Mormonism and the Occult

I have extensive experience in my earlier years in the religion of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. Known commonly as Mormonism.

I recognize that initially upon learning of some of the shady past of Mormonism, I was turned off from religion as a whole. I leaned for a while to complete athiesim.

 This was the next logical step, as Mormonism indoctrinates its people to beleive that it is the one and only true religion. All others have fallacies. So once the foundation crumbles, it is hard to move to another faith or dogma, because those foundations were destroyed early on.

As most people who experience this type of cult indoctrination, mental abuse and then eventual escape, there are the accompanying stages of grief that follow. It is almost like clockwork, and as today the Mormon church is hemoraging members from its rolls, I see this process repeated over and over.

I have been free from cults and religion for many years now, and my perspective is changing. I would never again align myself with a cult or a dogmatic faith, however what I do see now is that spirituality is prevelant in our lives if we let it. There is soemthing to all of the teachings that I learned in my youth.

All religion has something that resonates to us on a deeper level. There is definitely something more to this life and this body than simply us being human animals, walking around in our meat suits, only to die and become worm food. There is something more.

Mormonism began in a strange and fascinating time. Looking to its origins is fascinating from an outside perspective. Inside the church, it is fed to the membership as a watered down version, with only the good and, often, boring aspects, being taught.

The true fascination comes with the real history, unfortunately, this history is damaging to the church and its doctrine for the beleivers.

Here however, we start with the premise that the church is a false religion, and that it has borrowed many of its tenents in whole or part from occult practices, the methodist religion, and various ideas of the 1800s.

Taking this into account makes for the now boring bland religion to actually become quite fascinating.

It is true that by accepting the origins of this religion is damaging for the membership today, and by watering down the original themes and practices of the church has allowed for a growing membership, until recently, if those original themes were still held upfront and clear to the public, the religion would never have been able to go mainstream.  After all, the goal of many, if not most churches is to get money. This would not happen if they could not grow their membership base.

So today's Mormon church may seem like a Disney version of life, with it's bland church buildings scattered across the world, its origins are intriguing.

Joseph Smith, the founder and first president and "prophet" of this orginization is discussed today in the church as wholesome farmboy, with good morals and a zest for truth who came to find it through revelation. Subsequently he formed the church.

In reality he was so entrenched in the occult that he used this as a mechanism to not only recruit new membership, but also to control the membership population, placing him at the head of a cult like organization that left him in power. With money, women and control.

This is a much better story than the quaint farmboy story that is so boring it is embarrassing.

It is no surprise that he created this religion with these themes because he was raised on it. I doubt that he ever worked an honsest day in his life like the hard working farmboy myth promotes. Instead he was a con man, using occult practices to search for hidden treasure. Often conning others into paying him for his services. He even has a court record where he was fined for "glass looking", which is old timey talk for swindling.

His father was a freemason, which is notable, The entire Smith family was raised on these freemasonic themes, even his older brother was named Hyrum. Which is significant because of the history of that name within the masonic organization. (research Hiram Abiff)

Unto the end of his life, Joseph was a freemason. He was murdered, (Mormons will say Martyred) by other masons because he really pissed them off. Not because of his beleifs, as they will state in Mormon church lessons.

His final words before being shot down from a second story window "O Lord, My God..." which is the beginning of the masonic distress call, a precursor to "O Lord My God, is there no help for the widow's son?!"

He was trying to appeal to the other Masons in the mob who came to kill him. No luck, they shot his ass down.

So let's look first at the Mormon Temple ritual.

As a side note, it is significant to remember that there were so many offshoots of mainstream mormonism, not only after Smith's death, but during his reign. Mormonism glances over this fact, but it is significant. There was strife within the organization from the beginning, and although we don't hear much from these organizations today, they exist, have existed, and carry many of the same tenents that were established with the original organization in the early 1800s.

Back to the temple.

The first temple was built in Kirkland Ohio, but it was not the establishment that the temples are today. It seems that the temple rituals were a work in progress. My opinoin is that the current endowmnet ceremony, which is borrowed from freemasonry, was not yet a thing in the early stages of the religion. Probably because the majority of the leadership of the church and the male membership were also freemasons, they had their lodges where they could practice these rituals already. It was not until later that freemasonry was "forgotten" to the point that it is never talked about in church today.

I'm saying, and this is my personal opinion based on what I know and my experience, that the endowment ceremony of the mormon temple was not created because there was no need. That higher stage of enlightenment was already practiced regularly because of the fact that virtually all of the male membership was part of the masonic organization.

I feel the need to state that explicitly here because in my many years of studying this religion both from inside and outside the church organization, this fact is really never mentioned. So you heard it here.

Down the road, through "revelation", Smith and subsequent church presidents have established and evolved the endowment ceremony.

Brigham Young also stated that the church has the "true masonry", meaning they had recieved the correct form of the rituals and practices as they had been practiced, dating back to Solomon.

Of course this is a fallacy. And even today we can see inside of Masonry, there are other lodges and organizations that borrow, modify and create their own organizations. All stating that they are correct in their practice, but the turmoil continues.

I say that they all have the right to be who they want to be, and practice these things the way they want. Masonry differs in Mormonism is that there is no head of the organization to deliver the final say so. The way Mormonism adapted their version of freemasonry is by assuming they had God's direct guidance through a prophet, to practice those rituals with the authority of God himself.


It makes sense, even if it is untrue.

So the Mormon Endowmnet is a freeemasonic ritual. Start to finish. It has changed quite a lot over the years. There are videos online whre you can watch hidden cams record the ceremony. It might look creepy to those who have not been initiated, but it is a regular practice.


Of course the problem for mormons is that up until they are initiated in the endowment they have no idea what really happens in the Temples.

Everyday mormonism is so bland, that it is not terribly unlike any other church. Of course the doctrine is different in places, and the meeting schedule is more intense. But nothing like what happens in a secret organization like freemasonry is ever discussed. No rituals, no strange outfits, no blood oaths, nothing to clue the members in to what will happen once they go to the temple to be endowed.

to be continued,