I have only read as far as page 6. I need to go to bed tonight, so a comment on what I know, hopefully not repeating everything you already know, and remember this is mostly what I have been told or have read. If there are any errors I am sure that I will quickly corrected.
Freemasons have to believe in a 'god'. Someone who created what we have around us (good and bad). They swear on their own 'holy' book when they are admitted to the Lodge at their first ceremony.
There is a rank system, which you have to go through learning and testing, to achieve promotion.
They have functions, which both members and their partners can come along to. I don't know if there is any compulsion.
They always push the "we collect for charity" message. Like royalty's involvement in charity I am not sure if it any of their own money.
A company at which I worked, the CEO was a freemason. He used to employ members of the lodge to repair the buildings. Rumour had it that he was having the bill inflated, so that the builder could carry out free work on the CEOs house.
There are freemason lodges for women. My now elderly mum used to be a member. I had no idea about this until years later. She said something to the effect that that she left because it was so misandristic, and she felt that the environment had become toxic. Her last comment on the subject was that the other members were always glad enough when men were involved in fixing their washing machine, recovering her broken down car at the side of the road, laying concrete patios but had nothing good to say about them otherwise. Thank god she never came here and read what we say about men! She grew up in a very much equal household, dad being a kind and forward thinking man, sadly no longer with us.