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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:10:56 EDT
From: UTMB76A@prodigy.com (MRS CAROL J VAN DRIE)
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Subject: Fwd: Masonry/Mormonism 4

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> Date: Saturday, 02-Sep-95 07:35 AM
> 
> From: Carol J. Van Drie        \ PRODIGY:     (UTMB76A)
> To:   Christia/all             \ Internet:   
> (christia@asuvm.inre.asu.edu)
> 
> Subject: Masonry/Mormonism 4
> 
> MASONRY/MORMONIS CONT. PART 4 >>                   
>     17.  Both Mormons and Masons change clothing before     
> going through their rituals.                                
>     MORMONS - `The candidate, being directed to these       
> washing and dressing rooms and having divested himself of   
> all his clothing, awaits his time in the bath...The         
> candidate then retires to the dressing room, where he puts  
> on a shirt and a pair of white pants and white stockings.'  
>     MASONS - `The candidate during the time is divested of  
> all his apparel (shirt excepted) and furnished with a pair  
> of drawers kept in the lodge for the use of candidates.     
> The candidate is then blindfolded, his left foot bare, his  
> right in a slipper, his left breast and arm naked, and a    
> rope called a Cable-tow round his neck...'                  
>     18.  Both Mormons and Masons use an apron.              
>     MORMONS - `Adam (Turning to the audience)-'In your       bundles
> brethren and sisters, you will each find an apron,  
> you will now put it on.'                                    
>     MASONS - `The Master returns to his seat while the      
> Wardens are examining the candidate, and gets a lambskin or 
> white apron, presents it to the candidate, and observes,    
> `Brother, I now present you with a lambskin or white apron. 
>  It is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a Mason...' 
>     [in 19, there is a description by Mormons of the        
> annointing of oil that is very similar to the Mason temple  
> annointing of oil.  20 compares a new name given to the     
> candidate that is much like the Mason part of the           
> ceremony.  In 21, in the Mormon Temple Ceremony, the        
> candidate cannot pass through the veil until he has given   
> certain signs and words, this is also similar to the        
> Mason Royal Arch Degree which is the Mason's veil.]         
>     22.  In the Mormon temple ceremony a man represents      Adam. 
The
> Masons also have a man who personates Adam in    
> the degree of `Knight of the Sun.'                          
>     MORMONS - `Elohim-...`This man who is now being         
> operated upon is Michael...When he awakes he...will be      
> known as Adam!'                                             
>     MASONS - `Thrice Pussant Grand Master, representing     
> Father Adam [remember - Brigham Young, a later Mormon       
> "prophet" taught that Adam was God the Father], is          
> satationed in the east.'                                    
>     23.  In the Mormon temple ceremony a man represents      God.  In
the
> Mason's Royal Arch Degree a man `personates    
> the Diety.'                                                 
>     MORMONS - `When all is quiet, a man dressed in white    
> flannels, representing Elohim, comes from behind the        
> curtain...'                                                 
>     MASONS - `One of the members now personates the Diety,  
> behind the bush, and calls out Moses!  Moses!'              
>     24.  Both the Morons and the Masons consider the square 
> and the compass to be extremely important.  The marks of    
> the square and the compass appear on the Mormon temple      
> garments and on the veil.                                   
>     MORMONS - `We now have the veil explained to us.  We    
> are told that it represents the veil of the temple.  The    
> marks are the same as those on the garments-the compass on  
> the left and the square on the right side.'                 
>     MASONS - `the three great lights in Masonry are the      Holy
Bible,
> Square and Compass...the Square, to square our   actions, and the
Compass
> to keep us in due bounds with all  
> mankind...'                                                 
>     Even Mormon writer, E. Cecil McGavin, is willing to     
> admit that the `square and the compass' appear on Mormon    
> temple clothing: `It is universally known that Mormon       
> temple clothing contain certain marks of the priesthood,    
> including the SQUARE AND THE COMPASS.' (Mormonism and       
> Masonry, page 72)                                           
>     25.  In the Masonic ritual the point of the compass is  
> pressed against the left breast of the candidate.  The      
> Mormon temple garment has the mark of the compass on the    
> left breast.                                                
>     Cont.  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                            

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