No thank you, I do not wish to be initiated into the third degree to be struck on the forehead in the dark, falling back either into a coffin or a coffin shape design, then open your eyes to be confronted with a human skull and crossed bones. Under this death threat how can any freemason of third degree or higher be trusted, particularly in public office? You're hoodwinked literally and metaphorically, placing yourself in a cult and about the ring on the third finger, "you are wrong" I should also point out to you, that you have spelt intruiges wrong. It should read intrigues meaning a secret or underhand scheme.