Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00132)

"As far as secret societies go, it is always a source of higher personal
status to belong to a group of which no-one else knows anything! The
history of inner groups, and inner groups of inner groups (ad infinitum!)
is one of personal aggrandizment and the accumulation of (meaningless)
claims of superiority over the "common herd". Being able to deny knowledge
of or entry into any society seems to give some strange people an enormous
sense of power and importance."

Dr Gregory Tillett