{ "item_title" : "The Living Pyramid Volume I", "item_author" : [" James Foster "], "item_description" : "What did the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry set out to teach, and why has it endured for two centuries?The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm is among the most ambitious systems in Freemasonry, a ladder of up to ninety-nine degrees that carries the initiate from the Apprentice's rough stone into chivalry, philosophy, the Hermetic art and the Mysteries of Egypt. It is also among the least understood. Its scales have been expanded, reduced and rebuilt, and its many bodies tell its story in different ways.The Living Pyramid reads the degrees as Albert Pike read those of the Scottish Rite in Morals and Dogma: for their doctrine, their symbolism and their place in the history of religious thought. This first volume opens with a documented history of the Rite, from Naples and Cagliostro through the Bédarride brothers, Marconis, Yarker, Garibaldi, Papus and the twentieth-century successions. It then follows the thirty-three degrees the Rite shares with the Scottish tradition, from the Apprentice to the Sovereign Grand Inspector General: the Craft, the Elect, the Royal Arch, the captivity and return, the Rose+Croix, the Tabernacle and the Brazen Serpent, the Knight of the Sun and the Kadosh.The book is written for members of every Memphis-Misraïm body and for any reader drawn to the Western esoteric tradition. It draws throughout on the Rite's published rituals and on its historians. A concordance of the scales and a full bibliography complete the volume.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/542/9798165423758_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "37.38", "online_price" : "37.38", "our_price" : "37.38", "club_price" : "37.38", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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