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Mormonism and Freemasonry
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Contents
- 1 Mormonism and Freemasonry
- 2 Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies
- 3 Mormonism and Freemasonry
- 4 Involvement of Latter-day Saint Church leaders in Freemasonry
- 5 Symbolism in Latter-day Saint Temples
- 6 Claims made by critical books, videos and websites related to Mormonism and Freemasonry
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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- Relationship between the Endowment and Freemasonry
- The use of ritual in gospel ordinances
- The ordinance versus the ritual used to present the ordinance
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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- Question: Does the Nauvoo Temple display symbols that are either occult or Masonic?
- Question: Isn't the inverted five-pointed star on some temples really a symbol of evil?
- Question: Why is the Masonic symbol of the "All Seeing Eye" present on the Salt Lake Temple?
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- Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith or Search for the Truth DVD
- Response to claims made on MormonThink page "The Temple"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"
Notes
- ↑ 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.