The Egyptian Masonic Order is offering a free copy of their magazine, KNEPH. Their website touts their order as being devoted to the Ancient and Primitive Rites of Memphis-Misraim and Traditional Egyptian Rite. I think this could make for interesting reading.
Visit www.emo.org.uk to email them requesting a copy.
Here’s some info posted on their site:
Memphis-Misraïm is a Masonic Rite which was formed by the merging of the two Rites of Memphis and Misraïm under the influence of General Garibaldi in 1881. They may be practised separately, in tandem, or with one Rite taking precedence.
The Rite of Memphis
The Rite of Memphis was constituted by Jacques Etienne Marconis de Nègre in 1838, as a variant of the Rite of Misraïm, combining elements from Templarism and Chivalry with Egyptian and Alchemical mythology. It has 99 Degrees, the last four being administrative. It is the main initiatory Rite of our Order.
The Rite of Misraïm
From as early as 1738, one can find traces of this Rite filled with alchemical, occult and Egyptian references, with a structure of 90 Degrees. Influenced by the Neopolitan occult and alchemical tradition of the 18th century, the Baron Tschoudy, the Bedarride brothers, and Count Cagliostro, a key character of his time, each gave the Egyptian Rite the impulse necessary for its development. Misraïm may also be spelled Mizraim.
The Traditional Egyptian Rite
The works of Cagliostro, Baron Tschoudy, Raimondo di Sangro, and Bedarride have left us many workable elements of the Traditional Egyptian Rite. St. Martin, Pernety, Papus, Levi, Reuss, Burt, Castelli, Yarker, Bertiaux, Ambelain, Kloppel, and other esoteric scholars and Egyptian Masters have subsequently influenced and developed the Egyptian Rites all over the world, including the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm. Our Rite preserves the Ritual Wisdom of the past masters, yet remains a living and innovative Mystery Tradition.
