Tigs,
I don't speak from ignorance, nor from reading The Brotherhood, but from experience. I am delighted thatyou have never encountered the circumstances which I have.
I am still unclear why you need a secret society? (And, please, not the cliche, 'society with secrets', that is a semantic play on words and is not wholly accurate).
Anyway, you have your view and I have mine. The original thread was about masons in the RAF. I have no experience of that grouping so shall leave it to others to contribute.
This subject has become uninteresting since we are each stating and restating our views and affecting no one.