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Journal articles on the topic "Masonic rituals"

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Camp, Pannill. "May Philosophy Flourish: Pantheisticon, Freemasonry, and Eighteenth-Century Ritual Philosophy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 553–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9295065.

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In eighteenth-century Europe, ritual performance behavior was consciously used for philosophical purposes. The richest documented instances of this involved Freemasonry, a voluntary fraternal order that drew tens of thousands of men, across Europe and beyond, into a secretive ritual practice. Masons understood ritual, the core of Masonic “craft,” as a philosophical activity in itself. Supporting this claim requires a critique of the prevalent view that Freemasonry was uniquely compatible with specific Enlightenment philosophical constructs—constitutional monarchism in political thought and deistic Newtonianism in natural philosophy. Rather than expressing these specific philosophical views, Masonic ritual effectuated philosophical reflection apart from the outside world. John Toland's proto-Masonic ritual document Pantheisticon shows how early modern rituals fostered thinking in lodge settings and distinguished between Masonic and “profane” entities. On this basis it can be argued that performance in this era and beyond should be understood as the generative containment of knowledge.

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Milinkevičiūtė, Daiva. "TARP DVIEJŲ KOLONŲ: XVIII A. PABAIGOS – XIX A. PRADŽIOS VILNIAUS MASONŲ KASDIENYBĖ SIMBOLIKOJE." Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė Visuomenė. Kasdienybės istorija, T. 4 (October 8, 2018): 144–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33918/xviiiastudijos/t.4/a6.

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The Age of Enlightenment is defined as the period when the universal ideas of progress, deism, humanism, naturalism and others were materialized and became a golden age for freemasons. It is wrong to assume that old and conservative Christian ideas were rejected. Conversely, freemasons put them into new general shapes and expressed them with the help of symbols in their daily routine. Symbols of freemasons had close ties with the past and gave them, on the one hand, a visible instrument, such as rituals and ideas to sense the transcendental, and on the other, intense gnostic aspirations. Freemasons put in a great amount of effort to improve themselves and to create their identity with the help of myths and symbols. It traces its origins to the biblical builders of King Solomon’s Temple, the posterity of the Templar Knights, and associations of the medieval craft guilds, which were also symbolical and became their link not only to each other but also to the secular world. In this work we analysed codified masonic symbols used in their rituals. The subject of our research is the universal Masonic idea and its aspects through the symbols in the daily life of the freemasons in Vilnius. Thanks to freemasons’ signets, we could find continuity, reception, and transformation of universal masonic ideas in the Lithuanian freemasonry and national characteristics of lodges. Taking everything into account, our article shows how the universal idea of freemasonry spread among Lithuanian freemasonry, and which forms and meanings it incorporated in its symbols. The objective of this research is to find a universal Masonic idea throughout their visual and oral symbols and see its impact on the daily life of the masons in Vilnius. Keywords: Freemasonry, Bible, lodge, symbols, rituals, freemasons’ signets.

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Small, Alastair, and Carola Small. "South Italy, England and Elysium in the Eighteenth Century." Antiquaries Journal 79 (September 1999): 301–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500044553.

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In a complex of interconnecting tunnels at Avigliano in South Italy there are two inscriptions at two entrances in eighteenth century lettering referring, one to Inferno, the other to Elysium. The measurements of the spatial components of the tunnels refer to Pythagorean numerology. The complex is on land formerly belonging to the local Corbo family and was probably constructed about 1762 by Carlo Corbo for rituals of the mystical, somewhat unorthodox Neapolitan freemasonry of the time. They can be compared to the tunnels at West Wycombe, England where Sir Francis Dashwood who, like many contemporaries, was acquainted with Italian freemasonry, apparently parodied such masonic ideas. The Avigliano tunnels were still in use in 1838. By then the Corbo were embroiled in revolutionary politics perceived as having masonic links.

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Hale, Amy. "Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders (review)." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 6, no. 2 (2011): 227–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2011.0021.

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Ormières, Jean-Louis. "Alexandra Heidle, Jan A. M. Snoek (éd.), Women's Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders." Archives de sciences sociales des religions, no. 156 (December 31, 2011): 174. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/assr.23500.

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Dorman, Jacob S. ""I Saw You Disappear with My Own Eyes": Hidden Transcripts of New York Black Israelite Bricolage." Nova Religio 11, no. 1 (August 1, 2007): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2007.11.1.61.

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To date, scholars have tended to view Black Israelites as mercenary, derivative, or imitative. However, this microhistorical reading of the public, partial, and hidden transcripts of New York Rabbi Wentworth Arthur Matthew's beliefs and ritual practices demonstrates that Black Israelites did not simply imitate Jews, but rather they were bricoleurs who constructed a polycultural religion that creatively reworked threads from religious faiths, secret societies, and magical grimoires. Black Israelite religious identity was imagined and performed in sidewalk lectures and in Marcus Garvey's Liberty Hall; it was embodied through Caribbean pageants, and acted out in parades. Black Israelism was lived through secret Spiritualist and Kabbalistic rituals, and taught openly through Sunday Schools and Masonic affiliates. Finally, it was an identity that was formed and performed in a mixture of Sanctified and Judaic rites. Print culture, performance, and complex social networks were all important to the imagination and realization of this new Israelite religious identity. Recognizing the subversive quality of this bricolage and the complexity of its partial and hidden transcripts belies attempts to exclude esoteric African American new religious movements from the categories of protest religion and black religion. When one combines the study of Black Israelism with similar studies of African American NRM's of the 1920s, it is possible to appreciate a remarkable wave of overlapping esoteric religious creativity that accompanied the much more famous artistic creativity of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Howey, Meghan C. L., and John O'Shea. "On Archaeology and the Study of Ritual: Considering Inadequacies in the Culture-History Approach and Quests for Internal “Meaning”." American Antiquity 74, no. 1 (January 2009): 193–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600047582.

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Mason contends that we (Howey and O'Shea 2006) created a "chimera" of the Missaukee Earthworks site as a regional ceremonial center in Late Prehistoric Michigan (A.D. 1200-1600) by misinterpreting archaeological and ethnohistoric data. In considering Mason's critique, we re-emphasize the value, and methods, of studying ritual via material remains and show that Mason’s arguments simply serve to exemplify why the culture-historic approach has failed in its effort to understand the pre-contact Native cultures of the Great Lakes. Whitley contends we are misguided about the aims of archaeological studies of ritual and the place of "meaning" in these studies. In considering the "meaning" archaeologists seek in our studies of past ritual, we emphasize the problems we see in quests for what is ultimately immaterial and unrecoverable, the internal or emotive "meaning" of past ritual.

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Jacob, Margaret C. "HEIDLE, Alexandra, Jan A.M. Snoek (eds), Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders (Boston, MA: Brill, 2008), p. 263 xvi + 450 pp.; €145/$129 Hbk; ISBN: 978 90 04 17239 5." Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 1, no. 2 (December 19, 2010): 265–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jrff.v1i2.265.

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KOROLEV, Yu A. "A MASONIC ARTIFACT IN OREL: THE FEATURES OF ONE RELIGIOUS STUDY." JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION 9, no. 3 (2020): 101–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2225-8272-2020-9-3-101-110.

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The purpose of the article is to present the results of a preliminary religious and historical-cultural study of the band with Masonic symbols from the collection of famous Orel collector P. Based on the analysis of the Masonic symbols placed on the band, the author defines this artifact as part of the ritual vestment of a Mason of the 33-rd degree of dedication of the Scottish Charter of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and establishes its approximate dating. After a brief review of the history of this Masonic organization a hypothesis is put forward that this item belongs to specific individuals from among the leaders of the Scottish Charter of the United States. At the same time the author draws attention to cultural-historical and collectible value of this artifact and points out the desirability of conducting a comprehensive scientific examination.

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Batley, Edward. "WÄGES, Josef and MARKNER, Reinhard (eds), trans. Jeva SINGH-ANAND, The Secret School of Wisdom—The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati (Surrey: Lewis Masonic, 2015), 447pp., £25.00, ISBN 978 0 85318 493 5." Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 6, no. 1 (September 15, 2017): 131–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jrff.29080.

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Stemper, William. "Crafted links : the transformation of Masonic ritual order, 1772-1802; an intellectual history of the Preston-Webb synthesis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367876.

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Gruson, François. "Pratique rituelle et forme de l'espace : le temple maçonnique : forme, type et signification." Thesis, Lille 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL30040/document.

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L’architecture des temples maçonniques constitue un patrimoine vivant, mais peu étudié, notamment dans le cadre de la recherche universitaire. Elle présente pourtant un double intérêt. En tant qu’objet d’étude, tout d’abord, elle offre des caractéristiques formelles, spatiales et stylistiques suffisamment marquantes pour qu’on puisse souhaiter en faire la description, en cherchant à la fois à en définir les limites et les invariants, et aussi à en cerner les différentes variations au travers de tropismes liés à l’histoire, la géographie ou la culture dans laquelle elle se développe. Cette architecture présente également un intérêt en tant que sujet de recherche : elle est strictement dictée par des rituels précis qui en définissent à la fois la forme, l’organisation et l’usage. De ce point de vue, cette étude permet tout d’abord de revisiter les notions de type et de modèle, telles qu’elles avaient été définies dans le cadre de l’analyse typo-morphologique développée par la critique italienne dans les années 1970. Elle permet ensuite d’établir un lien entre l’usage, ici codifié par le rituel, et la forme architecturale, et de proposer l’esquisse d’une théorie de la concrétion, dans laquelle la forme de l’espace architectural serait comprise comme le résultat d’une pratique ritualisée de l’espace. La thèse se développe en trois parties. La première partie, qui s’ouvre sur un état de l’art, est consacrée à l’approche méthodologique et aux développements de la recherche, grâce notamment aux moyens liés aux technologies numériques et à l’informatique, qui ont permis l’élaboration du corpus de la recherche. La seconde partie est consacrée à l’analyse de ce corpus, qui s’appuie sur la dimension sociale, symbolique et architecturale du temple maçonnique. Enfin, la troisième partie propose un extrait du catalogue raisonné du corpus. Cet extrait recouvre l’Europe et l’Amérique du Nord
The architecture of the Masonic temples is a living heritage, but little studied, particularly in the context of academic research. Yet it has two advantages. As an object of study, first of all, it offers formal, spatial and sufficiently significant stylistic characteristics that we may wish to describe, seeking both to define the limits and invariants and also to identify different variations across tropisms related to history, geography or the culture in which it develops. This architecture offers also an interest as a subject of research: it is strictlydictated by specific rituals that define both form, organization and use. From this perspective, this study provides first revisit the concepts of type and model, as they were defined within the framework of the typo-morphological analysis developed by the Italian criticism in the 1970s. It establishes also a link between the use, here codifiedrituals, and architectural form, and suggest the outlines of a theory of concretion, within the form of architectural spaces would be understood as the result of ritualized practices of space. The thesis is developed in three parts. The first part, which opens a state ofknowledge, is devoted to the methodological approach and research developments, thanks to the means of digital technology and computers, which enabled the developmentof the corpus of research. The second part is devoted to the analysis of this corpus, based on the social, architectural and symbolic aspects of the Masonic Temple. The third part provides an extract of the of the corpus. This excerpt covers Europe and North America

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Mersch, Marie-Anne. "La franc-maçonnerie et les femmes au temps des Lumières : Angleterre, France et territoires allemands." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30055.

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La franc-maçonnerie spéculative s’est répandue en Europe de l’ouest durant tout leXVIIIe. Bien que les Constitutions d’Anderson interdisent catégoriquement l’admission des femmes dans les loges maçonniques, il s’avère que des femmes furent initiées en France et en Allemagne. La présente étude part du constat que nous sommes confrontés à un double phénomène en ce qui concerne la franc-maçonnerie et les femmes. D’un côté leur exclusion formelle des loges instituées pour les hommes dotées de règlements délivrés par leurs obédiences respectives. D’un autre côté l’existence prouvée de l’initiation des femmes dans des loges maçonniques. L’organisation de ces loges nous renvoie immédiatement à d’autres constats. Plusieurs questions se posent d’emblée. Quelles sont les raisons précises de cette exclusion et d’où tirent-elles leur origine? La définition de la femme fut-elle la même dans les sociétés anglaise, française et allemandes du XVIIIe siècle ? Si l’on parvient à identifier les causes, pourrons nous établir si elles sont intrinsèques à la franc-maçonnerie ou plutôt liées à la délimitation entre sphère publique et privée ? Enfin comment expliquer dès lors que cette exclusion ait pu être dépassée et contournée et qu’un modèle d’intégration des femmes ait pu être inventé? Dans une première partie la recherche repose sur les mentalités existantes dans les trois pays au vu des paroles des francs-maçons au sujet des femmes. Dans la deuxième partie sont analysés avec détail les arguments qui ont justifié l’exclusion des femmes de la franc-maçonnerie. La troisième partie est accordée aux loges féminines. Une attention particulière est apportée aux discours prononcés dans les loges féminines ainsi qu’aux différents rituels utilisés. Les sources à l’appui sont principalement des sources primaires, tels que des ouvrages du XVIIIe siècle, les articles de presse, mais aussi les chansons et les poèmes
Freemasonry spread throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. Although the Constitutions of Anderson barred women from membership right from the beginning, women were initiated in France and Germany. The present research starts from the observation that we are confronted to a double phenomenon. On the one hand the formal exclusion from male lodges according to the regulations of the Grand Lodges. On the other hand the proved existence of the initiation of women in masonic lodges. The organization of these lodges suggests other remarks and several issues have arisen. What are the precise reasons of this exclusion and what are its origins? Are women defined in the same way in England, France and Germany? If we can identify the reasons of this exclusion, are they intrinsic to freemasonry itself or rather linked to the definition of the public and private spheres? How can we explain that these rules of exclusion could be overcome and that a model of integration be invented? In the first part of this study the research is based on the mentalities existing in the three different societies with regard to the freemasons’ opinions on women. The second part is analysing the arguments brought forward to justify women’s exclusion from freemasonry. The third part deals with women's lodges and particular attention is given to the speeches delivered in these lodges as well as to the rituals in use. The documentation consists mostly in primary sources, such as books published in the eighteenth century, press articles, but also masonic songs and poems

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Brunet, Lynn Patricia. "Terror, trauma and the eye in the triangle: The Masonic presence in contemporary art and culture." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25875.

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This thesis examines the coexistence of traumatic themes and Masonic content in the work of contemporary visual artists. The project originated with a discovery of the depiction in my own artwork, produced in the context of a professional art career, of traces of terrifying early initiatory experiences in the context of a Masonic Lodge and using Masonic ritual and regalia. A number of key Masonic authors suggest that the Order draws on a mixed ancestry that contains not only the orderly and sombre rituals based on the practices of the early cathedral builders, but also initiatory rites from various cult groups of the Classical world that involve a course of severe and arduous trials. Recent research by scholars examining cult practices has indicated the existence of Masonic ritual abuse of children, based on the reports of a substantial number of survivors in western countries. Premised on this discovery, the thesis constitutes a feminist and interdisciplinary investigation into the impact of hidden fraternal initiation practices on the production of contemporary art. Examining Masonic themes, symbols and allegories in the context of the contemporary debates about trauma, the thesis initially argues that the concepts used to describe the impact of trauma on the individual psyche may be observed in symbolic form in the rites and practices of the Masonic tradition. This leads into an exploration of the work of five high profile international contemporary artists - the American artists Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman and Paul McCarthy, an early career painter Mark Ryden, and the Australian artist Ken Unsworth - as case studies, arguing that similar traces of initiatory trauma, along with Masonic references, may be identified in their work. Incorporating insights from trauma theory, scholarly discussions of initiation rites and ritual abuse, combined with knowledge of Masonic practices, this groundbreaking study sheds new light on these artists' work, in particular, on those aspects of the work that have hitherto remained obscure and perplexing for critics. The thesis also includes an examination of my own artwork in this light.

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Books on the topic "Masonic rituals"

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Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Nebraska. Nebraska masonic work. Lincoln, Neb: The Lodge, 1987.

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Kinney, Jay. The Masonic Myth. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

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Lomas, Robert. The secret science of Masonic initiation. Addlestone: Lewis Masonic, 2008.

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Lomas, Robert. The secret science of Masonic initiation. San Francisco, CA: Weiser Books, 2010.

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Hogan, Timothy W. The alchemical keys to Masonic ritual. LaVegene, TN: s.n., 2007.

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The secret science of Masonic initiation. San Francisco, CA: Weiser Books, 2010.

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Masonic ritual: A commentary on the freemasonic ritual. 2nd ed. London: Lewis Masonic, 1985.

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Ancient Masonry: The spiritual significance of Masonic rituals, degrees, and symbols. Los Angeles: Church of Light, 1994.

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Hunter, C. Bruce. Beneath the stone: The story of Masonic secrecy. Alexander, NC: WorldComm, 1998.

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1809-1891, Pike Albert, and Scottish Rite (Masonic order), eds. Reprints of rituals of old degrees. Washington, D.C: Scottish Rite Research Society, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "Masonic rituals"

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"Masonic Rituals of Initiation." In Handbook of Freemasonry, 319–27. BRILL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004273122_018.

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"Dealing With Deviations In The Performance Of Masonic Rituals." In When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual, 99–120. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004158115.i-377.28.

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"Freemason Feminists: Masonic Reform And The Women’S Movement In France, 1840-1914." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 219–42. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.47.

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"Index Of Orders And Lodges." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 425–28. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.115.

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"The Relationships Of Androgynous Secret Orders With Freemasonry. Documents On Theordre Des Hermites De Bonne Humeur In Sachsen-Gotha (1739-1758)." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 21–49. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.13.

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"The Grand Lodge Of Adoption, La Loge De Juste, The Hague, 1751: A Short-Lived Experiment In Mixed Freemasonry Or A Victim Of Elegant Exploitation?" In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 51–87. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.21.

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"The ‘Women’s Question’. The Discussion, Especially In The Nineteenth Century, About Opening Membership Of The Dutch Grand Lodge To Women." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 235–44. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.54.

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"Women And The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: Nineteenth Century Occultistic Initiation From A Gender Perspective." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 245–63. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.60.

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"Freemasonry And Suffrage: The Manifestation Of Social Conscience." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 341–57. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.87.

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"‘Builders Of The Temple Of The New Civilisation’: Annie Besant And Freemasonry." In Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, 359–91. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004172395.i-442.94.

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