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{{Epigraph|"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.” | {{Epigraph|"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<ref>{{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All/Full title|pages=354}}</ref>}} | :::— Fanny Stenhouse, Nineteenth Century Anti-Mormon Author<ref>{{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All/Full title|pages=354}}</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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- Relationship between the Endowment and Freemasonry
- The use of ritual in gospel ordinances
- The ordinance versus the ritual used to present the ordinance
- REDIRECT Book of Mormon/Freemasonry
Joseph Smith's involvement in Freemasonry
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- Question: Were Joseph Smith's final words, "O Lord, my God!" a cry for help or mercy from Freemasons in the mob at the Carthage jail?
- Improvement Era, "Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered"
- Reed C. Durham letter issued after his 1974 talk “Is There No Help for the Widow’s Son?”
Brigham Young's involvement 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.