" ... And as far as "secret" and "secrecy" are concerned, I want to say this. It is not Masons that embrace secrecy: in fact, there is no secret; it is secrecy that embraces them, as sort of unavoidable mythological an implication. It is not correct to say that Masons promote secrecy: they endure it. Or, if you like, it is not a predilection of the Masons, but their complication.
It is not a matter of victimization, it is a matter of fatality. Secrecy comes to the Mason as a self imposing physiological element, as a metabolite necessarily rooted in the elected fabric.
In this sense, secrecy holds no real object: it is an empty bag, whose value resides in having a mythological range, and not a literal one.
This is why the key of the Secret Master in the Scottish Rite is broken (more: it is closed within an urn): there is nothing mysterious to be open with it... The task of the Master Mason is not that of remolding it: the urn is locked, and you cannot draw the key that unlocks it, if the key that unlocks the urn, is sealed within the locked urn - and it is broken too.
The task of the Mason is precisely that of managing the key exactly as it is being delivered to him/her. It is something to be treasured or to be contemplated, not to be pried.
This is why masons are the first to ignore what this notorious secret could be, and profanes speculate about it a great deal more than it would deserve, till the point they often deem that an outsider might know better about "real" Freemasonry than an insider does, when the latter argues that there is no actual secret. ... "
~ From The Mephistophelian + 0.1: Speculative Freemasonry and Operative Freemasonry in the Squared Declension ~
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