Freemasons - Knights of Malta - Skull and BonesThe secret societies in early times required secrecy mainly to avoid persecution by the church.
Today secret societies are common public knowledge ever since around the 17th century, but secrecy is still maintained between the members from non-members, and within the order, the higher degrees do not share the knowledge of what they have been initiated into with the lower degrees, primarily because the teachings are based on a sequential structure and unfoldment of knowledge that is built upon what is learned in each successive degree.
A possible analogy would be that, it would not make sense that you would share advanced calculus with someone just starting to learn basic algebra, you need to learn in steps in order to build upon your knowledge.
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