Previously: A House for the Presidency
Welcome readers. Thanks for joining me for Part I of my new series: Ancient Temples, where we'll be examining the construction narratives of 8 LDS temples supposedly built between 1877 and 1945.
How to Train, I mean Kill, Your Dragon
This creature is actually a chimera known as a black Zilant, a mixture of a lion, an eagle, and a wyvern. A wyvern is a mythical dragon will a curly tail and only two legs. Some researchers of Tartaria have also called this creature a griffin. Oddly enough, you can find stone depictions of these creatures on buildings all over the United States. Here are some griffins on a government building in Oshkosh, Wisconsin:
As you can see, they are displaying the double-headed eagle or phoenix that dates back to the Byzantine empire, along with that crest of St. George slaying the dragon smack dab in the middle. Here is a close up of it:
Interestingly, Vladimir Putin displayed this same flag in the interview that he had with Tucker Carlson earlier this year. You can see the flag, and St. George slaying the dragon in the background:
I highly recommend watching the interview, especially the first 30 minutes or so when Putin dives deep into Russian history dating back over 1000 years.
The fact is that the Communists condemn--and therefore prevent the publication of--all Muslim literary works except those few which extol the virtues of Russia and the Russians...
Or let us take the matter of history, which, along with religion, language and literature, constitute the core of a people's cultural heritage. Here again the Communists have interfered in a shameless manner. For example, on 9 August 1944, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, sitting in Moscow, issued a directive ordering the party's Tartar Provincial Committee "to proceed to a scientific revision of the history of Tartaria, to liquidate serious shortcomings and mistakes of a nationalistic character committed by individual writers and historians in dealing with Tartar history."
In other words, Tartar history was to be rewritten--let us be frank, was to be falsified--in order to eliminate references to Great Russian aggressions and to hide the facts of the real course of Tartar-Russian relations. (National Cultural Development Under Communism, June 1957, emphasis added)
Putin's display of the Russian imperial flag may well be a sign that Russia still aligns with the Papacy and is proud of the fact that they defeated the Tartarians and rewrote their history. In my opinion, this would mean that Russia is still very much one of the seven heads of the Beast described in the Book of Revelations, and will play a major role in the coming Beast system.
But for our purposes here, the symbol of St. George slaying the dragon is much more than an ancient fairytale. It's a symbol, hidden in plain sight, of the consolidation of the Eastern and Western Orthodox Churches under the head of the Holy Roman Catholic Empire (still alive today and ran by the Jesuits) and their directive to rewrite history and keep us, their corporate slaves, deceived. Remember what Orwell said, "He who controls the past controls the future".
Thus, St. George killing the dragon of Tartaria, may really be a symbol of the Papacy's power to erase (both physically and historically) entire civilizations from off the face of the earth.
This should beg the question: what other civilizations have the parasitic controllers erased from history?
For more information on Russian/Tartarian history and St. George and the Dragon, watch the video below:
And with that introduction we are now ready to dive into the history of Utah's St. George and the first temple "built" by LDS Pioneers in a barren southwestern wasteland.
300 Miles From Nowhere
There will yet be built between these volcanic ridges, a city, with spires, towers, and steeples, with homes containing many inhabitants. (Quoted in All That Was Promised: The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration, Kindle version, Loc 535)
Later, in 1863, Brigham retold the incident to an audience in St. George as follows:
Some have asked why this place should have been located [here]. I will tell you: it is the very place I intended the city of St. George to be built upon. When I was on my first visit to the Santa Clara and Tonaquint settlements, I saw in vision this place inhabited by a multitude of people, and large domes were towering up in every direction. I shall yet see this with my natural eyes. (Ibid, emphasis added)
It's interesting that Brigham Young lamented near the end of his life that he never saw the Lord and wasn't a visionary prophet like Joseph Smith or Daniel, but he called himself rather a "Yankee Guesser." Yet, it never fails that whenever there was a place to settle or a temple to be built, he always seemed to have seen it in vision first.
Or, was he just seeing, with his "natural eyes", what was already here? Spires, towers, steeples, and domes, the stuff of old world buildings, literally dot the land in every direction. This begs the question: what did Brigham know? What had Pierre de Smet told him or shown him in Jesuit maps and documents? Why would the Latter-Day Saints travel so far south (over 300 miles away from Salt Lake) at such an early time period to settle a barren wasteland if they did not know that something was already there?
Called to Starve... er, I mean Serve
The other structure built in the 1860s (during the period when there was no food and the people were starving) was the St. George Hall, which later morphed into an opera house. Because, you know, nothing sooths the pangs of death by starvation like some good o'l opera:
A Temple the Nephites couldn’t Build
“Master Builders", Leaning Walls, and Strange Ceremonies
As the heavy stone walls continued upward without sufficient inner support, they began to lean inward. George Kirkham confirmed this when he recorded: "I was told that the walls were leaning in for the want of timber inside... [a]s the buttresses on the outside would press the walls in." It was obvious to both Church architect William Folsom and Miles Romney that the simultaneous building out of the interior, using beams, joists, flooring, and studding for each successive floor, would counter the leaning of the walls and keep them straight and erect. (All That Was Promised, Loc 2726)
There are a few different ways to construct stone buildings, some types of exterior walls need interior framing support and some do not. These "master builders" would have known what they were doing before they began this construction project, and to have massive leaning walls on a structure this large seems highly improbable in this story. A building constructed so hastily and incorrectly would not last a decade, let alone 150 years. Conveniently, there are no photos of the leaning walls to be found online. We only get photos like this that show a magnificent finished structure:
The type of stone walls described in Yorgason's book are known as "framed one-side stone walls", which means that the exterior walls are supported by a strong interior frame, and in the case of the St. George temple, we're told that this frame was made of timbers from Arizona. Building the exterior walls before a proper frame was constructed would be putting the proverbial cart before the horse, and if done in a real-life setting, would have disastrous consequences. "Master builders" do not build this way, yet this narrative is insisting that they did so.
The excuse we are given is that the lumber had to hauled (with horse-drawn wagons of course) from Trumbull, Arizona, which was over 70 miles away, and that's why the stone walls were built first. But if the narrative is true, then how in the world did workers push the leaning exterior walls out far enough to straighten them to 90 degrees, and simultaneously frame the interior walls and floors once the lumber had arrived? They had no heavy equipment like excavators or cranes to assist them, just nothing but good o'l man power. How many men (or horses) were attempting to straighten a single wall (perhaps using ropes and pulleys?) while other men were inside constructing wooden frames?
In my opinion, what they are describing is physically impossible, and consequently, the narrative falls completely apart here. The narrators have inverted the story, asserting that workers built this massive structure in reverse order. Inversion, or mirror-imaging, is a trademark of the Jesuit controllers, it is their modus operandi.
All we have to do is look at this story with a little common sense to see that it's a complete fraud.
Ask yourself: how many buildings do you see being constructed today that have leaning walls? Zero, because even in our day of brutalist square boxes, load-bearing walls and frames are always built first.
The St. George temple is a structural masterpiece, and in my opinion, there is zero chance it was constructed like the story says it was. Take another look at the building and ask yourself how they "straightened" those massive, 80-foot-tall walls leaning inward, while at the same time working inside to frame it with wooden supports:
Also in this image you can clearly see the out-of-place stairs going up to what looks like a second floor, as well as the mud-flooded windows below.
Before we move on to the baptismal font (which an entire post could be written about), there are two ceremonies we need to consider which offer even more clues that this story has been rewritten by imposters: the groundbreaking and the cornerstone ceremonies. These ceremonies are hallmarks of Freemasonic craft, ritual, and lore.
Remember, the Masons want credit for building all of these Old World structures, calling themselves "Master Builders" and "Master Masons", another inversion of reality. "Master Builders" who apparently build buildings in reverse order, after the fact.
On November 9th of 1871, the groundbreaking ceremony took place. We're told that Brigham Young led the ritual, and as he removed the first scoop of earth with his primitive shovel, he explained to the people the proper order of laying cornerstones--which he claimed to have learned from Joseph Smith. (Really Brigham?)
Cornerstones, he attested, always had to be laid in the southeast corner, because that is where "the first light of the day shines upon it when the sun rises in the east." Later, when he was said to have conducted the Manti temple cornerstone ceremony, he said that the first stone is to "be laid at the southeast corner, the point of greatest light, and at high noon there is the most sunlight."
Clearly, this is symbolic language, steeped in Masonic lore and ancient sun worship. At the groundbreaking in St. George, Brigham went on to describe yet another protocol of Freemasonic cornerstone ceremonies, the depositing of "sacred records" inside the future cornerstone. This, we are told, happened on April 1 (April Fool's day) of 1874. On that day a large crowd gathered as Church leaders conducted the ceremony, accompanied by temple workmen. A box was prepared with "lock and key" (another Masonic phrase) and filled with records, publications, scriptures, transcripts of sermons, newspapers, and even an "Abstract of the History of Southern Utah," written by historian James G. Bleak (I wish I could get my hands on that document).
We're told that Brigham inserted this box into a hollowed-out block of lava rock in the southeast corner of the temple foundation, at high noon (another symbolic number representing the sun). After the box was deposited, a dedicatory prayer was offered.
Now, you can compare this ceremony to the official Masonic protocols of a cornerstone ceremony found in Webb's 1865 Freemason's Monitor, which you can read here, under the heading, "Ceremony of Laying the Foundation of Public Structures". If you research the Old World structures I have been blogging about in Utah, you will find many elements of these Masonic rituals described in the cornerstone ceremonies, the 1917 Church Administration Building (the subject of my last post) is one of the most blatant examples.
An interesting observation I have made is that many Old World buildings in Utah, including the first three temples (St. George, Logan, and Manti) had their cornerstones laid in the southeast corner. One of the only buildings I can find that was said to have had its cornerstone laid in the northeast corner is the Salt Lake temple.
According to Masonic lore and tradition, cornerstones were always supposed to be laid in the northeast corner, for astronomical reasons. When the sun is in Leo during the summer solstice, it rises directly over the northeast corner of a building that is facing east (ancient temples always faced east towards the rising sun). Northeast is also symbolic of both darkness and light, and represents the Masonic degree of Entered Apprentice. According to author Robert Hewitt Brown who wrote Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, laying the cornerstone in the southeast corner was considered "sacrilegious":
As the temples always face the east, so as to catch the first rays of the rising sun, it is almost certain that the cornerstone also, for like religious reasons, would be laid in a line with the rising sun. The sun, as he arose on the longest day of the year, rejoicing in his pride and strength, would thus be a type of the new temple about to rise majestically from its foundations. On the contrary, to lay the cornerstone of the new solar temple in the southeastern line of the sun's decline and fall, at the winter solstice, or toward the north, the point of darkness, or yet toward Amenti, the western region of gloom death, would, according to the teachings of astrology, be most unpropitious, it not sacrilegious. (p. 169)
The St. George temple, like all LDS temples, faces east, which begs the question: why does the narrative have Brigham Young conducting a cornerstone ceremony that is considered sacrilegious to the Masons? In Morgan's Freemasonry, the reason why cornerstones are placed in the northeast corner is explained:
The first stone in every Masonic edifice is, or ought to be, placed at the North-East corner, that being the place where an Entered Apprentice Mason receives his first instructions to build his future Masonic edifice upon. (p.25)
What are we to make of this strange anomaly? I'm not sure, but there is definitely something strange going on with cornerstones on Old World buildings. It may be that the true builders of these structures did indeed insert relics and keepsakes into the cornerstones of the buildings to preserve for future generations, and after the reset when the buildings were repurposed, the Freemasons went in and destroyed those relics and placed new ones in their stead. This is what might have actually been transpiring when we read accounts of LDS cornerstone laying ceremonies.
The video below goes deeper into this theory on a building in Portland, Maine:
Of course, there may still some surviving relics of the past civilization hidden away in hollowed-out-stone in some of these buildings, hidden in places that our civilization has yet to find. In the case of our national capitol building in Washington, D.C., the official story is that the cornerstone was "lost" and they still have not found it to this very day. Strange indeed.
And speaking of strange things, the narrative surrounding the baptismal font of the St. George temple, said to have been the first LDS baptismal font to have been forged out of molten metal, is full of logistical anomalies and subtle parallels to yet more Masonic symbolism.
Brigham Young & the "Molten Sea"
...stood upon twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east. And the sea was set above them, and all their hindquarters were inward. (1 Kings 2:44, RE)
We're told that in February of 1873, while the foundation of the temple was being finished in a marshy bog, Brigham Young met with Bishop Nathan Davis, who just happened to own an iron foundry in Salt Lake City. Brigham hired Davis to make the baptismal font, but despite the fact that he owned a foundry shop the man didn't have any experience in foundry. But, of course, there was a young man in Davis' ward who did have experience, one Amos Howe, who only agreed to help if he was made a partner.
It just so happened that Howe, in addition to being a foundry man, was a skilled artist who made foundry molds by carving them out of wood. Upon learning this, Brigham first assigned to Howe the task of carving the perfect ox out of wood for the casting.
(Do we even realize how hard this would've been? The original wood carving should be in museum, but apparently we don't have it.).
After Brigham rejected Howe's first model, a search was made throughout all of Idaho and Utah for the "perfect ox", which was brought to the foundry and corralled there to be used as a live model for weeks.
At length, we are told that Howe was able to carve an anatomically perfect wooden model that far exceeded Young's expectations, and thus preparations were made to melt down the pig iron that would become twelve oxen holding up a baptismal font. In June of 1875 we're told that the Deseret News reported on Howe's work, describing the oxen as looking genuine and being life-size, and cast without hooves, which would seem to disappear into the temple floor. Each ox would be secured with a long bolt, somehow drilled into the lava rock floor below.
The poor-quality image above is the oldest photo I could find of the St. George font, and as you can see, it's massive. According to the Deseret News, the font was "oval in shape", and "13 feet by 9 feet at the top." The font alone weighed 18,000 pounds, an astounding 9 tons.
As the story goes, Howe finished the font by July of 1875, the oxen and font had been cast in movable pieces, and were ready to be shipped to St. George in the intense heat. The pieces made their way by train from Salt Lake to as far south as the Santaquin Hill in northern Juab County. But this is where the railroad ended, and the remaining 200-plus-mile journey would have to be made with wagons pulled by teams of oxen.
The massive load, weighing close to 30,000 pounds, would be split up into three wagon loads (10K pounds each), each one being bolted down and secured for the journey. One teamster said he had "three yoke of oxen and a 3-1/4 size wagon to draw" his load, whatever that means (during this time period we're told that wagon loads maxed out at a weighted-load between 4-5 thousand pounds).
As they journeyed south, the weather turned hotter, and soon the oxen were trudging along through 115-degree weather. With limited access to water, teamsters kept their oxen cool with "plenty of good Dixie wine", which they apparently were hauling with them. (If this is true, and of course I do not believe it is, alcohol would only exacerbate the dehydration of the oxen.)
As the teamsters drew closer to St. George, they were bombarded by spectators wanting to see the contents of the load, but as the story goes, only bishops were allowed to see the font. And as soon as they arrived in St. George, a large crowd had gathered, and workers wasted no time in unloading the wagons and hauling the massive pieces down into the temple basement. Each oxen, weighing 600 pounds, was moved into place by "sailor-type block-and-tackle swung under heavy tripods", and then welded together and bolted down to the lava rock floor.
A major detail that is left out of this story is how workers maneuvered those iron pieces around the exterior walls and into the basement. According to Yorgason's book, the temple walls had risen to 18 feet above the ground by April of 1874, and 35 feet by December of that same year. And then we have this photo in Yorgason's book, showing the walls 80 feet tall by sometime in 1874:
The manipulation of the ropes was under Jarvis's direction, but because the spectators were also shouting instructions the sailors had difficulty at first hearing his commands. George endured it for several minutes; but seeing it was causing confusion, he finally yelled: "you landlubbers... keep perfectly quiet until we have the font in place!" Silence reigned as everyone watched intently. George Jarvis snapped a few nautical orders and the nine ton font rose slowly and was swung into its place on the oxen without a hitch [and not even a sixteenth of an inch off dead center]. (All That was Promised, loc 4150)
What a sight this would've been, four men of herculean strength able to lift 4,500 pounds each, and in only one try no less, swinging the nine ton font exactly into place, within 1/16 of an inch. What is not to believe here?
It kind of reminds me of this scene from The Lego Movie:
According to Masonic lore, Hiram Abiff was the "master builder" of Solomon's temple. But as you dig deeper into the esoteric meaning of the story, you find that the building of this temple by Hiram is not a literal account, but rather a parable for the remaking of mankind. The temple represents the human race, and Hiram's "workmanship" represents the constant molding and shaping of that race through the subtle control of governments and laws. If you study the works of Manly P. Hall and Albert Pike, you will find constant references to the idea of the temple of mankind.
But what I have recently discovered will make your head spin even more, because, in my opinion, the molten sea is also a metaphor for human resets.
As the legend goes, when it was time for Hiram to cast the molten sea he did so alchemically using 7 precious metals, with bronze being the final layer. The number 7 is a symbol for ascension, which we see in the Christian concept of Jacob's Ladder. As Hiram is attempting to cast this molten sea, the three ruffians, representing the Church (superstition), the State (fear), and the Mob (ignorance), plot to murder him and destroy his masterpiece (being of course human society).
As these three ruffians, or apprentices, are in the act of destroying the molten sea Hiram suddenly hears a voice of his ancestor Tubal-Cain, beckoning him to dive into the sea which is now a raging inferno (symbolic of the descent into hell?). After obeying the voice Hiram finds himself in the center of the earth where he meets Tubal-Cain and Cain himself, who shines with the luster of his master, Lucifer, the true god of Freemasonry. They give Hiram a hammer (Thor's hammer?) which he uses to complete the molten sea after returning to the earth's surface. This hammer may be a metaphor for using brute force (the power of the State) to shape and mold humanity, represented by the molten sea (remember, Nephi also uses water imagery to describe masses of people).
After completing this task Hiram is then murdered by the three ruffians, but not before he writes the "lost word of Freemasonry" on something called the "golden triangle". He is then buried with an acacia twig on his grave, a tree which also appears in the Egyptian myth of Osiris.
The story of Hiram is a mirror image of the tale of Osiris. These legends are the same stories, told over and over again throughout the centuries, manifesting with different names in many different cultures. This, dear readers, is Lucifer's doctrine hidden in plain sight: the destruction of free agency.
According to Rudolph Steiner, a prominent Freemason who wrote during the early 19th century, the molten sea "is a symbol of the Great Work of Art for which the entire mineral kingdom must be re-cast [which is] the task of our Manvantara" (See Steiner, The Temple Legend, Kindle Version, p. 234).
What Steiner may be implying here is that the mineral kingdom, aka humanity, must be re-cast, or reset, throughout various times in history. The word Manvantara is a Hindu concept describing a cyclic period, or age of a Manu, the progenitor of mankind. At each Manvantara a deified king and his sons are created and then subsequently perish. This is the pattern, also seen in the Book of Mormon, of the rise and fall of nations. This is the pattern of resets.
According to Steiner, we are in, or close to "the sixth post-Atlantean epoch", whatever that means. Steiner asserts that "out of the Mystery of the Brotherhood of the Rose Cross will arise the Christianity of the sixth cultural epoch, which will recognize the significance of the Molten Sea and the golden triangle". Whatever Steiner is describing here, sounds terrifying and awful, and in my opinion, is a future reset.
The St. George temple is not the first edifice where this molten sea of Solomon's temple has been seen. We're told that the baptismal font in the Nauvoo temple also had twelve oxen under a font, but was built out of wood, and then recast in limestone in 1845. Yet, as I've pointed out before, the Lord rejected the Church and its baptisms for the dead before the Brighamites began performing ordinances in that temple, and since they had already begun re-writing the history as soon as Joseph and Hyrum were dead, then how are we to believe that such a font existed in the Nauvoo temple, especially since it was destroyed in a fire in 1848, and then finished off by a tornado?
Nevertheless, there is a chapel in Liege, Belgium that contains another "molten sea" sitting upon twelve oxen said to have been fashioned by a goldsmith named Renier de Huy in the 12the century. Check it out:
If such a model of the “molten sea” existed so long ago, is it really that unreasonable to surmise that the one in the St. George temple may also be ancient? In my opinion, the group that actually built this temple and font may have been the Knights Templars themselves (before being infiltrated by the Rosicrucians), or later groups who possessed the secrets of building passed down by the Templars. Or, the St. George temple may have even been built by the Nephites, who would have used the font, like the priests in Solomon’s temple, for washing after animal sacrifices.
Repeating Names, a Fire Narrative, and Constitutional Necromancy
- St. George being named by George A. Smith, after his martyred son, George A. Jr.
- Miles Romney, the "master builder" appointed by Brigham Young, whose father and grandfather back in England were both named George.
- "Master mason" Edward L. Parry, a Englishman whose home town in Wales was called St. George.
- George Faucett, a man who drove one of the first teams into St. George in 1861.
- George Staheli, a starving worker who walked 10 miles a day (there and back) to work on the temple.
- George Jarvis, the sailor from England who was in charge of hoisting up and placing the 9-ton baptismal font atop the oxen base.
- George Hick's, the author of various poems and songs written about the settlement of St. George.
- George Luab, a carpenter who worked on the interior of the temple who was adopted by George Weydler, and then apprenticed under George Bailey, and named one of his sons George Weydler Luab.
- George Kirkham Jr., "master carpenter" and known to historians as the official "journal keeper" on the construction of the temple. His father was also named George, and of course he named one of his sons George.
- George Miles, a patriarch who tells a story of his older brother having a fist fight on the temple walls.
- George Lang, a teamster who fell from a wagon and had his ear torn off while hauling lava rock.
- General George Washington, posthumously baptized in the St. George temple along with many other founding fathers.
I will here say, before closing, that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they: "You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God." These were the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I thought it very singular that notwithstanding so much work had been done, and yet nothing had been done for them. The thought never entered my heart, from the fact, I suppose, that heretofore our minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon Brother McAllister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Columbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the United States except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them. (Journal of Discourses, XIX, 229)
If this story is true then why didn't the Founding Fathers come earlier to the Endowment House to request baptism? Obviously, from what Wilford is saying here that house was clearly being used for baptisms for the dead. Why then did this "vision" happen only after the St. George temple was finished? It really doesn't make any sense. Also, most of the Founding Fathers were deists, so why would they suddenly want to become Mormons in the after life? (The Book of Mormon tells us that the same spirit we die with possesses us in the next world).
In my opinion, this story is merely a faith-promoting rumor designed to bolster institutional authority. I do not believe it ever happened, but was written by pseudo-history writers after the fact to legitimize and immortalize LDS authority for baptism for the dead. Remember, God rejected this Church and its baptisms for the dead, so why would He authorize this necromancy between Woodruff and the dead signers of the Declaration of Independence? It really doesn't make any sense at all.
Join me next time as we explore the history of the Logan temple, completed in 1884. In the meantime, here is a photo gallery of the St. George temple.
Here is how the temple looks today. As the story goes, the red sandstone exterior was covered up with plaster and made white to contrast against the reddish-orange desert:
Supposed photo of the oxen team that hauled the baptismal font:
Photos of the interior showing the five-pointed star and quatrefoils:
Quatrefoils are basically four-leaf clovers. They have been used in both Christian and Muslim architecture (the Tartars were primarily Muslim). Here is an Old World building with quatrefoil designs on the exterior stone:
Thanks for sticking with me thus far, I know my posts can be long. If this topic interests you, and you're open to the possibility that the LDS pioneers did not build these temples, here is a small piece of what's coming in future posts:
Your cities will fall and I'll break open your guarded borders. Your sciences and learning will turn into foolishness, and your false beliefs will cause your failure. I'll expose the fraud of those in authority, and your trusted institutions will lose everyone's loyalty. False prophets and false ministers will be brought to shame and humiliation. (Covenant of Christ, 3 Nephi 9:XII, emphasis added)
Have you done a post on how involved Joseph Smith was with the Mason's. I'm wondering if he wasn't as involved as the Church makes him out to be, some what like the polygamy issue. You may have. Covered it but I'm somewhat new to this blog.
ReplyDeleteThank, Jim
Jim, thanks for the comment. No I have not done a post on that yet but I agree with you on the subject. I believe that Joseph's name was somehow added to the roles of Freemasonry in Nauvoo either posthumously or without his permission while he was yet alive.
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