I finally got a tour of this place...............the same security guard was there.......he put up some resistance..........playing games with me.........telling me to put my plastic bag on top of the coat rack............but when other people came along.........he didn't make any of them keep their bags up front..............

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Conspiracists try to decode Masonic symbols, like those in the temple's stained-glass ... Mammoth sphinxes guard the House of the Temple of the Scottish Rite, ...