"Lucifer, the Light-bearer ! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! It is he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls? Doubt it not!"
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, p321, 19th Degree of Grand Pontiff

Freemasonry is by definition a “secret society”. It uses a secret system of communication to identify its members towards obtaining preferential treatment in business, politics and every walk of life. It also utilizes this system within the courtroom to obtain favourable judgments that would not otherwise be rendered. In other words it is a system used to corrupt the court system for its own personal advantage on a daily basis. Masonic members all know this and will use its reputation of preferential treatment for recruitment purposes. As a result many members have joined for the express purpose of gaining access to this preferential treatment that enables them to circumvent the usual social norms of fair and equitable treatment. While some members join for the social and charitable aspects, most fall victim to this system. One of the dangerous aspects of Freemasonry is that good people can be compromised in their moral value system by association with a corrupt system of favoritism.