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"We have the true Masonry. The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing that is correct, but we have the real thing"

moksha wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:10 am Guess who said this:

"We have the true Masonry. The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing that is correct, but we have the real thing"

A. John Pemberton, who was defending the usage of coca leaves (cocaine) in the making of this outstanding American beverage, noting that it was 'the real thing'.

B. Heber C. Kimball, who was defending transforming the Grand Arch Masonic Ceremony into the Nauvoo Endowment Ceremony.

C. Milton S. Hershey, who was defending the decision to abandon milk caramels and replace them with milk chocolates.

D. Ardent fans of the movie La La Land protesting the decision of the Academy Awards to take the Oscar and give it to the producers of the movie Moonlight after the error of the wrong envelope was discovered.

It may seem surprising that Joseph should have incorporated so much Masonry into the endowment ceremony in the very weeks when all his leading men were being inducted into the Masonic lodge. They would have been blind indeed not to see the parallelism between the costuming, grips, passwords, keys, and oaths. Joseph made free use of other Masonic symbols — the beehive, the all-seeing eye, the two clasped hands, and the point within the circle. The miracle play performed in the Mormon ceremony differed only in subject matter from the Masonic drama of Hiram Abiff, and both used many of the same sonorous phrases from the Old Testament. Joseph taught his men simply that the Masonic ritual was a corruption of the ancient ritual of Solomon, and that his own was a restoration of the true Hebraic endowment.*

"Wilford Woodruff once frankly admitted that some temple ordinances were first performed in the Masonic Temple in Nauvoo.Temple Lot Case, p. 299."