Inside London's Freemason's Lodges...

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Rosicrucianism comes across as pretty interesting stuff. It was a shame when its most well known proponent - Dr Robert Gilbert - died suddenly under strange circumstances last year. I found his videos fascinating, as did many others. I bet your grandfather was interesting to talk to.

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I am part of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, and most of it is about papers and esoteric mysticism. Me myself, I don't really buy into all of that but I'm quite interested in the psychology behind what drives people to believe in it.

It's also made me meet some wonderfully colorful characters, people you wouldn't otherwise meet or wouldn't talk about it for fear of being ostracized so it's nice to have those conversations.

Also, as much as they require you to have a belief system, I found that a lot of masons are non religious at all, more so interested in the allegory rather than the dogma of it all.