On 1785, Conde Alessandro de Cagliostro founded the Egyptian Masonry.
Between 1810 and 1813, in Naples (Italy), the three Bedarride brothers (Michel, Marc and Joseph) received the Supreme Powers of the Order of Misraïm and developed the Rite of Misraïm in France. They made official it in Paris in 1814. The Rite was made up of 90 degrees, taken from the masónico escocismo, the martinismo and other masónicas currents, and the four last degrees received the name of “Arcane Arcanorum”.
In 1815, in Montauban (France), the Lodge constituted itself Mother of the Rite of Memphis, with the Great Master Samuel Honis like Head, to which it happened to him, in 1816, Gabriel-Mathieu Marconis. In 1838, Jean Etienne Marconis de Nègre, son of the previous one, assumed the direction of the Rite of Memphis. The Rite of Memphis reached the 92 and 95 degrees.
Already in 1881, Giusseppe Garibaldi unified the Rites of Memphis and Misraïm, reaching in 1900 the Head of both unified Rites Francesco degli Oddi.
In 1902, John Yarker replaces degli Oddi and Theodor Reuss settles down the Sovereign Sanctuary of Memphis-Misraïm in Germany. The Rite reached the 97 degrees.
1913, after the death of Yarker, Reuss the International of the Rite became the Head. In 1924, Reuss happened to the eternal East and the succession of the Rite was in the OTO and another line that we treated immediately. The OTO had assumed the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, although in a reduced version, where their main degrees were gotten up.
In 1909, Reuss gave a patent to Gerard Encausse, Papus, and it initiated the other line of mentioned succession. The successors of Papus were Charles Detré (Tedé), Jean Bricaud, Constant Chevillon, Charles-Henry Dupont and Robert Ambelain. In 1939, Jean Bricaud happened to the eternal East and was happened by Chevillon. In 1944, Chevillon was assassinated by the French colaboracionistas of the national-socialism and Dupont happened to him. And, in 1960, Ambelain happened to Dupont.
In 1973, Francesco Brunelli is named by Robert Ambelain Head of the Rite in Italy. And, in 1981, Frank G. Ripel reconstructs the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm like successor of Francesco Brunelli in Italy, with the name of Egyptian Eastern Order of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm. In 1999, Frank G. Ripel makes enter “dreams” his Rite. In the 2003, Frank G. Ripel, after contacting with Gabriel Lopez de Rojas, “wakes up” his Rite with the name of Egyptian Masonry of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm. The 1 of May of the 2003, the Ripel initiate, like degree 99º and Great Hierophante of the Egyptian Masonry of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, grants to Gabriel Lopez de Rojas the degree 96º or National Head for Spain, with authority for the degrees 1º-95º, whereas the 1 of August of the 2003 beside the point grants to the degree 97º or Substitute to him of the Head the International for the countries of Castilian and Portuguese language.
The Operative Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of our Societas OTO (Ordo Templi Orientalis), therefore, both assumes more important lineages of Memphis-Misraïm: the one of the OTO of Aleister Crowley (via David Bersson, Marcelo Ramos Motta and Karl Germer) and the one of Robert Ambelain (via Frank G. Ripel and Francesco Brunelli).
OPERATIVE RITE OF MEMPHIS-MISRAÏM
At the end of the 2000, Gabriel Lopez de Rojas, after receiving the first ranks of the Society OTO-Astrum Argentum de David Bersson, direct descendant of of the OTO of Aleister Crowley, and to represent it in Spain, was unmarked of her and its chaotic situation and reconstructed it.
Then, on February of the 2001, Lopez de Rojas founded on Barcelona (Spain) our Societas OTO (Ordo Templi Orientalis), uniting the degrees of the Rite of the Society OTO-Astrum Argentum de Bersson, heir of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of the OTO of Aleister Crowley, with degrees of the Operative Rite of the Illuminated ones of Baviera of 13 degrees of initiation of the Illuminati Order. This paramasónica order was founded by him on the spring of 1995, in Barcelona, Spain, after contacting with the Illuminati of the United States.
Really, in the first months of year 2001, the Rite of our Societas OTO, with the name of Operative Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, it was structured in 7 degrees of initiation: Probationer, Minerval, Magister, Kadosh Templario, Chief inspector of the Illuminati, Illuminated Priest, Rex Summus Sanctissimus, with two internal orders, the Ordo Astrum Argentum and a Ecclesia Gnóstica.
In February of the 2003, the Frater Daniel Dragnea, Sovereign of the Order of Memphis of Rumania, granted the maximum degree to him of its Egyptian Rite of XXIº degrees, the degree Royal Arch or XXº. In April of the 2003, from Red it received the rank XIIº, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, of the Egyptian Rite of Memphis of the Arcane Order of But and the Black Crow of Brazil. And the 1 of May of the 2003, occultist Italian Frank G. Ripel, degree 99º and Great Hierophante of the Egyptian Masonry of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, granted to Lopez de Rojas the degree 96º or National Head for Spain, with authority for the degrees 1º-95º, whereas the 1 of August of the 2003 beside the point granted to the degree 97º or Substitute to him of the Head the International for the countries of Castilian and Portuguese language. The Egyptian Masonry of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm de Ripel descended from Francesco Brunelli, Great Master of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm in Italy, and Robert Ambelain, Great World-wide Master of this Rite.
With those high degrees (96º and 97º) in the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of Italy and other masónicos Rites, Lopez de Rojas enriched the Rite of Societas OTO a posteriori. And, in September of year 2003, the Rite of Societas OTO was structured completely, with the denomination Operative Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, in 10 degrees: Probationer, Minerval, Smaller and Greater Magician, Royal Arch, Sovereign Prince of the Rosacruz, Kadosh Horseman, Sovereign Great Chief inspector, Inspecting Illuminated Great Consagrador, Illuminated Priest Great Conservative, Rex Summus Sanctissimus. The first degrees came from the Rite of the Society OTO-Astrum Argentum, heir of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of the OTO of Aleister Crowley, and the superior degrees came from the Illuminati Order, although all the structure of the Rite, however, already was enriched essentially by the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm. Degree XIº of the OTO of Crowley was contemplated like extension of degree IXº.
Societas OTO and its Operative Rite of Memphis-Misraïm assume the System of initiation of the OHO Gabriel Lopez de denominated Rojas Rojismo.
In order to finish the explanation, it is necessary to aim that, next to each degree of the Operative Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of Societas OTO, the member of Societas OTO in addition it receives the ranks of two internal orders, the Ordo Astrum Argentum and the Ecclesia Gnóstica, and the degrees, the rituals and the lessons of the Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm.
The following table expresses all the exposed one.
OPERATIVE RITE OF MEMPHIS-MISRAÏM OF SOCIETAS OTO: THE DEGREES AND THE MATERIAL THAT SENTREGA TO THE MEMBERS
DEGREES OPERATIVE RITE OF MEMPHIS-MISRAÏM ORDO ASTRUM ARGENTUM ECCLESIA GNÓSTICA OLD AND PRIMITIVE RITE OF MEMPHIS-MISRAÏM
Degree 1º Probationer Iº Neophyte
Degree 2º Minerval IIº Dominus Liminis
Degree 3º Magician Smaller and Greater IIIº
Degree 4º Royal Arch IVº Adeptus
Apprentice 1º, Companion 2º, Teacher 3º,
Royal Arch 13º
Degrees
5º, 6º, 7º
(they are given together) Sovereign Prince of the Rosacruz Vº,
Horseman Kadosh VIº,
Great sovereign
Chief inspector VIIº Magister Templi
Sovereign Prince of the Rosacruz 18º,
Kadosh horseman 30º,
Great sovereign
Chief inspector 33º
Degree 8º Illuminated inspector
Great Consagrador VIIIº Magus
Great Consagrador 66º
Degree 9º
Illuminated priest
Great Conservative IXº Ipsissimus Degrees of the Ecclesia Gnóstica Sublimate Teacher of
Great Work 90º (Misraïm) and
Great Conservative 95º (Memphis)
Degree 10º Rex Summus Sanctissimus Xº
