Eek, I see! Yes that would be creepy, as the doctrines collide a lot -- perhaps I'm ignorant regarding the OES, but it seems like Masonry and witchcraft should not go in hand, yet it seems that all too often, this is the case.
Organized crime could be magically inflicted, sure. Lots of people on the older forums talked about that stuff.
There are even a few Spongebob cartoons that poke fun at Masonic group think. Cephalopod Lodge should bring it up on YouTube.
The author I mentioned, L'engle, pitted her autistic character Charles Wallace against the hive mind that dominates the fictional planet of Camazotz. He is fascinayed by The Man With Red Eyes, who is a lackey of the World Brain called IT. In the book Charles becomes wholly ensnared by the hive mind and has to be rescued by his older sister who is less susceptible to IT due to her great stubbornness.
I've had some awful premonition of the hive mind Norman, mostly in conjunction with computers, and I could not stop thinking there is something terrible out there. White sands and CERN are just two places.
The man in the book about candle magic I quoted in the thread about Youth said, its important to invoke powers as Inner Image, to take ownership of energies and give them our human attributes and not vice versa. Not to let the powers run away with us or cling to a blind or nonexiistent entity.
Harsh words but sadly most modern witches are not deists. Any religion that let's a person blame God for it all lacks dimension.
The deceased mathematician John Nash might have been able to explain the "Tao" of the continuum vs the limitations in individual thinking, but his brain was different therefore his reality was different.