Thus Cagliostro gave them the Masonic Light only; he held the first three degrees of English Masonry and the superior degrees of German Masonry, strongly influenced by the Templar tradition. The name Mizraim is just the plural of "Egyptian", the only reminder that this Egyptian Rite which transmitted to them the personality of the Order.
It spread rapidly; to Milan, Genoa, Naples and appeared in France with Michael Bedarride, who had received the magistral powers in 1810 at Naples from the Brother de Lassale.
From 1810 to 1813, the three Bedarride brothers developed the Rite in France with success and, was, as you might say, under the protection of the Scottish Rite. Indeed, the Mizraim Rite has Illustrious names at its head: Count Muraire, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Duke Decazes, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Duke of Leicester, Lieutenant-General Baron Teste, etc. Rapidly, under the White Terror, Mizraim became the Masonic Obedience which transmitted their necessary mastery to the Carbonari, and this Rite had 22 Lodges in Paris, 6 in Lyon, 6 in Metz, 5 in Toulouse, 3 in Bordeaux, 3 in Geneva, 3 in Lausanne and 1 in Cortrary. Violently anti-clerical, anti-royalist, the Restoration police obtained its dissolution.
Acting clandestinely for eighteen years, restored in 1838, re-dissolved in 1841, coming out once more from obscurity in 1848. Mizraim set out towards fusion with the Rite of Memphis in 1881, a fusion under the impulse of Giuseppe GARIBALDI.