> the rite of misraim was a continuation of this masonic current. the foundation of misraim was build on the following pillars; romanticism - democracy - judaism - republican - revolutionist. tolerance and freedom of thought were the key-words of misraim. tolerance and freedom of thought, as promoted by the rite, attracted the republicans and the carbonari. the rite of misraim was a rite that wanted to establish a kind of mysticism where the initiate, through kabbalistic operations, can be identified as a god (the divine spark in each of us), a rite which wanted to subvert the bible by denouncing its dogmas, and a rite which strived after the realization of a universal republic through its political activism. > the misraimite is an occultist who seeks direct contact with the divine, through the use of experimental techniques directed at the inner planes - the invisible worlds - kabbalah, [animal] magnetism, dreams.  > "this system to which great antiquity is attributed, is divided into four classes, called : symbolic, philosophic, mystic, and cabalistic . the degrees of instruction were borrowed from scottish rite, martinism, hermetic masonry, and various reforms formerly in force in germany and france and whose text-books are now found only in the archives of connoisseurs. at first postulants could only attain to the 87th degree. the other three, which complete the system, were reserved for the unknown superiors, and even the names of these degrees were hidden from the brothers in the lower grades . thus organised the misraim rite spread, in the second french invasion of the first empire, into the kingdom of italy and naples . . . . it was brought back to france in 1814 and propagated later in belgium, ireland, and switzerland ." (f-t. b. clavel)
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