Frater Bob McDonald, also known as Frater Meinrad is the Prior of the Gnostic Church of Dharma and Virtue in Southern Indiana. The Gnostic Church of Dharma and Virtue is a Modern Gnostic church in the Sacramental traditions of the Western culture. While being Sacramental in approach, the Gnostic Church of Dharma and Virtue embraces and upholds the eastern method, The teachings of the Gnostic Church of Dharma and Virtue are understood to be the Attainment of Gnosis through Unification, Amalgamation, Syncretism and Radical Inclusion combined into an esoteric lifestyle also known in the Church as “The Golden Path.”

Frater Bob along with being a practicing Gnostic and Prior of his Church is also an initiate in several Western Mystery traditions ,a Teacher of Kabbalah, a certified Reiki practitioner and an initiate in the Shaivite branch of Hinduism.