Category: Freemasonry
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Masonry and the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony (excerpt)
Although an LDS essay on the relationship between Freemasonry and the Mormon temple ceremony acknowledges some similarities, it barely scratches the surface.
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Similarities Between the Freemasonry of the 1830s and the Mormon Endowment (pre-1940)
By Richard Packham The following is excerpted with permission from the original page at: http://packham.n4m.org/mason-endow.htm [Note]: The list of similarities below is given in no particular order, since the order of presentation in both ceremonies differs slightly. The information on 19th century Masonry is based on William Morgan’s Illustrations of Freemasonry, 1827. click to enlarge…
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Masonic Symbols and the Salt Lake Temple
Many of the symbols adorning LDS temples derive from Free Masonry, which Joseph Smith was involved in and affected by.
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Ritualistic Child Abuse and the Mormon Church
Mormon General Authority Warns That a Satanic Conspiracy May Be Functioning in the Church By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On July 2, 1991 we were presented with a copy of a very sensational memo purported to have been written by a General Authority of the Mormon Church. This memo was authored by Glenn L. Pace,…
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Current Mormon Temple Ceremony Now Available
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner As we were working on our new book, Evolution of the Mormon Temple Ceremony: 1842-1990, we had a very unexpected thing happen: we were offered a transcript and a tape of the new 1990 revision of the “endowment ceremony.” We, therefore, decided to publish it in our new book together…
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Temple Ritual Altered
Mormon Leaders Delete Some of the “Most Sacred” Parts of Ceremony By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In response to Fawn M. Brodie’s book, No Man Knows My History, the noted Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley declared: Yet of all churches in the world only this one has not found it necessary to readjust any part of…
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Secret Temple Ceremony
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following statement is recorded in Joseph Smith’s History under the date of March 15, 1842: “In the evening I received the First Degree in Free Masonry in the Nauvoo Lodge, assembled in my general business office” (History of the Church, vol. 4, page 551). The next day Joseph Smith…
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Temple Ceremonies
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In past issues of the Messenger we have shown that the anti-Negro doctrine comes from the Book of Abraham, and that the translation of the papyri by Egyptologists has destroyed the basis of this doctrine. The translation of the papyri may have other serious effects upon the doctrines of the…