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It is generally believed in the Masonic world that t^o brothers Mark and Michael Bedarride, who were the chiefs of this rite, also were its inventors ; but it has been' re- cently discovered that they were but its propagators.
Commencing by stating that this rite is composed of an aggregation of monstrous legends, stolen from all the rites, including those taken from the Scottish, Martinist, and Hermitic Rites, we will add that after the sixty-seventh degree, it runs but upon wheels supplied by Bible subjects; and that so purely is it Israelitish in its bearings, that it would Avith more correctness be called the " Jewish" than the " Egyptian Eite." "We also find that this collection of degrees is divided into four series, in manner similar with the rite called Egyptian, created by Joseph Balsamo, surnamed Cagliostro, ' which had been professed by the mother lodge " "Wisdom Triumphant," founded by him at Lyons, in 1782. This Egyptian Rite ^ had but an ephem- eral existence ; and it is probable enough that some of Cagliostro's rituals have served to complete the deplorable work of the Rite of Misraim, whose author was the brother Lechangeur of Milan, as we shall proceed to demonstrate.
A Grand Orient of Italy had been founded at Milan
' This extraordinary man, born at Palermo in 1743, acquired a celeb- rity rarely attained by impostors. Arrested at Eome on the 25th Decem- ber, 1789, he was condemned to death by the Holy Office on the 21st March, 1791 ; hut Pius VI commuted his punishment to perpetual im- prisonment in the castle of St. Angelo, where he'died.
" Cagliostro, in a voyage that he made to London, bought a manu- script which belonged to a man named G. Coston, in which he found the plan of a Masonry founded upon a system which was part magical,