GR translation: can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids

[Mike Jing]

V587.26-35   Some of the American Founding Fathers were Masons, for
instance There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a
gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the
Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye
crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to
believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century
Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure
chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on
the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.

What are "shivers and voids" exactly, especially "voids"?
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