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Former Freemason here. I'll tell you what Masons do and you can take it or leave it.
When a Mason joins, he's Initiated, has to memorize a bunch of shit regarding the ritual he went through, then is Passed, memorizes that shit, and later is Raised (he's supposed to memorize that as well but at that point who's going to check him).
At that point (maybe earlier, depending on the degree the lodge decides to open on), he attends monthly/bi-monthly lodge business meetings. There's an opening ritual, the minutes from the previous are read, the secretary goes through correspondence, the lodge votes to pay any outstanding bills, and then the lodge discusses matters of lodge business such as upcoming initiations, the summer picnic, maybe an upcoming dinner, or a charity event - whatever (and yes, these are the types of things discussed, not world domination or any nonsense like that).
At some point the lodge might go to refreshment, during which there might be a lesson or non-Masonic guests or some other event open to non-Masons, and afterwards the lodge comes back from refreshment and closes.
There are also appendant bodies like the Scottish Rite and the York Rite. These are the so-called "Higher degrees", but they are understood to be expansions alongside the third degree and not above them.
Usually after someone is a Mason for a short time, they're suckered into entering the Lodge officer line, usually as a steward, where they help with dinner. Every year they move up the line, from Junior Steward to Senior Steward to Junior Deacon to Senior Deacon to Junior Warden to Senior Warden to finally Worshipful Master. The highest three offices are voted upon by the lodge but usually rotate in from lower positions, and each serves for a year. The Worshipful Master becomes a Past Master after his year in the east, at which point his main power is bitching about what the current Worshipful Master is doing wrong.
There's quite a bit more but this is the bulk of it.