Freemasonry
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- scarabin0
it's an initiatory system guarding a central teaching. you might not have considered this, but some knowledge must be prepared for. some realizations simply cannot take place without an extensive framework of concept, experience, and symbology to base it on. the lower degrees are NECESSARY in order to understand the teachings of the higher ones.
that's why there are degrees, that's why there are secrets. you don't know their secret teachings not because you don't belong to some bullshit bloodline or you're not rich enough or whatever you heard on paranoid talk radio, it's because you're simply not ready to receive them.
HOWEVER, you must be invited to advance to the next degree and if the members above you feel you're not ready or not the right material you could plateau. you just have to show that you take it seriously and that you're a solid man.