Mormon Occult Secrets EXPOSED: Heretic, Gnosticism & the Temple Mystery w/ Ryan Springer!

Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt

Isaac Weishaupt

Science, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we are joined by a special guest- a friend of mine named Ryan Springer who's studied the esoteric side of LDS Mormonism and he's here to explain how it fits into the film Heretic! We'll discuss his soon-to-be-published article on the subject which goes into topics we'll discuss on the show today: Ryan's journey from LDS to the Occult and back, Heretic themes of Western Esotericism, Gnosticism and Joseph Smith's transformative journey embedded into the LDS Temple Endowment Ceremonies. We'll discuss Sacred Spaces, human power structures, hidden knowledge, Veils, Divine Feminine, Heretic's ANTI-Endowment Ceremony with comparisons to Freemasonry, Rosicrucians, Aleister Crowley's Thelema, Magic Underwear, Hecate and more!I HIGHLY recommend you catch the video version of this episode with Ryan's presentation that I'll throw up on my video free feeds the same day as the rest of the free feeds get the audio! Here's where you can find my free feed video versions of the podcast (*subscribe to your favorite one!):

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0:00.0	What if the rituals inside Mormon temples were hiding ancient esoteric secrets?
0:04.9	On today's episode of occult symbolism and pop culture, we're diving into the wild overlap
0:08.1	between LDS traditions and the dark symbolism and the film Heretic.
0:11.8	I'm joined by Ryan Springer, a researcher, with deep roots into Mormonism and the occult,
0:16.8	and we're going to unpack Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Sacred Spaces, and even Alistair Crowley.
0:21.3	You won't believe what the Magic Underware might actually represent.
0:23.8	Stay tuned.
0:30.2	That's right. We got a special guest today.
0:32.2	One of many, one of many special guests that we bring on to this show,
0:35.7	and he's got the background to justify all of the interests that we're going to discuss today.
0:43.3	It's going to be packed full of information you're going to love.
0:45.4	We're going to talk about Ryan's journey, going from LDS Mormon to the occult, and then back.
0:50.4	Themes of the Western esotericism and Gnosticism, you can find embedded into the film Heretic as well as Joseph Smith's transformative journey
0:59.5	Which is found baked into the LDS temple endowment ceremonies
1:03.3	We're gonna talk about sacred spaces the human power structures what goes on behind the veil you're gonna find out today
1:09.0	Here on a cult symbolism and pop culture.
1:14.3	So without further ado, we're going to get into this interview.
1:17.8	And also, while I'm talking to you, there's a video version of this show.
1:22.1	And as you know, massive drama with the video version of the show.
1:30.8	And as of for this particular episode, I'm going to release the video version of the show at the same time that I released the audio version on the free feed.
1:36.6	So by all means, please follow along because he's going to bring up a couple images as we discuss.
1:39.2	You can find, I'm put a link in the show notes.
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