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EGYPTIAN FREEMASONRY
OF THE ANCIENT AND PRIMITIVE
RITE OF MEMPHIS-MISRAÏM


 

 

by Galbix Red and Gabriel López de Rojas


The creator of the Egyptian Freemasonry of Egyptian Rite was the Count Alexander of Cagliostro (1749-1796), born in Tunisi. He must not be identified with the mystifier Giuseppe Balsamo (1743-1795), the palermitano recruited by the Jesuits to personify and to throw the disrepute on the true Count of Cagliostro.

Alexander of Cagliostro was initiated to the secrets of the Egyptian Freemasonry by the mysterious Master Altothas in 1776, year of the foundation of the Illuminati Order. And few know that the summit of the Illuminati Order was constituted by six members: four were known (Weishaupt, von Knigge, Goethe, Herder) and two were secrets (Franklin and Cagliostro).

In effects a secret connection existed between the Illuminati Order of Weishaupt and the Egyptian Freemasonry of Cagliostro that was officially founded in 1785, year of the suppression of the Illuminati Order. Besides, Napoleone Bonaparte was initiated by Cagliostro to the Egyptian Freemasonry and the Masonic Rites of Memphis, of Misraïm and of Memphis-Misraïm come down from it.

Between 1810 and 1813, in Naples (Italy), the three brothers Bédarride (Michel, Marc and Joseph) received the Supreme Powers from the Order of Misraïm and they developed the Rite of Misraïm in France. They made it official in Paris in 1814. The Rite was composed of 90 degrees, taken from the Scottish freemasonry, from Martinism and other Masonic currents, and the last four degrees received the name of "Arcana Arcanorum."

In 1815, in Montauban (France), the Mother Lodge of the Rite of Memphis was constituted with the Grand Master Samuel Honis as head, whom followed, in 1816, Gabriel-Mathieu Marconis. In 1838, Jean Etienne Marconis de Nègre, son of this last one, took over the Rite of Memphis. The Rite, for J. E. Marconis de Nègre, was a continuation of the ancient Mysteries practised in the Antiquity, in India and in Egypt. The Constitutions of the Rite said: "... the masonic rite of Memphis is the continuation of the Mysteries of the Antiquity. The Rite taught the first men to pay homage to the divinity... ". The Rite of Memphis reached the 92 and 95 degrees.

In 1881, the Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi reunified the Rites of Memphis and Misraïm and became the Grand Hierophante of both. After the death of Garibaldi, in 1882, the Rites entered in a "dark" period up to when, in 1890, various lodges of both Rites were federated and the Rite of Memphis-Misraïm appeared. In 1900, the Italian Ferdinando Francesco degli Oddi became Head of the Memphis-Misraïm and was replaced, by the English John Yarker, in 1902. The Rite reached the 97 degrees.

In 1902, the German Theodor Reuss established the Sovereign Sanctuary of Memphis-Misraïm in Germany and in 1913, after the death of Yarker, he became the International Head of the Rite. In 1924, T. Reuss passed to Eternal East and the succession was interrupted, except in the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), the neotemplar order founded by Reuss, in 1905, in Germany. In reality, the O.T.O. had included the Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, although in a reduced version, where its principals degrees were incorporated.

In 1909, Theodor Reuss delivered a licence to the famous martinista Gerard Encauss (Papus). The successors of Papus were Charles Detré (Tedé), Jean Bricaud, Constant Chevillon, Charles-Henry Dupont and Robert Ambelain. In 1939, Jean Bricaud passed to the Eternal East and was followed by Chevillon. In 1944, Chevillon was murdered by the French collaborationists of nazional-socialism and was followed by Dupont. And, in 1960, Ambelain succeeded Dupont.

On November 14, 1973, the Italian Francesco Brunelli (1927-1982) was named by Robert Ambelain responsible for the Rite in Italy. On November 22, 1973, Francesco Brunelli (Nebo) - Grand Master of the Martinist Ancient and Traditional Order and of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm - was received with all honors in the Grand Lodge of Italy, to Palazzo Giustiniani. But the activity of the Rite in Italy and in the Grand Lodge of Italy was anecdotal in the seventies.

In 1981, Francesco Brunelli contacted the known Italian initiate Frank G. Ripel to restructure the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm and the situation of the Rite was the following: 99º or International Head of the Egyptian Oriental Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, 98º or Incognito Superior (from the degree VIIº to the XIIIº of the Order of the Rosa Mistica), 97º or Substitute of the International Head, 96º or National Head, 1º-95º or Operative Freemason (from the Iº to the VIº of the Order of the Rosa Mistica). In the renewed Egyptian Oriental Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of which we are about to talk, from 1º to 95º, the 6 Alchemical Operations are found and associated to the degrees 1º-3º, 4º-33º, 34º-42º, 43º-63º, 64º-74º and 75º-95º.

Frank G. Ripel was at the head of the Egyptian Oriental Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm between 1981 and 1999, when he put it in "sleep."

At the end of March 2003, Frank G. Ripel, being Grand Master of the O.C.I. (Order of the Enlightened Knights) had a contact with the Spanish Gabriel López de Rojas, founder and Grand Master of the Illuminati Order, O.H.O. of the Societas O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientalis), 33º degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, maximum degree of a pair of Egyptian Rites. When Gabriel López de Rojas learned that the Egyptian Oriental Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm of Frank G. Ripel was in "sleep", proposed to Ripel "to wake it up again" and he accepted, making it to revive, on May 1, 2003, with the name of Egyptian Freemasonry of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm.

The Egyptian Freemasonry of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraïm is structured in the following form:

99º Grand Hierophante or International Head of the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. and of the O.C.I.:
Frank G. Ripel
99º Grand Hierophante or International Head of the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. ad Honorem:
Licio Gelli
98º Substitute of the International Head of the O.C.I.
Italian language: Galbix Red
98º National Head for Italy of the O.C.I.: Tixian Dark
98º Incognitos Superiors (O.C.I.)
97º Substitute of the International Head of the M.E.A.P.R.M.M.
Italian language: Galbix Red. I.S. (98º O.C.I.)
97º Substitute of the International Head of the M.E.A.P.R.M.M.
English language: Brad Cofield.
96º National Head for Italy: Adolfo Alessandro Maria Polignano
National Head for Bolivia: Ivan Herrera Hernández
National Head for Argentine: Eduardo Daniel Mestre
National Head for Uruguay : Mauro Rodriguez
National Head for El Salvador: Carlos Mauricio López
National Head for Messico: Argenis Zamora de la rosa
National Head for Chile: José Luis Orellana Baeza
National Head for Colombia: Enrique Martínez Reyes
National Head for Peru: Hector Navarro
National Head for Venezuela: Marcos José Represas Pérez
National Head for Ecuador: Victor Izurieta
National Head for the Caribbean: William De Jesus
National Head for Brasil: Samuel Trindade
National Head for Portugal: Fernando D'Eça Leal
National Head for California: Emily Kay Baecker
National Head for New Mexico: Robert Neal Cain Jr.
National Head for Texas: R. Sterling Johnson
National Head for Maryland: Jim C. Gilmer II
National Head for Nebraska: Abel Acen Vidal
National Head for Virginia: Joseph Proctor
National Head for Alabama: Alfredo C. Palacol Jr
National Head for Florida: Moacir Rebostini
National Head for Colorado: Jerry L. Brumley
National Head for Missouri: Jason Novak
National Head for Louisiana: William Harrison
National Head for Washington: Brad Cofield
National Head for Utah: Roger D. Thompson
National Head for Oregon: Marcellius Smith
National Head for Michigan: Gerald Knowles
National Head for Georgia: Javier Cola
National Head for Illinois: Michael Chase
National Head for Canada: Darren Feetham
National Head for Great Britain: Emmanuel Stamatakis
National Head for Australia: George Venkov
National Head for New Zealand: Leonard Stevens
National Head for Germany: Thomas Hill
National Head for Switzerland: Bernardino Sanchez Perez
National Head for France: Marc Vattier
National Head for Greece: Doukas Christos
National Head for Morocco: Jaber Kharchafi
National Head for Egypt: Jesùs Lionel Mondragón Alexis
National Head for Ivory Coast: Khalil Fady Abou
National Head for Gabon: Sylvain Boma Diandza
National Head for Congo: Fernand Mikanga
National Head for Benin: Modeste Ganlaky
National Head for Burkina Faso: Ghazal Ismael
National Head for Nigeria: Calix Ohiaeri
National Head for Senegal: Vianney Dipaumin Onagnelin
National Head for Republic of Serbia: Zoran Martinovic
National Head for Jordan: Jamil M. N. Sultan
National Head for Roumania: Vladimir Radu Sauciuc
National Head for India: Romit Palit
National Head for Philippines: Jose Carlo Macapayag
National Head for Japan: Michael Martin
1º-95º Operative Freemasons.

 

Short Biography on Licio Gelli

In 1980 Licio Gelli, through his constant relationships with the Royal House of Savoia Lucifero Falcone (Minister of the Royal House of Savioa) was honored the Earl title by the King Umberto II (the last King of Italy).

Toward the end of the Seventies the Grand Orient of Italy, appointed Gelli as Venerable Master to direct and give back life to the Masonic Lodge "Propaganda 2" (P2), which was founded in 1895 by Grand Master Lemmi.

In the Eighties the unfounded P2 scandal busted. Subsequently, the Venerable Master was acquitted of the accusations that were brought against him.

In 1996 Commendatore Licio Gelli, for his activity in poetry and writing, proposed candidates from 59 structures - academies, university, Italians and foreigners cultural associations for the Nobel Prize for the Literature.

 

 

Bull of the Gran Hierophante Frank G. Ripel

Expulsion from the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. of Warren Rodgers.


November 28 th 2006

 

Warren Rodgers (National Head for Michigan) is expelled from the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. as execrable individual, braggart and unworthy to be a freemason. To be avoided as the plague. Documentation in possession of the Gran Hierophante that attests the accusation.

Warren Rodgers is a blackmailer and a slanderer. See documentation: Click here

The Gran Hierophante resorts to the "Punitive Stream", as in use for these cases.

 

The Gran Hierophante

Frank G. Ripel

 

Bull of the Gran Hierophante Frank G. Ripel

Expulsion from the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. of Matthew Alexander.


December 1 st 2006

 

Matthew Alexander (Substitute of the International Head for the English language) is expelled from the M.E.A.P.R.M.M. because he is in collusion with that braggart, deceiver and blackmailer of Warren Rodgers. Documentation in possession of the Gran Hierophante that attests the dichiaration.

 

The Gran Hierophante

Frank G. Ripel

 

 


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