. Quoting what Smith told them, they described Smith’s frustration: “Why can’t I get it?” . Except for those four years, his recorded life exemplifies the fusing of a capacity for bold action with teachability. In the Book of Mormon, the brother of Jared is the most prominent person in the account given in the beginning (Chapters 1–6) of the Book of Ether. See also, “Joseph Smith’s Gold Plates,” Utah Christian Tract Society, p. 5. There were also books on these subjects. According to an article by John E. Thompson entitled, “The Facultie of Abrac,” the faculty of Abrac dated to the 17th century and was known in Smith’s time and neighborhood. King Solomon changes the status of his underground cavern from secret to sacred. Cited in Tanner, Magic, 32. . 306.) must stand or fall on the story of Joseph Smith.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. . He walked around three times on the periphery of this last circle, muttering to himself something which I could not understand. Although Smith didn’t say abracadabra, his mother admitted the family practiced this magic incantation: “Let not the reader suppose that . Mormon leaders have suggested that Smith gave all that up after he started his church. As a result, Mormons continue to be deceived, along with many unsuspecting converts, who are not told certain Mormon doctrines up front, but led to believe they are joining another Christian church.(106). First Thessalonians 5:21says one must prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. Mostly, they try to suppress the incriminating evidence. This tract cites Joseph Smith’s History By His Mother, 104-105. To translate the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham, he used the same peep stones used as a money-digger and palm reader. See “Non-gold plates,” The Evangel, November 1994, p. 6. He found them through a brown seer stone (according to Brigham Young and Martin Harris). Mahonri Moriancumer Cahoon: Subject: Murray People: Description: Formal portrait of Mahonri Moriancumer Cahoon. Joseph Smith saw the first _____?, What age was Joseph when Heavenly father and Jesus appeared to him?, Where did Joseph Smith go to pray about what church was true?, Angel _____ appeared to Joseph Smith when he was 24? Another clang is Mahonri Moriancumer, the name of a character in the Book of Ether. No. He felt that further back, there was an original truth, a purer Masonry. Smith, however, chose not to stick with the Masonic Lodge, but start his own. Neibauer published a Kabbalist treatise in a Mormon publication covering the Zohar, a famous text of the Jewish Kabbalah which spoke of sacred sexual unions. The full quote of the angel appearing in Smith’s room, can be found in Bill McKeever’s Answering Mormons’ Questions (Minneapolis, Bethany House, 1991), 96-97. For a picture of the talisman, see Tanner, Magic, 3. Some Mormons have tried to excuse this difficulty by claiming that the Jaredites did not travel in a straight line but in fact zig-zagged. Cited in Tanner, Magic, 34. (77) Brigham Young gave this purpose for the temple endowment: “Your endowment is to receive all those ordinances in the House of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, and gain you eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell.” (Journal of Discourses, 2:31-32.) Cited in Tanner, Magic, 26. Every man and woman must have the certification of Joseph Smith, Junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are.”(101), “[There is] no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. 2. In early 1907, the LDS Church granted Mahonri Young permission to create a life-size sculpture of Joseph Smith, the first president of the LDS Church, using his death mask. However, the deceit of the whole matter was that the ideas gleaned from the ancient mystery cults, including the Kaballah, he passed off as revelation from the Holy Ghost: “Now, I ask all who hear me, why the learned men who are preaching salvation, say that God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing? and the last three letters of Solomon (SoloM-O-N)”,(83) to come up with Mor-mon, which is both the name of his sacred book and the name of its main character. The legend concludes by stating that the treasure will be found by one of Enoch’s Israelitish descendants. One character at a time would appear, and beneath it was the interpretation in English. With what is known about ancient sailing vessels, even large barges would not be very big. The Book of Mormon provided Smith with an outlet for his fascination with Masonic mysteries. If his story was going to cover Lamanite settlements in South America and Nephites in Central America, how was he going to get their sacred records to the state of New York, three thousand miles away, for him to find fifteen hundred years later? d. Joseph claimed they were received from a nameless angel. For other examples, as well as Biblical sources for the names of the books within the Book of Mormon, see Tanner, Mormonism-Shadow or Reality?, 94-95. Even long before he claimed to find the gold plates of the Book of Mormon through his peep stone, he was finding buried treasure and deciphering ancient writings. 1, 1841], 362; Juvenile Instructor, Vol. Knowing, as they do, the facts about Joseph Smith, they realize that if they admit to them, they chance destroying the faith of their members. Cited in Tanner, Magic, 20-21. 1, No. . As Smith learned more about Masonic beliefs, he began to weave them into his buried treasure tale. Joseph did so and gave the boy the name of Mahonri Moriancumer. Therefore, he did not literally translate the plates, but divined their message, supernaturally. (14) The Mormon practice of giving patriarchal blessings is, no doubt, the outgrowth of Smith’s fortune-telling practice. (49) Witnesses say he used a stone to locate the box. “Hebrew poem[s] of which the initial letters of the lines or stanzas formed the alphabet in order. 1. Therefore, out of necessity they have to continue white-washing the image of Joseph Smith and extolling the divine foundation of the church. The plates claimed to be from God. It is not to be understood that the law of Moses will be established again with all its rites and variety of ceremonies; this has never been spoken of by the prophets; but those things which existed prior to Moses’ day, namely, sacrifice, will be continued.”(31), JOSEPH’S BELIEF IN MAGIC MEDALLIONS AND ASTROLOGY, When Smith was killed, a Jupiter Talisman was found on his body. To carry the Jaredites across the ocean, “barges” resembling ancient submarines were constructed under the continual direction of the Lord (2:6,16). Enoch foresees a world-destroying flood. According to magic books, “white animals [were] sacrificed to the good Spirits and black to the evil.”(25), Therefore, Smith procured a black sheep for one occasion, claiming it was the only way to appease the evil spirit of a particular treasure. warlocks and witches,” and added that “to be credulous in such things was to be normal people.”(8), JOSEPH’S USE OF PEEP STONES AND DIVINING RODS, PEEP STONES 1. Most of these ancient ceremonies were taken up with initiates watching live actors in a drama–not much different from today’s temple ceremony. Text books and historians have been arguing the point for centuries, but what is interesting is that another group is completely ignored in this arena of debate. Ether 6:5 states the Jaredite barges were propelled by a furious wind that “did never cease to blow towards the promised land” (vs.8). (13) Historical Magazine, May 1870, p. 306. 1, October 1975, 14-15. First printed in 1584, photographically reprinted in 1971. (The Tanners’ book also contains pictures.) Cited in Tanner, Magic, 29. Many historians believe it was the Italian-born explorer Christopher Columbus who, on August 3, 1492, set sail across the Atlantic and, three months later, landed on an island in the Bahamas he called San Salvador. (63) Elias Boudinot and James Adair, A Star in the West, or an Attempt to Discover the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Smith said the German was the most correct translation because it corresponded closest to the revelations God had given him. Now, jumping from Enoch to the future King Solomon–after the flood–Solomon’s masons, while building the King’s temple on the hill Moriah, come across pieces of the treasure, although not yet the gold plate. Many argue that Joseph Smith was uneducated, a statement promoted by Mormon leaders. If you would like me to send an image I would be happy to. .” (McGavin, Mormonism and Masonry, 11.) (87) According to Dr. Durham. (28) Richard L. Anderson, Brigham Young University Studies, Spring 1970, p. 294. President Joseph Fielding Smith said, “Mormonism . (40), Joseph wasn’t the only one in his family involved in this. (105) The Amboy Journal, June 11, 1879, p. 1. Rather, the individual receiving the token holds his hand out in the attitude of preparing to shake hands. He married Sarah Romney (1836-1909) 22 November 1853 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. (54) To those familiar with Mormon history, the parallels are self-evident(55). (34) The Magus, by Francis Barrett. (68) A typical Masonic Lodge is a room in the shape of a rectangle, having an altar in the center. These were so constructed that when the waves were not running too high, air could be admitted through unstopping the holes which happened to be uppermost” (Journal of Discourses 12:340). Brigham Young taught that full salvation (exaltation in the highest heaven) can only come through acceptance of and final say-so of Joseph Smith, not through the grace of Christ: “No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith. What other aspect of the shrouded teachings and doctrines of these cultic mysteries, fascinated Joseph? was to be able to call upon the celestial intelligences, assigned to the particular talisman [and] to assist one in all endeavors.”(38) By Invoking the names of these inscribed gods, he said, it guaranteed the possessor of “riches and favor, and power, and love and peace . In another order of Masonry, a Knight of Malta is told to “force the first finger into the centre of the [other’s] palm.” (Richardson’s Monitor of Free Masonry, 126.) Learn how your comment data is processed. Enoch predicts that after the flood, an Israelitish descendant will find the treasure. is the best example.” (Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. (Italic, mine.) Sahagun writes of a group of people in “seven” ships who come from the direction of Florida and landed in the port of Panuco, near Tampico, Mexico. In this activity, Joseph and his father worked in conjunction with each other. his occupation, habits and moral character were at variance with the discipline [and] his name would be a disgrace to the church.”(105). This is, of course, contrary to his later story where he said that it was an angel who directed him to the gold plates. The 2006 count of the net increase of members’ “children of record” who were baptized was more than 94,000. 2. . This name was revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith when he was asked to bless a son of Elder Reynolds Cahoon, and is recorded in the Juvenile Instructor vol. He then stuck a row of witch hazel sticks, around the said circles, for the purpose of keeping off the evil spirits. 1, Oct. 1975, 14-15. Cited in Tanner, Magic.) (75) Herman R. Bangerter, The Significance of Ancient Geometric Symbols, January 15, 1940, as quoted in Temples of the Most High (N.B. The Mormon temple ceremony comprises the same. In 1775 and 1816 Elias Boudinot and James Adair brought the idea to the forefront again. . In any such list the name of Mahonri Moriancumer, the brother of Jared, would be prominent. Cited in Tanner, Magic, 30. To the Mormon Money Diggers. According to James Collin Brewster, the Smith family “anointed the mineral rods and seer stones with consecrated oil, and prayed over them in the house of the Lord in Kirtland.”(18) The ritual consisted of putting on temple robes and asking yes or no questions of the mineral rod. There were three other contributing motives. So also were the Lodge meetings of the Mormon Masons. JOSEPH PLAGIARIZES FROM THE MASONIC LEGEND OF ENOCH TO USE IN THE BOOK OF MORMON*, Masonry also played a significant role in the Book of Mormon story. Genealogy profile for Mahonri Moriancumer Bishop. But, this isn’t so. 1. (59) See Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses 7:32-38. The second motive? 2. One must not be gullible but discerning, like the Bereans in Acts 17 who were praised by Paul because they tested everything he said by the Scriptures. His followers in Utah were taught, that there is a sort of divine Masonry among the angels who hold the priesthood, by which they can detect those who do not belong to their order. Enoch is called by God to preserve the knowledge of the treasure. Enoch’s marble pillar is carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics. But I am learned, and know more than all the world put together. Pratt acknowledges that the Jaredites took with them a number of animals that included elephants and cureloms. The use of divining rods and peep stones continued after the Mormon Church was established and was carried into his temple ceremony. My name is Monica and the Lord has, 20 Helps For Mormon Friends and Loved Ones, Christianity and Mormonism; How Mormons Feel about the Body of Christ, False Prophecies of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, First Presidency Messages, Visiting Teaching Messages and Newsroom Announcements. The name Moriancumer does appear in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon, as a place where the people pitched their tents.However, the name Mahonri Moriancumer is found nowhere in the text of the Book of Mormon, but he is consistently referred to as the "Brother of Jared." They no longer believe in divining rods or peep stones, and present day leaders certainly don’t engage in occult practices like animal sacrifice and magic circles.”. (62) Palmyra Reflector, February 28, 1831. Can’t find another piece like it as it shows a large “SUN” Symbol inside the Masonic Square & Compass. According to Reed C. Durham, Jr., Joseph makes it “clear in the letter that the Kingdom of God was thought to be the true masonry which, when ultimately established with a king and a president, would abolish all earthly confusion and evil and usher in the Millennium. While residing in Kirtland Elder Reynolds Cahoon had a son born to him. (16) Joel Tiffany, “Mormonism-No. Why do the Mormons rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Enoch’s treasure is first hidden in his own cavern, and then later transferred to the hill Moriah. These sacrifices as well as every ordinance belonging to the Priesthood, will, when the Temple of the Lord shall be built, and the sons of Levi be purified, be fully restored and attended to in all their powers, ramifications, and blessings. He became convinced that Masonic teachings, handed down from the Hermetic Magi, Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt and the Kabbalah, had been distorted over time. 2, No. When Smith translated the plates they were, at the time, in a location elsewhere–hidden in the woods. 27, No. Laughable; but, in a way, that’s exactly what he did! 2. (56) Homer, “Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry,” 17. ), He particularly borrowed heavily from a Masonic myth called the Legend of Enoch. 3 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Fall 1994): 24. (95) (“Freemasonry adopted portions of the Kabbalah into its third degree, the Royal Arch, and into some of the higher grades.”)96). In a way, Smith’s desire to find God’s original revelation, was a noble endeavor. Cited in Tanner, Magic, 18. (23) This instance was related by William Stafford, contemporary of Smith’s. (52) Historical Magazine, May 1870, pp. Joseph Smith, Sr., placing them in a hat, would receive revelation on buried treasure locations. (86) Walter F. Prince, “Tests for the Authorship of the Book of Mormon,” American Journal of Psychology, XXVIII, July, 1917. Joseph Smith’s Involvement with Magic, Masonry, and the Occult, http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=61803, Joseph Smith’s claim of receiving gold plates from a holy angel, has attracted millions of converts to the Mormon Church, a church which now boasts a membership of nearly thirteen million, and continues to add about a million new members every three years or less.(1). The third motive? If Mormonism is true the New World was discovered, not by an Italian, nor Vikings, but by a group of people known as Jaredites. Instead of translating directly from the alleged plates, he put his face into the darkness of a hat which contained a seer stone, and the translation of what he called “Reformed Egyptian Hieroglyphics” would appear. No doubt “small” was relative to the size of ships known at that time. . See also Tanner, Magic, 2-3. Joseph continued to rely upon these methods when he started his church, incorporating them into his temple ceremony along with rituals from ancient mystery religions. In following this procedure, Smith claimed that “spiritual light would shine”: “A piece of something resembling parchment would appear, and on that appeared the writing. Cited in Tanners, Magic, 26. Thomas Stuart Ferguson and LDS Seventy Milton R. Hunter speculated that the Jaredites came across the Atlantic Ocean. Even allowing that they weren’t solid and deducting some of the weight to allow for spaces between sheets and the hollowed-out engravings, it isn’t possible. His diary admits that he studied with a Jewish convert, Alexander Neibauer who had an extensive library on the Kabbalah. Based upon what he saw in his dream, Adam makes a similar plate of gold and copies the sacred characters on to it. (25) The Greater Key of Solomon, 122. However, they would have to be extremely strong cages to support even the smallest of elephants and mammoths. Bruce R. McConkie, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1956, 1:188.) According to Dr. Durham, the last name, Moriancumer, could easily be “a compound of ‘Moriah,’ the sacred hill where Solomon stored Enoch’s treasure–and ‘Cumorah,’ the sacred hill where the new Enoch [Smith] found his treasure plates.”(85) Cited in Tanner, Magic, 33. (100) If he, as the foundation of their church, is proved false, then all the doctrines of Mormonism must also be false. (42) Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft. Later, it was adopted by Hermetic philosophers as “the sacred emblem of a perpetual divine and uncreated intelligence.”(70) In the Christian context, it was changed to mean the eye of Jehovah. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Himself. 1, October 1975, p. 5. But the issue is not that they don’t practice them anymore. (Parenthetical phrases are part of the quote.) (74) See Owen, Kaballah, 143-145. He also made the statement that killing a lamb in the Temple was necessary to validate the ordination of Willard Richards as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (Emphasis mine.) 2. One day when President Joseph Smith was passing his door he called the Prophet in and asked him to bless and name the baby. The first . (106) See The Mormon Missionaries: An inside look at their real message and methods, by Janis Hutchinson (Kregel Pub.,1995). For more articles on the Standard Works in Mormonism, click here. Why does the Book of Mormon not name the Brother of Jared (later named by Joseph Smith as Mahonri Moriancumer)? . Since Joseph Smith took it from Masonry, here is the Masonic understanding: “Foot to foot (teaches) that we will not hesitate to go on foot and out of our way to aid and succor a needy Brother; knee to knee, that we will ever remember a Brother’s welfare, in all our applications to Deity; breast to breast, that we will ever keep, in our breast, a Brother’s secrets, when communicated to us as such, murder and treason excepted; hand to back, that we will ever be ready to stretch forth our hand to aid and support a falling Brother; cheek to cheek, or mouth to ear, that we will ever whisper good counsel in the ear of a Brother, and in the most tender manner remind him of his faults, and endeavor to aid his reformation . This emblem, used in earlier centuries by Christian Hermetics, later entered Freemasonry. If the foundation is not built upon Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone, it’s false. 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