2005 Conference
Seeking the Light
Freemasonry & Initiatic Traditions
The Seventh International Conference organised by CMRC
Saturday & Sunday 5-6 November 2005
Canonbury Academy, 6 Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ
Two Distinctive 18th-century Yorkshire Forms of Initiation
The Grand Lodge of All England & the St Lawrence Ceremony
Revd Neville Barker Cryer MA (Oxon) CCTH (Cantab)
Secret Societies and Western Esotericism
Dr Henrik Bogdan
Opera as Initiation
The Work of Sir Michael Tippett
Philip Carr-Gomm BSc
Seeking Enlightenment
Initiation & Ritual of “Oriental” Candidates
Pauline V. Chakmakjian
The First Rosicrucians
Tobias Churton MA
The Rosicrucian Manifestos (film)
Tobias Churton MA
Burlesquing The Brotherhood:
Elizabethan Drama Follows the Rubrics of a Masonic Initiation
Julia Cleave MA (Oxon) MA (Essex)
The Society of Gardeners Initiation Rites 1610
Robert Cooper FSA (Scot)
From Immortality of the Soul to Symbolism of the Cross
Ritual Reform in the Dutch Order of Freemasons, 1865-1906
Anat Harel
Ritual Actions & Meaning Among Freemasons
A sociological approach
J. Scott Kenney
Freemasonry as an Instrument of Initiation
Kirk MacNulty MBA (Stanford), MA (Tennessee)
Baptism and Masonic Initiation
Comparisons and Contrasts
David McCready MTheol (St Andrews) LicTheol (Strasbourg) MA (Belfast)
Entering the Courts of Heaven
Rituals of Initiation in Late Antiquity
Dr Peter Maxwell Stewart