It's not a fucking code number... it's the 33rd and final degree, which is an honorary degree, in masonry. There's actually only 32...  But its certainly not fucking code. They started from one and had to count up and it has to stop somewhere, it's fucking numbers... they go in sequential order....  Some of y'all kill me with this fucking shit.... Do you have any fucking clue how many times the number 17, 33, or any other magical code number appear in this world???  and do you honestly fucking think that every time they pop up in first grade, second grade, third grade, high school, news, your career, advertisements, commercials, or any fucking where, because their goddamn relatively low numbers, do you honestly think they're all code?  My blood pressure is already way too high today.... y'all are going to cause me to pop a fucking aneurysm..... People can't be this fucking stupid..  they just can't be, I refuse to believe that.