Many years ago, when I lived in San Diego, I was a member of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, AMORC, and a founding member of the lodge there. Most people familiar with AMORC from their at one time omnipresent ads in magazines such as Popular Mechanics and FATE know them for their mail order lessons. What many people don't know is that they also have actual group meetings and sites.
AMORC's Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California
One of the things I remember about the public meetings was a statement at many of the rituals about the two great questions of existence:
Life, and what comes before, and
Death, and what comes after.
People seek to know that our very essence, our soul or spirit,