What does counting (57th) imply? Choice of ONE to count perceived ALL. A degree implies progression; yet having the choice to perceive and count progression implies being progressed as form (life) within flow (inception towards death).

If one is progressed towards death...why count degrees of progression instead of resisting it for the sustenance of self?

If you consent to be in the Illuminati; you represent an order follower within a chain of command under the will others; and therefore in ignorance of illumination aka being progressed by the source of light as a choice based response to it. It is that choice (need over want) that then causes enlightenment for the one within light.