>>140801
Not OP but I know about the Rosicrucians. It's not something you can really do solo per se, because then you wouldn't be a Rosicrucian, you'd just be your own thing, whatever that may be, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. But they have a heavy emphasis on not just reading, but practising, and to learn their methods you'll need to learn from them directly.
The Rosicrucians are very conscious of egregores and to their credit, do all they can to prevent the establishment of an entrenched egregore. They won't take you by the hand and lead you every step of the way, just guide you and share knowledge with you. They come from all walks of life and there are a lot of scientists, doctors etc so they draw from a very wide pool of knowledge. The advantage to communicating with them is that you get to share that knowledge which can be hard to find elsewhere.
They are hermeticists, taking a somewhat pantheistic approach that I find correlates with all religions. If you want to find out more, find out who has been a Rosicrucian. Francis Bacon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Littlefield, Anton Mesmer - to name just a small few.
You don't have to entrust your path to the eyes of another, but you'd be a fool to turn down the knowledge possessed by others. Guidance and control are not at all the same.