It's better to be red than dead

"Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings
are instruction in religion.

Masonry, like all religions, all the Mysteries,
Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all
except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect,
and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of
its symbols to mislead...to conceal the Truth, which it
calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it...

The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching
proportioned to their imperfect reason every man's conception
of God must be proportioned to his mental cultivation, and
intellectual powers, and moral excellence.

God is, as man conceives him, the reflected image of man
himself."

"The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh
reversed; for Satan is not a black god... Lucifer, the Light
Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of
Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears
the Light...Doubt it not!"

-- Albert Pike,
   Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of
   Universal Freemasonry,
   Morals and Dogma