# 2026-06-26 - Inside the United Lodge of Theosophists in Los Angeles > [!note] Photo Journey No. 62 > Published October 25, 2026, in [[photo journey/welcome|Photo Journey]].  *A book-lined room inside the United Lodge of Theosophists, the lodge Robert Crosbie founded in Los Angeles in 1909, at West 33rd Street and Grand Avenue, on a Friday evening in late June 2026, when Bryant had come to watch a live performance of Antigone. A leather sofa and armchairs gather on a Persian rug over honey-colored floorboards; tables are stacked with books, glass-fronted bookcases line the walls, and a stained-glass lamp glows beside an orchid in a blue-and-white pot. Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, first staged in Athens around 442–440 BC, is set in Thebes after a civil war in which Antigone's brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed each other. When King Creon forbids burial for the rebel Polynices, Antigone buries him anyway, honoring the gods and her family over the edict of the state, and Creon sentences her to be sealed alive in a cave. His refusal to yield costs him everything: Antigone dies, his son Haemon, her betrothed, takes his own life, and his wife Eurydice follows.* ## Reflections ## Location <iframe width="100%" height="300" style="border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius:8px" loading="lazy" src="https://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-118.2816%2C34.0170%2C-118.2696%2C34.0250&layer=mapnik&marker=34.0209972%2C-118.2755583"></iframe> [Open in OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=34.0209972&mlon=-118.2755583#map=16/34.0209972/-118.2755583) · [Open in Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps?q=34.0209972,-118.2755583)