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>>10900298the pretentious larper bit, not the satanist papist bit.
basically they're just social clubs for old men to pretend that they're in on some exclusive arcane wisdom, except in this day and age, many of them don't actually hold the wisdom they claim to have, and knowledge of it is far more readily available in the public world.
I have been asked by a freemason if I would be interested in becoming one, and I have seriously considered it. But in all of our discussions, as much as I've enjoyed them, he hasn't added anything beyond what I have learnt from books and the internet, and I'm struggling to see the point in freemasonry. I'm interested in actual spiritual practice, and to me, freemasonry seems far too coloured by its social, recreational and exoteric elements for me to be interested in entrusting my salvation with them, as it were.
the freemason I know is specifically a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. I've read The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, and it is a fascinating book. But in all of my research into SRIA, they don't actually seem to be that focused on the Rosicrucian corpus at all, and seem more interested in Qabalah than anything. And while I don't think Qabalah is inherently wrong, it is very much contingent on its Jewish cultural roots, and on Hebraic gematria. As a spiritual path, it doesn't really speak to me, aside from fragments of it which it shares by analogy with other faiths and practices.
