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Pergunta: De onde os Santos dos Últimos Dias do século XIX acreditam que a Maçonaria veio?
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Pergunta: De onde os Santos dos Últimos Dias do século XIX acreditam que a Maçonaria veio?
It was a common 19th century belief of both Mormons and Masons that Masonry had it origins in the Temple of Solomon
Os Santos da era de Joseph Smith aceitavam a crença, comum à época, que a Maçonaria teria surgido do Templo de Salomão. Assim, Brigham Young e Heber C. Kimball entendiam que a Maçonaria seria uma forma corrompida de um rito puro do templo antigo. [1] Um autor mais tarde escreveu que a Maçonaria, como uma "instituição originada há muitos séculos, é apenas um sacerdócio corrompido, roubado dos Templos do Altíssimo." [2]
It was a common 19th century belief of both Mormons and Masons that Masonry had it origins in the Temple of Solomon. A few Masons cling to this view even today. An opinion not, it turns out, supported by the historical evidence but it was only an opinion. When studying the relationship between Mormonism and the fraternal order known as Freemasonry it is important to acknowledge and understand the perspective expressed by nineteenth century Latter-day Saints. Below are seven examples of what some Mormons thought about where the rites and teachings of the Masons came from (some of these people were also Masons). Notice that some of these quotes purport to reflect the view of the Prophet Joseph Smith on this subject.
Visão dos Primeiros Santos
Joseph Fielding escreveu durante o período de Nauvoo:
Muitos se uniram à instituição maçônica. Isso parece ter sido um trampolim ou preparação para algo mais, a verdadeira origem da Maçonaria. Isto eu também já vi, e me alegro neste fato... tenho prova suficiente de que Joseph não caiu. Eu o vi após ter dado, como disse antes, a origem da Maçonaria.[3]
Heber C. Kimball escreveu acerca da investidura:
Temos recebido algumas coisas preciosas, por meio do Profeta, sobre o sacerdócio, que causaria alegria a nossas almas. Não lhes posso dar em papel, pois não devem ser escritas, portanto vocês devem vir e recebê-las por si mesmos... Há uma semelhança do sacerdócio na Maçonaria. Irmão Joseph diz que a Maçonaria tem suas origens no sacerdócio, mas tornou-se adulterada. Entretanto, muitas coisas são perfeitas. [4]
Portanto, para os contemporâneos de Joseph, havia muito mais na investidura do templo SUD do que uma Maçonaria requentada. Nenhum dos amigos de Joseph reclamou que ele houvesse simplesmente adaptado o ritual maçônico à seus próprios interesses. Em vez disso, eles estavam cientes dos elementos rituais comuns, mas compreendiam que Joseph havia restaurado algo que era tanto ritualmente como teologicamente antigo, e dado por Deus.
Early Church leaders believed that Freemasonry was an "apostate" form of the Endowment
- Willard Richards (16 March 1842): “Masonry had its origin in the Priesthood. A hint to the wise is sufficient.” [5]
- Heber C. Kimball (17 June 1842): “There is a similarity of priesthood in Masonry. Brother Joseph [Smith] says Masonry was taken from priesthood.” [6]
- Benjamin F. Johnson (1843): Joseph Smith “told me Freemasonry, as at present, was the apostate endowments, as sectarian religion was the apostate religion.” [7]
- Joseph Fielding (December 1843): The LDS temple ordinances are “the true origin of Masonry.” [8]
- Saints in Salt Lake City (1849–50): “Masonry was originally of the church, and one of its favored institutions, to advance the members in their spiritual functions. It had become perverted from its designs.” [9]
- Heber C. Kimball (9 November 1858): “The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy. . . . They have now and then a thing that is correct, but we have the real thing.” [10]
- Church Authorities (1842–1873): “The Mormon leaders have always asserted that Free-Masonry was a . . . degenerate representation of the order of the true priesthood.” [11]
Notas
- ↑ Ver nota de rodapé 30, Matthew B. Brown, "Of Your Own Selves Shall Men Arise, Review of The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship by David John Buerger," FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): 97–131. off-site PDF link
- ↑ H. Belnap, "A Mysterious Preacher," The Instructor 21 no. ? (15 March 1886), 91.; cited in Matthew B. Brown, "Of Your Own Selves Shall Men Arise, Review of The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship by David John Buerger," FARMS Review of Books 10/1 (1998): 97–131. off-site PDF link
- ↑ Andrew F. Ehat, "'They Might Have Known That He Was Not a Fallen Prophet'—The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding," Brigham Young University Studies 19 no. 2 (1979), 145, 147, spelling and punctuation standardized.
- ↑ Heber C. Kimball to Parley P. Pratt, 17 June 1842, Parley P. Pratt Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, spelling and punctuation standardized.
- ↑ Letter, 7–25 March 1842, Willard Richards to Levi Richards, published in Joseph Grant Stevenson, ed., Richards Family History (Provo, UT: Stevenson’s Genealogical Center, 1991), 3:90.
- ↑ Stanley B. Kimball, Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 85.
- ↑ Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life’s Review (Heber City, UT: Archive Publishers, 2001), 113.
- ↑ Brigham Young University Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, Winter 1979, 145; hereafter cited as BYUS.
- ↑ John W. Gunnison, The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake (Philadelphia: Lippincott and Company, 1856), 59.
- ↑ BYUS, vol. 15, no. 4, Summer 1975, 458.
- ↑ Thomas B. H. Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 698.