Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5630100-20130725190703/@comment-44577070-20191203080019

Stan is a huckster road side attraction empresario. He must have bought the fez in a garage sale and very likely notca freemason let alone a shriner. That he wear a tuxedo like the freemasons and a fez is coincidence. He probably thought he was cutting dashing style. The masonic brotherhood goes back to Scotland was recorded in 1599 (mother lodge at Killwinning) but made formal in Great Britain in 1717 with the United Grand Lodge of England. If you real all available official literature it reads as judeo christian fraternity with legends going back to ancient biblical times. They teach allegory with symbols thrown in but morality and brotherhood is what they teach with philanthropy tossed in the mix. A. You can not have a criminal background. B. You got to believe in God aka supreme being. And yes there is an appendant body called the Holy Royal Arch. Hence the tongue in cheek counter part Order of the Holy Royal Mackeral.

The illuminati is totally unrelated creature. it was created by a former jesuit student named Adam Weishaupt but it got shut down by the Bavarian Police for its seditious nature. What passes for the modern day illuminati is another creature yet.

Yes, bill cipher is a demon wearing a hat which coincidently looks like masonic master of the lodge with a top hat. I did see a star that looks like an order of eastern star.

Hirsh added those symbolisms as a gag and something to give the show an X fike or conspiracy theory feel to the show. Did Hirah have a masonic relative? Probably. Just like the book Where the Wild things Are is inspirrd by the authors beloved older relatives so too likely were the characters of Gravity Falls.

If you pay attention to the credits you see Mational Enquirer references ie batboy etc.