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The Ancient and Primitive Rite is a masonic high-degree Rite similar to the York Rite, the Scottish Rite, the Rectified Scottish Rite, and the Rite of Misraim.
History
The Rite began around 1805 amongst Napoleon's soldiers in Egypt who were Freemasons. It was based primarily on the degree work of the Philadelphes of Narbonne as well as several other masonic Rites that were operating in France during this period. The Rite was then introduced to France from Egypt by Samuel Honis in 1815 and also spread to Italy. In 1856 the Rite was established in the USA, Romania, Australia and Switzerland by Jacques Etienne Marconis de Negre. After the Rite was chartered in the USA in 1862, it was the only Rite high-degree Rite in the USA to be recognized by the regular masonic powers and to have a charter of origin. During the Civil War, the Rite in the USA lost so many members that it fell into a decline from which it never recovered. The Rite did, however, continue to be practiced in Europe and was chartered for the jurisdiction of Chile in the 1920's where it is still practiced and where it survived until recent times. The Rite has experienced somewhat of a renaissance recently, and is now being practiced once again in the regular jurisdictions of France, Brazil, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic. Famous people who have been members of the Rite include Kenneth McKenzie, John Yarker, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Salvatore Zola, David McLellan and several members of the Romanian royal family prior to the suppression of Freemasonry as a whole by the Communists in that country.
The mysticism and rituals of people such as the Comte de Cagliostro, Martinez Pasqually and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin have influenced this Rite of Freemasonry.
Degrees
The Rite confers 91 degrees starting from the 4th degree and going to the 95th in four series. The Rite as it was originally practiced in Egypt also had symbolic lodge degrees which were unique just like the Scottish Rite and York Rite also have unique symbolic lodge degrees, which were the official ritual of the Grand Lodge of Egypt which was the masonic body in Egypt which was recognized by the Grand Lodge of England and most other Grand Lodges at that time. The degree rituals of the Rite are derived mainly from chivalry, and also from kabbalistic, hermetic and mythological sources, as well as the Bible. The degrees* of the Rite as they are worked today (in spanish), are thus:
- Section One - Chapter Rose + Croix
- 4 Grado - Maestro Discreto
- 5 Grado - Perfecto Maestro Arquitecto
- 6 Grado - Secretario Intimo o Sublime Maestro
- 7 Grado - Caballero Intendente de los Edificios
- 8 Grado - Maestro Prevoste y Juez
- 9 Grado - Caballero Maestro Electo de los Nueve
- 10 Grado - Ilustre Caballero Electo de los Quince
- 11 Grado - Sublime Caballero Electo
- 12 Grado - Caballero Gran Maestro Arquitecto
- 13 Grado - Caballero del Arco Real
- 14 Grado - Caballero Gran Electo de la Bóveda Sagrada
- 15 Grado - Caballero de la Espada o de Oriente
- 16 Grado - Caballero Príncipe de Jerusalén
- 17 Grado - Caballero del Oriente y Occidente
- 18 Grado - Caballero Rosa Cruz
- Second Section - Senate of Hermetic Philosophers
- 19 Grado - Sublime Escocés de la Jerusalén Celeste
- 20 Grado - Venerable Gran Maestro de las Logias
- 21 Grado - Caballero o Patriarca Noaquita
- 22 Grado - Caballero del Líbano o Real Hacha
- 23 Grado - Caballero Jefe del Tabernáculo
- 24 Grado - Caballero de la Águila Roja
- 25 Grado - Caballero de la Serpiente
- 26 Grado - Escocés Trinitario
- 27 Grado - Caballero de la Ciudad Santa
- 28 Grado - Caballero del Templo
- 29 Grado - Caballero Maestro Escocés
- 30 Grado - Gran Inquisidor
- 31 Grado - Sublime Príncipe del Real Misterio
- 32 Grado - Caballero Teutonico
- 33 Grado - Sublime Caballero Kadosch
- 34 Grado - Caballero de la Escandinava
- 35 Grado - Gran Caballero del Templo
- 36 Grado - Caballero Philalethes
- 37 Grado - Caballero Hospitalario
- 38 Grado - Caballero del León
- 39 Grado - Caballero Comendador de la Estrella
- 40 Grado - Grado- Caballero de la Triple Cruz
- 41 Grado - Caballero del Arco Iris
- 42 Grado - Caballero del Líbano
- 43 Grado - Sublime Sabio Filósofo Hermético
- Third Section - Sublime Council of the Mystic Temple
- 44 Grado - Caballero Masón Iluminado
- 45 Grado - Caballero Masón Sublime
- 46 Grado - Caballero Masón Perfecto
- 47 Grado - Caballero de las Siete Estrellas
- 48 Grado - Caballero Templario Kadosch de la Palestina
- 49 Grado - Sublime Sabio de las Pirámides
- 50 Grado - Sublime Caballero
- 51 Grado - Caballero del Phoenix
- 52 Grado - Minero Clave Masónica Grado 1
- 53 Grado - Lavador Clave Masónica Grado 2
- 54 Grado - Soplador Clave Masónica Grado 3
- 55 Grado - Fundidor Clave Masónica Grado 4
- 56 Grado - Escudero Novicio
- 57 Grado - Caballero Bienhechor de la Ciudad Santa
- 58 Grado - Profeso Caballero Bienhechor
- 59 Grado - Gran Profeso Caballero Bienhechor
- 60 Grado - Sublime Guardián de los Tres Fuegos
- 61 Grado - Sublime Juez Filosofo Desconocido
- 62 Grado - Sublime Sabio de Eléusis o de Heliópolis
- 63 Grado - Caballero de las tres Águilas
- 64 Grado - Sabio Pontífice de Mitras
- 65 Grado - Interprete de los Jeroglíficos
- 66 Grado - Gran Consagrador
- 67 Grado - Gran Eulogista
- 68 Grado - Caballero de la Cábala
- 69 Grado - Sabio Caballero de la Rama Dorada
- 70 Grado - Comendador de los Astros
- 71 Grado - Caballero del Temple
- 72 Grado - Caballero de los Argonautas
- 73 Grado - Aprendiz Elu Cohen
- 74 Grado - Compañero Elu Cohen
- 75 Grado - Maestro Elu Cohen
- 76 Grado - Grand Arquitecto
- 77 Grado - Grand Electo de Zorobabel
- 78 Grado - Comendador de Oriente
- 79 Grado - Sublime Filosofo
- 80 Grado - Caballero Filosofo
- 81 Grado - Caballero del Vellón Dorado
- 82 Grado - Patriarca de Memphis
- 83 Grado - Caballero de la Estrella
- 84 Grado - Caballero Profeso de la Estrella de Oriente
- 85 Grado - Sublime Caballero de la Estrella
- 86 Grado - Sublime Maestro del Anillo Luminoso
- 87 Grado - Sublime Príncipe de la Masonería
- 88 Grado - Gran Electo de la Sagrada Cortina
- 89 Grado - Verdadero Masón Adepto
- 90 Grado - Sublime Maestro de la Gran Obra:
- Section Four - Sovereign Sanctuary
- 91 Grado - Gran Defensor de la Orden
- 92 Grado - Gran Catequista de la Orden
- 93 Grado - Grande Regulador General de la Orden
- 94 Grado - Gran Administrador de la Orden
- 95 Grado - Gran Conservador General de la Orden
- Several degree names are shortened in order to fit into the space on this page. In addition, there are several alternative rituals for many degrees.
The Rite as it exists today operates in the same spirit as the masonic Metropolitan College in Paris where the degrees of all high degree rites which were present at that time were available to master masons, so that they could make up their own mind as to their value. The Rite does this in order to preserve and use as much of the tradition of high degree masonic rituals as possible.
External Links
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