Rene Laveau comes from a long line of Freemasons and the Eastern Star. Rather than hide that lineage or perform it, Rene carries it — and reframes it open. The Eastern Star, the women's order tied to Freemasonry, is the root the whole project grows from.
Same kitchen, wider table
The Eastern Star was always open; the reputation came later. In Rene's telling, his grandmothers and aunts made it sound like a kitchen — busy, warm, with rules that kept the food from burning. The mystery was a side effect of the discipline, never the point.
When you make the work open, you remove the only excuse anyone had to hoard it. That is the move The Society of the Silver Line makes: same kitchen, wider table.
Lineage carried, not displayed
In the language of the 3·6·9, the Eastern Star is the three — the lineage, the people who shaped your spine. It is carried into the music as a private source, not worn as a costume.
The records and the HVN RTH drops are how that lineage becomes public-facing work — a branch of an old tree, grown toward the light instead of locked behind a door.