Not necessarily. According to Albert Pike:
"The symbols of the wise always become the idols of the ignorant multitude. What the Chiefs of the Order really believed and taught, is indicated to the Adepts by the hints contained in the high Degrees of Free-Masonry, and by the symbols which only the Adepts understand. [The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry. The whole body of the Royal and Sacerdotal Art was hidden so carefully, centuries since, in the High Degrees, as that it is even yet impossible to solve many of the enigmas which they contain. It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain, and without any true reward violate his obligations as an Adept. Masonry is the veritable Sphinx, buried to the head in the sands heaped round it by the ages.]Albert Pike was Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction during the Nineteenth century. A larger-than-life statue of him stands outside the DMV in Washington, DC. Pike apparently was saying that most Masons are kept in the dark about the real teachings of the lodge. You may in a position to investigate whether this is true. If it is, you would certainly have firth-hand credibility to warn your children of the truth.
I have a first edition copy of Morals and Dogma signed by Albert Pike sitting on the shelf right next to me as I write this reply - passed down to me by my great-great-grandfather, who was a Grandmaster when the book was first published. I noticed that in your commentary, you used the word "apparently" when referring to what Albert Pike wrote. You can use that word throughout his writings when describing his work. I challenge any two people to read his ponderous musings and come to the same conclusion about what he meant. The work is esoteric, and meant to be so, but it's also so vague and tenuous, that - like the writings of Nostradamus - it can be interpreted in any way a reader wishes to fit preconceived biases and notions. It is for this reason that the book is held up to such fanfare by conspiracy theorists as proof of Freemasonry's evil intentions.
Albert Pike's views of Freemasonry were never accepted by the Northern Jurisdiction, and even the Southern Jurisdiction stopped issuing complimentary copies of Morals and Dogma in 1974.
But it's obvious you are not to be convinced. You are a conspiracy theorist of the highest order. It's a shame that you won't take the time to understand the other - much less breathless - version of the brotherhood. The one even Dan Brown discovered when he wrote The Lost Symbol: That the biggest secret of Freemasonry is...
...that there is no secret.
But that would be too easy, and much less exciting to believe.