What is the list of Memphis and Misraim degrees?

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The Ancient and Primitive Rite comprised ninety-five degrees divided into three series, beginning with the three Craft degrees 1. Other historical arrangements of the Memphis system worked ninety-six or ninety-seven degrees 1. Under its reduced system as the Ancient and Primitive Rite, Knight of the Red Eagle was designated the 12th degree, having formerly been the 24th degree in the Rite of Memphis 2.

The full list of titles for all ninety-five degrees is not contained in the available library sources.

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Albert C. Mackey Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences pp. 155-162, 667 Mackey provides the total count of ninety-five degrees for the Ancient and Primitive Rite and notes their division into three series.; Mackey notes historical variants of the Memphis Rite working ninety-six and ninety-seven degrees.
Arthur Edward Waite A New Encyclopædia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature and History 1921 · p. 498 Waite notes the specific renumbering of the Knight of the Red Eagle degree from the 24th of Memphis to the 12th of the Ancient and Primitive Rite.

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