Absolutely brilliant article. Like several of your posts, I will be thinking about this for quite some time. I can relate to all groups and found thus to be well thought out and intriguing. Personally, I would rename the Cousins, to "Xenia"- the Greek concept of hospitality to strangers. To me, fundamentally, the Masons are more like the last group, the non hive group. FreeMasons include people of all faiths and creeds around the world. Such as Voltaire, as mentiined, who attended the same Masonic Lodge in France with Benjamin Franklin. Some speculate that Francis Bacon started Speculative Masonry as we know it now a days.
