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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:10:44 EDT
From: UTMB76A@prodigy.com (MRS CAROL J VAN DRIE)
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> Date: Saturday, 02-Sep-95 07:34 AM
> 
> From: Carol J. Van Drie        \ PRODIGY:     (UTMB76A)
> To:   Christia/all             \ Internet:   
> (christia@asuvm.inre.asu.edu)
> 
> Subject: Masonry/Mormonism 3
> 
> MORMONISM/MASONRY CONT. PART 3                               
>     Number 10 continued:                                    
>     MASONS - `I...most solemnly and sincerely promise and   
> swear, in addition to my former obligations, that I will    
> not give the degree of a Master Mason to any of an inferior 
> degree, nor to any other being jin the known                
> world...binding myself under no less penalty than to have   
> my body severed in two in the midst, and divided to the     
> north and sough, my bowels burnt to ashes...                
>     11.  The sign of the penalty is similar in both cases,  
> (The description of this sign which appears in Temple       
> Mormonism is not completely accurate; therefore, we are     
> using the account that appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune.   
> The reader can see that this is the way the sign is given   
> today (see page 470 of this book) ["this book" refers       
> to "Evolution of the Mormon Temple Ceremony; 1842-1990 by   
> Tanner.  An address and price for this book will be         
> included at the end of this particular issue) - also -      
> these differences in the Mormon temple ceremony will be     
> discussed later].                                           
>    MORMONS - "In this, the left hand is placed palm upright  directly
in
> front of the body, there being a right angle     formed at the elbow;
the
> right hand, palm down, is placed    under the elbow of the left; then
> drawn sharply across the   bowels, and both hands are dropped at the
> side.' (Salt Lake 
> Tribune, Feb. 12, 1906).                                    
>     MASONS - `The Penal Sign is given by putting the right   hand to
the
> left side of the bowels, the hand open, with     the thumb next to
the
> belly, and drawing it across the       belly, and letting it fall;
this is
> done tolerably quick.    This alludes to the penalty of the
obligation:
> `Having my   
> body severed in twain,' etc.'                               
>     12. In both cases a `name' is used.                     
>     MORMONS - `The Name of this token is the Son, meaning   
> the Son of God.'                                            
>     MASONS - `...the word or name is Tubal Cain.'           
>     13.  The conversation at the `veil' in the temple       
> ceremony is very similar to that of the `Fellow Craft       
> Mason' when he is questioned concerning the `grip.'         
>     MORMONS - `Lord-What is this?'                          
>     `Endowee-the second token of the Melchizedek            
> Priesthood-The Patriarchal Grip or Sure Sign of the Nail.'  
>     `Lord-' Has it a name?'                                 
>     `Endowee-' It has.'                                     
>     `Lord-' Will you give it to me?'                        
>     `Endowee-' I can not for I have not yet received it.'   
>     MASONS - `...What is this?'                             
>     `Ans-' A grip.'                                         
>     `A grip of what?'                                       
>     `Ans.' The grip of a Fellow Craft Mason.'               
>     `Has it a name?'                                        
>     `Ans.' It has.'                                         
>     `Will you give it to me?'                               
>     `Ans.' I did not so receive it, neither can I so impart 
> it.?'                                                       
>                                                             
> [Here, in the interest of time, I will skip to other        
> similarities.  What follows number 13 in # 14 & 15 , is the 
> similarities between the grips known in Mormonism as "The   
> Sign of the Nail." and the Mormonism vow of chastity and    
> the similarities between it and Masonry vows.  In interest  
> of space and time, I will now skip to number 16.]           
>     16.  The `Oath of Vnegence which used to be used in      the
Mormon
> Temple ceremony resembles an oath in one of the  
> higher degrees of Masonry.                                  
>     MORMONS - `You and each of you do solemly promise and   
> vow that you will pray, never cease to pray, and never      
> cease to importune high heaven to avenge the blood of the   
> prophets...'                                                
>     MASONS - `We promise and swear, by the living God,       always
> supreme, to revenge the death of our ancestor...'    
>     Cont.  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                                 
> 
> 

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