internal cliques within the freemasons go far beyond the advertised banquet dinners, so much so that they have been known to pull drive bys on each other.  depending on how generationally removed you are from masonry you may be either barred from entering the freemasons, or have no knowledge of these internal cliques while attending lodges on a banquet dinner level.  the tempel ov blood is run by freemasons who are members of one of these internal circles
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