Have I ever been to a Masonic lodge meeting? No, and I never intend to. The 33rd degree who wanted me to join (one day when I was working the paddy wagon with him) took me inside the Masonic hall in our city (which is now shut down and used as a boxing gym) the place gave me the creeps. He took me in the main room which had what looked like a throne at one one end and what looked like a globe in the center and benches against one wall.
Place made me very uneasy. I don't even like to go in there now that it is a gym.