasury on their fleet of crusader ships, and turned to pirating on the high seas, which is where their crusader battle standard, the skull and bones which meant no quarter asked for or given, became notorious as a templirate logo...and they also founded modern banking in switzerland using their treasury

the original templars were sent during the crusades to dig up the temple mount of king solomon for any literature and ritual objects pertaining to his practice of dark djinn magic

and now they own everything worth owning, either themselves or through royal proxies like queen eeliztardbreath who owns a goodly portion of the world's arable land and mineral resources

and every religious and political institution in western society