I know the feeling about Masons, but I think, like the Catholic Church, they were infiltrated. Masonry pre baphomet nonsense was just about the old Temple, but (IMHO--this is speculation) the Brit not-really-royal family had the Masons heavily infiltrated. It's worth knowing about the old Temple in that the Ark is a direct pointer to Christ, but the Masons took a lot of the Egyptian stuff and basically started their own religion--a gnostic-type religion based on experience and interaction with demons.