The Luck of Roaring Camp and Joe Smith
Mark Hines
-----Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed.
A Mormon wrote:
"I do know that Joseph Smith was involved in the occult all his life,
and that he died giving a Masonic cry and carrying in his jacket pocket
an occultic Jupiter talisman. I know that Joseph Smith had a very vivid
imagination and that as a boy he used to tell fantastic stories about
the Indians to his family which he made up. He had the ability to write
the Book of Mormon himself. I know also he was an adulterer, that he
organized the Danite mobs that went assassinating the enemies of the
Church. I know much more which cannot be related here."
The "Masonic cry" referred to is called the Grand Hailing Sign of
Distress. A Mason is to give it only if he is in appropriately serious
distress. It is given by raising both hands towards heaven, with each
arm forming the angle of a square, or a 90 degree angle. The arms are
then lowered in three distinct motions to the sides. If the Mason in
distress is in a place where the sign cannot be seen, he is to utter a
substitute for the sign: "O Lord, my God, is there no help for the
Widow's Son?" Smith had given the Masonic Distress sign at Carthage,
showing that his hopes lay not in God, but in occult Freemasonry.
After Dr. Reed Durham gave his address about Joe Smith's talisman and
Masonic beliefs, Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball called Durham on
the carpet. Troubled and embarrassed that Durham would dare to be honest
about Joe Smith,. Kimball took Durham to the woodshed. With his
backsides sore, Dr. Durham issued a letter affirming his faith in Joe
Smith and apologizing for the "concerns, and misunderstandings" that
the speech had caused, although he didn't retract the basic facts of the
speech. Dr. Durham's actions were unforgivable, though. In Mormon
society, there are serious consequences for being honest about Joe
Smith.
After Dr. Durham embarrassed the Mormon church by revealing
documentation of Smith's deeply occult influences, President Kimball
removed the statue of Moroni from Temple Square, since the statue had
occult and Masonic markings. Dr. Durham had drawn unwanted attention and
publicity to the church's Satanic origins.
Less than two months after becoming a Master Mason, Smith introduced
temple ceremonies very similar to Masonic ones. He claimed that the
endowment ceremony was given to him by revelation from God. In his
speech, Dr. Durham found that Smith's temple ceremonies were derived
from Masonry.
After Kimball lectured him, Dr. Durham, in effect, promised not to be
honest again. When David John Buerger (author of The Mysteries of
Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship), wrote Durham requesting
additional information on the source documentation for his address, Dr.
Durham replied:
"I am sorry, but because of the nature of the subject matter, the
Brethren have requested that I do no more with the subject again--I am
not to release info. or have any more to say on the subject. This hurts
me very much--as I believe that nothing--no amount of study,
exploration, nor research, will ever hurt the church or the cause of
truth--ever! However, I will be obedient to my Brethren and be still."
(Letter from Reed Durham to David Buerger. Photocopy in our possession).
What kind of "church" exists only when members promise not to be honest?
Christian churches don't have secret passwords, tokens, etc., but Masons
and other occult organizations do. Mormons tell each other that they
will make secret signs to each other after death. When they die, they
will find out that God is in control. They will find out just how much
God doesn't like being represented with Min, too.
Although he claimed that the ceremony was a "revelation from God," his
introduction of the endowment ceremony was as much a "revelation from
God" as the note Joe passed on to Emma through his brother Hyrum
saying, in effect, that God had laid aside standard rules about adultery
and wanted Joe to have multiple sex partners. If Emma didn't accept
these women in the house, God would kill the impure ones.
Hey, folks, these were the 1830s and 1840s. These were rough-and-tumble
cowboy days--the days of untamed wilderness, and artful hyperbole.
These were the days of tall tales and colorful embellishment, of Mark
Twain's whoppers and earlier of Bret Hart's Luck of Roaring Camp. Joe
Smith contributed with a "golden Bible" and with giant "gold spectacles"
that could interpret "reformed Egyptian" doodles. Cowboy gangs staged
daring robberies, their days ending quickly in shoot-outs, their souls
on to hell. Seeds were germinated for a false religion as daring as the
Dalton gang's most desperate exploits, a religion that would lead
millions to the gates of hell.
Mormons should have known that God would not set aside Biblical
strictures because Smith had an eye for teen leg. The Bible has serious
warnings about adultery: Exodus 20:14; Proverbs 6:32, 7:16-22; Jeremiah
7:9, 23:14, 29:23; Ezekiel 16:38; Hosea 4:2; Matthew 5:27-32, 15:19,
19:9, 19:17-18; Mark 7:21, 10:11-12, 10:19; Luke 16:18. 18:20; Romans
2:22, 13:9; James 2:11; 2 Peter 2:14)
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Mark Hines
www.ortk.org/boa.htm
www.ortk.org/e.htm
handyman
Temple... or he would know that it is NOT A Secret Ceramony but a time
honoured ceromony that is Sacred...
To avoid the Mockery of the Unlearned and the Casting of Pearls befor
swine... they value it not through lack of knowledge or Faith.
this is not to be common knowledge for that verry reason.
True thier are paralells between but the Masons got thier knowledge from
the ceremonys praticed in the early temples and passed on a simblence of
the actual ordanances as were witnessed at that time kinda like the
game secret the actvity got altered and was Restored in latter days.
d.wilson
hhan...@hotmail.com wrote:
> This man is not a LDS Member or at the least has not entered into a
> Temple... or he would know that it is NOT A Secret Ceramony but a time
> honoured ceromony that is Sacred...
> To avoid the Mockery of the Unlearned and the Casting of Pearls befor
> swine... they value it not through lack of knowledge or Faith.
> this is not to be common knowledge for that verry reason.
> True thier are paralells between but the Masons got thier knowledge from
> the ceremonys praticed in the early temples and passed on a simblence of
> the actual ordanances
Which ordinances were those? What kind of evidenc do you have that the
Freemasons existed before 1100 or 1200 A.D.? I suspect that you haven't
actually researched any of what you are claiming because it is very hard to
trace the freemasons back past the thirteenth century. You are probably
refering to a common myth that goes around LDS people about the Masons and
the Temple of Solomon. Did you just hear this story from someone else? be
carefull where yu get your information.
Frater Wilson
as were witnessed at that time kinda like the
> game secret the actvity got altered and was Restored in latter days.
>
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