So, I have exchanged some words with some DoC folks over our current Temple endowments and its "perverse" nature. All of which I do not support.
The general belief (as I understand it) is that they think that our current incarnation of the Endowment is perverted and filled with Free-Masonry. We have had an uncomfortable relationship with the Free Masons going back to the Nauvoo days. Because FM was co-opted by the esoterics in the 1870's (Aliester Crowley and company). As with anything, the devil took something that goes back to those who built the Solomonic Temple and perverted it - much as the symbol of the rainbow has been taken by the perverts and perverted and co-opted for their twisted use. We experienced the same thing with almost every other gospel symbol including the sickos taking the innocence of children in a mirror of the temple setting. Read up on those LDS who have endured MK Ultra experimentation. Instead of just leaving us alone, they have to shit upon everything that is sacred including attempting to co-opt and shit upon the sacred union of marriage.
If I were an impartial godless minion, I would conclude that there might be something to the restored gospel simply based on the attacks against it by those within the "Christian" world and by virtually every other creed out there other than Hinduism and Buddhism.... Study what your enemies are attacking to know where they sense the greatest threat, right?!?
So, for those who constantly attack everything that Brigham Young did (post 1834), they have to ask themselves whether they honor the works of Joseph during ALL of his days or just the first few years of his ministry. Was he a fallen prophet in the latter years? Was George Washington (a high order Mason) one of those that was also deceived by Masonry (if it was always evil)? Do most of the Founding Fathers also fall into that category, all the while concocting the Great Experiment - the greatest movement of light and goodness to hit the earth? How do you section that corpse? How do you divide the cancer from the healthy flesh?
I have stood upon the steps of the Masonic Lodge in Nauvoo and preached hell-fire and damnation to a few "missionaries" from Texas who said we were out of the way for our beliefs (during the Nauvoo open house) and told them that their only salvation was to repent and actually seek the things taught within the walls of the temple that they were railing against. In the end (after a crowd of about 50 people had congregated around the spectacle), their handler came and removed them because they were getting their arses handed to them. I was not happy by their presence and spreading partial truths (salacious details about Joseph having sexual relations with 14 year old women instead of the accurate fact that he was sealed to this gal and many other women - when he in fact had no children by them in a day when Emma could get pregnant pretty much just by looking at Joseph). In that lodge, Joseph ascended up the stairs of Masonry. He MUST have approved of it - because he was there.
Once you throw one under the bus, you kind of have to consider it all while you live under the umbrella of enlightenment created by those "evil people".... It is a conundrum that every "under the bus thrower" must ask themselves as they arrogantly throw people of a higher paygrade under the bus. It takes a particular kind of arrogance to do so. THIS is pride. This is a form of mockery being hurled from the Great and Spacious Building. This is illogical unless it is all looked at in the same, unfiltered light.
If you decide you must throw one thing under the bus, where does it end? If you throw the temple endowment out, do you throw the rest of Joseph's teachings out? Or just a bit of it? Does it finally end in Jesus? Does it finally end in God? I have seen the godless shrink down until they are almost nothing (spiritually, at least) because they have decided they were more wise than the wisdom of God. Many that I have seen, have been made an example for others to avoid like so many lepers clamoring from the curb at the passers-by. How then shall I assess this? By the fruits - and none of them look to be too good.
While highly imperfect, I would rather keep company with the Saints who are striving (while possibly even blindly and even following some or many blind guides) than to venture into the mists of darkness alone and Comforter-less.... It is so hard to witness the spiritual carnage and wreckage.
So this is my word of warning to those who claim to know more. When does the arrogance stop? Where does it stop? Likely like that of Martin Harris and others who came crawling back after a thorough schooling by the Master who will let us kick against the pricks in order that we might learn all things according to our Agency and according to buffetings of the evil one.
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