Sacred or Stolen? Mormon Temples and Masonry
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Bill Reel
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 193 minutes
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What do Mormon temples and Masonic lodges really have in common? In this episode of Mormonism Live, Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon dig deep into the original words of LDS leaders, historians, and first-hand witnesses to uncover the startling overlap between Freemasonry and the Mormon temple endowment. From Joseph Smith and Heber C. Kimball… Read More »Sacred or Stolen? Mormon Temples and Masonry
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:04.0 | How are you, RFM? |
| 0:05.4 | I'm great. |
| 0:05.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:06.3 | I was waiting for your cold open. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, well, no cold open, but tonight took a ton of fun. |
| 0:11.1 | But before we get to it, we'll talk about masonry, having to do with the temple |
| 0:16.7 | endowment, what early church leaders said, what the documents show. |
| 0:20.4 | But I wanted to start off, first just checking in to see how your week's been, seeing how- Colaceous. I don't even want to talk about it. This will be the quickest part of tonight's show. All right. Well, then we could just jump through it. But RFM, you've got crazy things happen, and it sounds like, but none of them are going to make the airwaves. No, none of these. Okay. |
| 0:44.4 | Let's start off by having a conversation around, you joined the Church, the Church of Jesus Christ, |
| 0:45.6 | Latter-day Saints, Mormonism. |
| 0:48.2 | You joined it in 1978. |
| 0:57.5 | I joined it in 1996, practically 20 years later. But we share a lot of commonality. Mormonism stayed pretty consistent from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. And that Mormonism was the Mormonism that a lot of |
| 1:05.7 | our older followers, not the young kids, but the middle ageaged folks and above. That's the Mormonism that |
| 1:11.6 | they've experienced. Talk for a moment about when you join the church, the first few years, |
| 1:17.9 | you go through the temple. What is it that you're taught to believe about the temple, and what are |
| 1:25.1 | the things you sort of learn and then to try to get an answer for what |
| 1:28.2 | those are what are the explanations that we get and and I want to share some of that too so we'll see |
| 1:33.3 | how this goes and I'd love to hear your personal experience well thank you very much so what we're |
| 1:39.3 | talking about is connections between the rituals of two secret societies and whether they overlap and if so how much so |
| 1:46.9 | you have to be a member of one secret society to know it goes on in that temple and you have to be a member of the |
| 1:52.3 | second secret society to know it goes on in that second temple and i think that the lDS church has |
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