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|author=Charles W. Penrose
 
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|title=Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered
 
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'''Question 17''': Was Joseph Smith, Jr., a Mason?<br>
 
'''Answer''': Joseph Smith the Prophet was a Mason. <ref>{{IE|author=Charles W. Penrose|article=Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered|date=September 1912|vol=15|num=11}}</ref>
 
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Mormonism and Freemasonry

Summary: This summary page contains bibliographic references for various electronic and print items that discuss—or are related to—the 'Mormonism and Freemasonry' issue. The materials that are listed here represent a variety of opinions that are held by Latter-day Saints on this topic. They also represent differing levels of review and publication processes and divergent degrees of documentation.


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"It has always been commonly reported, and to a great extent believed, that the mysteries of the Endowment House were only a sort of initiation…of the rites of Masonry; but I need hardly say that this statement when examined by the light of facts, is altogether ungrounded and absurd.”
— Fanny Stenhouse, Nineteenth Century Anti-Mormon Author[1]


Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies


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Mormonism and Freemasonry


Involvement of Latter-day Saint Church leaders in Freemasonry


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Symbolism in Latter-day Saint Temples


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Claims made by critical books, videos and websites related to Mormonism and Freemasonry


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Notes

  1. Mrs. T.B.H. [Fanny] Stenhouse, "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington & Company, 1875 [1874]), 354.