To say that many wonderful people such as George Washington and W.A. Mozart have been freemasons does not prove that freemasonry is wonderful. The rituals of the high degrees of freemasonry are not Christian. They’re pagan.
I’ve heard, in person, many exorcists speak about this topic. These are not foaming-at-the-mouth anti-masonic bigots. They’re describing a very real phenomenon. They’ll tell you that freemasonry, as well as many other things in like ouija boards, witchcraft, voodoo, sorcery. occult practices, etc has been pathways to the demoinc
It seems to me that I read that George Washington’s daughter did not approve of his portrait with a Masonic apron, which was done after his death. She said he attended a couple of times but never joined and would not want to be portrayed as a Mason.