Reference to Occulte, Old Rituals?

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2000)

I have not come across any in-depth (re)views with regard to the orgy seen in the movie in the hundreds of comments on the net. For anyone doing some reading on early christian sects, Maria Magdalene devotion, freemasonry and more of that kind, the movie immediately forwards associations of sorts. Looking at the ritual in the movie, there are a good number of remniscent elements: -Othordox/Catholic symbolism -Worship of the Feminine -Egyptian-like elements (masks in the inner circle) -Celebration of sex and the initiation into it -Initiation & secrecy as a key element in itself
The interesting thing is though that cults including elements such as described above have existed throughout the past 2000 years and have often been part of a not-evil but morally good "Christian" alternative to life, church, society and christianity in which sex and the female is not linked to "sin" or "guilt" but refers to something that is different but good.
I am not saying Kubrick was trying to convey this but I would be happy to see if there are people who would like to see these particular scenes from a different perspective.