/lit/ - Literature

>>15013191
Sorry, but none. What you talking about is the profanation of Freemasonry, not everybody who's part of it actively shits on Freemasonry by briging in their mundane interests.

I am young, of no special condition or family and managed to enter just because I knocked. No I did not have sex with old men or with goats. Not sure about the US, but here in Europe there are a lot of people who, while some may hide profane reasonings, actually care about the principles and try to better themselves and others.

>>15013228
Yes and no.

Yes as you could argue *any* initiatory group can in some way or another, be a diluted form of some older, more authentic group. But this is the chain of history, you can apply this lens on any activity or art and conclude it's a larp. For Freemasonry Rosicrucianism is a thorny subject (sic) as for me at least it's clear that some form of Rosecrux Brotherhood existed and probably went underground only to disseminate in various forms which later became certain ritual degrees reconsolidated by Freemasonry. For the history of Rosicrucianism I would look at the Ismaili and certain branches of English FM

No - as Form can generate content.