TheSwedenborg Rite orRite of Swedenborg was a fraternal order modeled onFreemasonry and based upon the teachings ofEmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). It comprised sixDegrees: Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Neophyte, Illuminated Theosophite, Blue Brother, and Red Brother.[1]
It was created inAvignon in 1773 by the Marquis de Thorn. It was initially a political organization, although the political ideology was eventually discarded from the rite.[2] This version of the Swedenborg Rite died out within a decade of its founding.
Starting in the 1870s, the Rite was resurrected as anhermetic organization. This version faded out sometime around 1908.[3] In 1982 a patent of the Swedenborg Rite was transmitted by the English Freemason Desmond Bourke, in his office at the British Museum, to Masonic authorMichele Moramarco, who after revising the rituals by Bourke's permission revived that tradition in Italy under the title of "Antico Rito Noachita" ("Ancient Noachide Rite")
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