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| | Endowment (Mormonism) - definition of Endowment (Mormonism) in Encyclopedia |
 | | Today, the Endowment is practiced mainly by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its offshoots; for many other sects of Mormonism, such as the Community of Christ, the ceremony is of historical interest only. | | | The endowment as practiced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | | | As part of the Endowment ceremony, the ordinance of washing and anointing symbolizes the ritual cleansing of priests that took place at Israel's Tabernacle, the temple of Solomon, and later temples in Jerusalem (See Exodus 28:40-42, Exodus 29:4-9, 20-21 29-30, 30:18-21). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Endowment_(Mormonism)
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| | The Endowment Ceremony of the Mormon Church is a ritual. | | | Mormonism or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and written with a lowercase “d” in day, is a creature of its times. | | | Birth of the Mormon Church Creed of Faith. |
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http://www.masonicbuilders.org/Article_MormonMason.htm
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| | Mormon Temples |
| | The mormon temple is the primal central holy place dedicated to the worship of God and the perfecting of his covenant people. | | | Once a mormon temple is dedicated, ceremonies in the temple are only for members of the Church who have a current identification card, called a temple recommend. | | | In the temple faithful members of the mormon church may enter into covenants with the Lord. |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/temples
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| | Mormonism - Theopedia |
| | That is because the Mormon identity, or "glue", is primarily the culture and not doctrine or theology. | | | Mormonism, also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a religion with membership of 12,275,822 as of December 31, 2004, with 6.7 million residing outside the United States. | | | Among other things, Mormons deny the unique nature of God that makes him distinctly worthy of worship, the design of salvation by grace through faith apart from works, and the purpose of the universe (to glorify the one God). |
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http://www.theopedia.com/Mormonism
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| | LDS Endowment |
| | The central metaphor of the endowment is not building the temple, but rather officiating in the temple as priests and priestesses, kings and queens, to God. | | | The endowment is more firmly grounded in scriptural narrative than Masonry is. While Masonry refers to the building of Solomon's temple, as described in the Bible, the ritual drama that forms the heart of the Master Mason degree (the murder of Hiram Abiff) is legendary, not biblical. | | | There is a significant difference, however: while membership in the restored church was exclusive (one could not be Mormon and Methodist simultaneously, for instance), the first generation of endowed Latter-day Saints did not agree that receiving the endowment precluded their continuing to participate in Masonry. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~ldsendowment/masonry.html
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| | LDS Temple Endowment Homepage |
| | Prior to receiving the endowment one must be baptized, ordained a member of the LDS Church, receive the Melchizedek Priesthood (if male), and the "Initiatory Ordinances" of the temple. | | | Mormons believe that the spirits of the dead have the same personalities and tendencies as when they were living. | | | the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormon Church). |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/veilworker/endowment.shtml
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| | The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, which was approved for publication by the Church leadership, also reveals that there is a symbolic "prayer circle" associated with the Endowment, which, along with the rest of the ceremony "precedes the symbolic entrance into the celestial world and the presence of God." | | | In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God. | | | The endowment and the temple work as revealed by the Lord to the Prophet Joseph Smith fall clearly into four distinct parts: The preparatory ordinances; the giving of instruction by lectures and representations; covenants; and, finally, tests of knowledge. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2671/ECLDSEn.html
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| | Was Masonry Derived from Mormonism? - SHIELDS |
| | Freemasonry was the apostate endowment, as sectarian religion was the apostate religion. | | | This of course leaves the impression that these specific aspects of Mormonism owe their existence solely to Freemasonry, and that they had no Christian precedents, when in fact, as we shall show, Freemasonry and Mormonism had a common origin in the early Church. | | | Indeed, most recent scholars are content to point out superficial resemblances between the Mormon Endowment and the rites of Free-masonry, while entirely ignoring the fact that the Endowment far more closely resembles the ancient rites of the Church than it does Freemasonry, or than Freemasonry resembles the ancient rites of the Church. |
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http://shields-research.org/General/Masonry.html
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Mormon Temple Ritual Changes |
| | Mormons believe that their 42 temples world-wide represent a "restoration" of the practices of Biblical times. | | | While the press have interviewed some Mormons who are greeting the revisions with joy, Watchman Fellowship has received several reports of other Mormons who are not at all happy with the changes. | | | The latter involved a Mormon temple workers representing Elohim [God the Father] embracing participants through openings in the temple vail. |
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http://www.watchman.org/lds/changeld.htm
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| | øBook Review |
| | Today’s Mormon missionaries go to the doors of the world with a message that “we are Christians” and “we believe in the Bible.” In reality, they hold the Bible as an inferior work to the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and current church leadership. | | | He, according to Mormonism, is married to at least one goddess wife in heaven, referred to as “Mother god” in Mormonism. | | | He recounts how men in Mormonism can become gods and how some Mormons referenced Brigham Young as “their god.” Mere men were viewed as gods in the flesh [46]. |
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http://www.utahgospelmission.org/Docs/Mormonism/Secret.htm
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| | How does one explain similarities between Masonic and temple ritual? |
| | The ritual is not the endowment, but how the endowment is taught--in much the same way that the Catholic Mass is not Holy Communion but how Holy Communion is given to the congregation. | | | Indeed, the Rigdonite branch (a splinter group from early Mormonism that followed the leadership of Sidney Rigdon) continues to practice only the portions of the endowment which were given in Kirtland. | | | That said, the endowment's teachings, which are the real heart of the endowment are uniquely restorationist in nature. |
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http://www.fairlds.org/Misc/Similarities_between_Masonic_and_Mormon_Temple_Ritual.html
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| | INVESTIGATING MORMONISM |
| | The role of the Mormon woman is to be a wife and mother and to obey and honor her priest husband (or father). | | | Although Mormons claim that God is guiding the LDS church through its president (who has the title "prophet, seer and revelator"), the successive "prophets" have repeatedly either led the church into undertakings that were dismal failures or failed to see approaching disaster. | | | Mormonism began in 1820 when a teen-aged boy in western New York named Joseph Smith was spurred by a Christian revival where he lived to pray to God for guidance as to which church was true. |
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| | Gospel Link |
| | After receiving his or her personal Endowment, a Church member is encouraged to return often to re-experience the same ordinances on behalf of persons who have died without receiving them. | | | Performing ordinances and seeking the will of the Lord in the temple are a sacred and meaningful form of worship in Latter-day Saint religious life. | | | In the stillness of the Lord´s house, those who yearn to hear the word of the Father and to be heard by him pray silently or join in solemn supplications on behalf of the sick and afflicted and those seeking inspiration and guidance (cf. |
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http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/emmain.asp?number=187
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| | Mormon Endowment and Masonry |
| | Masons deliberately skirt religious issues while religion and salvation are the heart of the Mormon endowment. | | | Therefore, what similarities may exist between Freemasonry and Mormonism seem more appropriately to be regarded as superficial, whereas the ancient occult mysteries and the Mormon endowment manifest both philosophical and structural kinship. | | | If you are a Mormon who has not been through the LDS temple some of the temple rites are disclosed, likewise for Masons. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/masendow.htm
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| | MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM |
| | The endowment is an initiation into the highest order of the priesthoods of the church. | | | This enables them to enter any temple for their own personal endowment or to go through the ceremony in behalf of a deceased individual. | | | There is no secret as to the content of the endowment ceremony, it is part of public knowledge. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~research/central/temple4a.htm
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| | Mormon Temple Endowment - 1931 Version |
| | The Mormon 1931 Temple Endowment Ceremonies Forward The Temple ritual as it is here given, while true to the spirit, action and phrasing of the Endowment Service, is of course a condensation as the service is at least three hours long. | | | One of the Mormon thrill masters calls it "an ecstasy of delicate and luxurious color." The endowees fill their eyes with its splendor, preen their feathers before its great mirrors, or rest from the excitement of their hours of initiation on its richly furnished chairs and lounges. | | | A prayer of this type is used in the Prayer Circles of the priesthood. |
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http://packham.n4m.org/endow31.htm
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| | The Mormon Curtain - MORMON TEMPLES |
| | Not only was the endowment far removed from the New Testament Jesus Christ, it didn't even have anything to do with what Jesus taught the people in the Book of Mormon either. | | | Mormons get more Jesus Christ out of a 15-second canned sacrament blessing than they do in the two-hour temple endowment ceremony. | | | It was not until I left Mormonism, a few years ago, that I finally found out what I had done, and the meaning of the covenants, where they came from, and that we all had commited our lives to the Mormon Church and to Celestial Marriage which is plurity of wives! |
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http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_temples.html
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| | The Watcher: New Covenant Ministries for Mormons - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Joseph Smith - Nephilim |
| | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is commonly known by the public as the "Mormon Church" or colloquially as the "LDS Church", and is one of the fastest growing modern religions of our time. | | | Regarded by Mormons as the "one and only true church upon the face of the earth" and by anti-Mormons as a deliberate fraud by its founder, Joseph Smith, the debate as to which, if either, truth claim is the correct one has tended to generate more smoke than fire. | | | His long journey through Mormonism took him through membership in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the "RLDS", or "Saints Church" - renamed the "Community of Christ" on 6 April 2001) and led him to an in depth study of early Mormonism and almost every faction of the Restation Movement. |
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| | Stories of Others Who Have Left Mormonism |
| | I started doing some research into the temple endowment and the Book of Abraham--my two biggest problems with the Mormon church at the time. | | | Not only was there nothing spiritual about the experience, the way the endowment is presented smells of cultism. | | | I don't want this brief history of myself to sound like I believe the Mormon church is completely 'evil' or somehow worse than other religious institutions. |
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| | A Close Look at Mormonism |
| | Many Mormons are completely unaware of the Masonic similarities to the LDS Endowment. | | | Joseph Smith and the other LDS Church leaders maintained a public denial of polygamy while practicing it privately. | | | In LDS Sunday School most will hear about the persecution of the Mormons in great detail. |
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http://mormonismi.info/jamesdavid
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| | Helping Mormons Reach Perfection |
| | Helping Mormons Reach Perfection is making these materials available in our efforts to advance the truth and understanding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their belief system and history. | | | o help Mormons, who are spiritually dead, become spiritually alive in and through Jesus Christ alone. | | | o help them understand the difference between "Mormon Christianity" and Biblical Christianity. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org
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| | Endowment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Endowment (Mormonism); a special gift of heavenly priesthood power, connected with the construction and use of the Mormon temple. | | | Endowment can also be a term used for reclaimed land | | | Endowment policy; a life assurance policy designed to build a capital sum at a pre-determined date. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment
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| | endowment - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "endowment" is defined. | | | We found 34 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word endowment: | | | Example: "His generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time" |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=endowment&ls=a
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