# Swedenborg Rite > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Swedenborg_Rite > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Swedenborg_Rite.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborg_Rite > Source revision: 1303394324 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) [Emanuel Swedenborg](/source/Emanuel_Swedenborg) (1688–1772), the fraternity's namesake Part of a series on Freemasonry Overview Grand Lodge Masonic lodge Consistory Masonic lodge officers Grand Master Prince Hall Freemasonry Regular Masonic jurisdiction Anglo-American Freemasonry Continental Freemasonry Military Lodge History Liberté chérie Masonic manuscripts Masonic bodies Masonic Masonic bodies York Rite Order of Mark Master Masons Holy Royal Arch Royal Arch Masonry Cryptic Masonry Knights Templar Red Cross of Constantine Scottish Rite Knight Kadosh French Rite Societas Rosicruciana Order of Royal and Select Masters Grand College of Rites Swedish Rite Order of Saint Thomas of Acon Royal Order of Scotland Order of Knight Masons Research Lodge Corks Side degrees The Shrine Royal Order of Jesters Tall Cedars of Lebanon The Grotto Masonic groups for women Women and Freemasonry Order of the Amaranth Order of the Eastern Star Prince Hall Order of the Eastern Star Co-Freemasonry Masonic youth organizations DeMolay A.J.E.F. Job's Daughters International Order of the Rainbow for Girls Views on Masonry Anti-Masonry Anti-Masonic Party Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition Masonic conspiracy theories Christian attitudes towards Freemasonry Papal ban of Freemasonry Taxil hoax People and places Masonic Temple James Anderson Prince Hall William Preston Thomas Smith Webb Albert Mackey Albert Pike John the Evangelist John the Baptist William Schaw Elizabeth Aldworth List of Freemasons Lodge Mother Kilwinning Freemasons' Hall, London Mark Masons' Hall, London House of the Temple Solomon's Temple Detroit Masonic Temple List of Masonic buildings Related Masonic ritual and symbolism Great Architect of the Universe Square and Compasses Pigpen cipher Eye of Providence Hiram Abiff Chamber of Reflection List of Masonic Abbreviations Sprig of Acacia Masonic Landmarks Pike's Morals and Dogma Propaganda Due Dermott's Ahiman Rezon Volume of Sacred Law By country Barbados Belgium Canada China Croatia Cuba Denmark France Finland Germany Iceland India Indonesia Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Lebanon Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mexico North Macedonia Philippines Portugal Romania Russia Scotland South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Thailand Turkey Ukraine Venezuela United Kingdom United States v t e Hermetic fraternal order circa 1773-1908 The **Swedenborg Rite** or **Rite of Swedenborg** was a fraternal order modeled on [Freemasonry](/source/Freemasonry) and based upon the teachings of [Emanuel Swedenborg](/source/Emanuel_Swedenborg) (1688–1772). It comprised six [Degrees](/source/Degree_(freemasonry)): Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Neophyte, Illuminated Theosophite, Blue Brother, and Red Brother.[1] It was created in [Avignon](/source/Avignon) 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 an [hermetic](/source/Hermeticism) 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 author [Michele Moramarco](/source/Michele_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") ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-EoF2_1-0)** Albert Gallatin Mackey and H. L. Haywood, *Encyclopedia of Freemasonry Vol. 2*, p. 997 reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2003 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7661-4720-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7661-4720-7) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Row_2-0)** Augustus Row (1868). "Illuminati of Avignon or Swedenborg Rite". *Masonic Biography and Dictionary*. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. p. 139. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** R. A. Gilbert (1995-09-14). ["Chaos Out of Order: The Rise and Fall of the Swedenborgian Rite"](http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/aqc/swedenborg.html). Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon A.F. & A. M. ## Further reading - William G. Peacher (1992). ["Swedenborg, The Man, The Religion and The Rite"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080705015658/http://www.mainemason.org/mlr/swedenborg1.htm). Maine Lodge of Research, AF&AM. Archived from [the original](http://www.mainemason.org/mlr/swedenborg1.htm) on 2008-07-05. - Samuel Beswick (1870). *Swedenborg Rite and the Great Masonic Leaders of the Eighteenth Century* (republished 1994 ed.). New York: Kessinger Publishing. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781564594242](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781564594242). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date)) - Michele Moramarco (1989). *Nuova Enciclopedia Massonica*. 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