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Contents
Mormonism and Freemasonry
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.
Improvement Era, "Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered"
Charles W. Penrose, Improvement Era, (September 1912)Question 17: Was Joseph Smith, Jr., a Mason?
Answer: Joseph Smith the Prophet was a Mason. [1]
"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[2]
Relationship between Freemasonry and temple ceremonies
Jump to Subtopic:
- 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
Joseph Smith's involvement in Freemasonry
Jump to details:
- 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
Jump to details:
Symbolism in Latter-day Saint Temples
Jump to Subtopic:
- 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?
Jump to Subtopic:
- 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
- ↑ Charles W. Penrose, "Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered," Improvement Era 15 no. 11 (September 1912).
- ↑ 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.