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🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this episode, we dive into the women’s perspective of the endowment ceremony as introduced by Joseph and Hyrum Smith and streamlined by Brigham Young. We rely on exposes published after 1845 when thousands were initiated as the original endowment ceremony was successfully kept under wraps by the Mormon elite. What must it have been like for a woman to go through this mind-bending esoteric ritual culminating in the revelation on the growing practice of polygamy? We can’t possibly put our minds there, but it’s at least worth examining their writings and musing on in the meantime.
Links:
Maria Van Dusen 1849 Endowment expose
https://archive.org/stream/startlingdisclos00vand#page/24/mode/2up
Emeline expose April 1846 Warsaw Signal
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/il/sign1846.htm#021846
1847 original Van Dusen Expose
https://archive.org/stream/dialoguebetweena00vand#page/4/mode/2up
Nick Literski’s Endowment 1845/46
http://www.mormonoutreach.org/temple_endowments/endow1845.htm
Temple Ceremony by Edward Ashment
https://dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V27N03_303.pdf
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0:00.0 | Inasmuch as Eve was the first to eat of the forbidden fruit, |
0:03.5 | if she will covenant that from this time forth she will obey the law of the Lord, |
0:08.8 | and will hearken unto your counsel as you hearken unto mine. |
0:12.4 | And if you will covenant, that from this time forth you will obey the law of Elohim, |
0:18.0 | we will give unto you the law of obedience and sacrifice, and we will provide a |
0:23.6 | Savior for you, whereby you may come back into our presence and with us partake of eternal |
0:30.2 | life and exaltation. |
0:33.7 | Adam, I now covenant to obey the law of the Lord and to hearken to your counsel as you hearken |
0:40.3 | unto Father. |
0:41.3 | Elohim, I now covenant with thee that from this time forth I will obey thy law and keep |
0:48.3 | thy commandments. |
0:49.3 | It is well. |
0:51.3 | This couple represent all of you as if at the altar. |
0:55.0 | You must consider yourselves as if you were respectively, Adam and Eve. |
1:01.0 | We will put each sister under covenant to obey the law of the Lord |
1:06.0 | and to hearken to the counsel of her husband, as her husband harkens unto the counsel of the Father. |
1:13.6 | Sisters, each of you bring your right arm to the square. |
1:18.6 | You and each of you solemnly covenant and promise before God, |
1:24.6 | angels, and these witnesses at this altar, that you will each observe and keep the |
1:30.8 | law of the Lord and hearken to the counsel of your husband as he harkens to the counsel of the |
1:37.4 | father. Each of you bow your head and say yes. |
1:45.8 | That will do. |
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