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Adopted April 9, 1886 ... No. 308 ... 3. ... That as to the alleged 'temple building and ceremonial endowments therein,' that we know of no temple building, except as edifices wherein to worship God, and no endowment except the endowment of the Holy Spirit of the kind experienced by the early saints
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And those first Elders who helped to build it , received a portion of their first endowments, or we might say more clearly, some of the first, or introductory, or initiatory ordinances, preparatory to an endowment. The preparatory ordinances there administered, though accompanied the ministration of
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Initially, Smith intended the Kirtland endowment to become an annual affair; he administered the same ceremonies again in 1837. However, because of persecution the Mormons largely abandoned Kirtland and its temple in 1838-39 and moved west. As Smith's theology expanded during the 1840s, the Kirtland
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for the first time, which ordination "consisted the endowment--it being a new order--and bestowed authority". Later that year, an early convert who had left the church claimed that many of the Saints "have been ordained to the High Priesthood, or the order of Melchizedek; and profess to be endowed
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because of similarities with the 1831 and 1836 endowments, and the fact that part of the school's stated intention was so that the church's elders could be "endowed with power from on high". At the beginning, the school was "accompanied by a pentecostal outpouring, including speaking in tongues,
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endowment was superseded by the Nauvoo endowment. Mormons looked back upon the Kirtland Temple rituals with the authority bestowed by the three prophets as preparatory to the greater endowment revealed at Nauvoo. This was certainly the view of Brigham Young, who said:
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and "pour out Spirit upon them in that day they assemble themselves together". In a revelation given to an individual, Smith assured the man that "at the conference meeting he be ordained unto power from on high".
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around an altar. At the end of instruction, the initiate's knowledge of symbolic gestures and key-words is tested at a "veil", a symbolic final frontier for the initiate to face the judgment of
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and then washed each other's feet. Those present spent the rest of the day and night prophesying, speaking in tongues, testifying and exhorting each other. To those present it was a "day of
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endowed upon confirmation. While Rigdon believed the teachings of the early Mormon missionaries who converted him, he thought the missionaries were lacking in heavenly power.
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practices. They consisted of preparatory washings, administered in private homes, in which men washed and purified their bodies with water and alcohol
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A year and a half after the June 1831 endowment, Smith said he received a revelation in December 1832 to prepare to build a "house of God", or a
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transcript (1893) p. 272 ("By endowments in the church I understand as endowments in the Bible is spoken of endowment of the Holy Spirit.).
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The Nauvoo endowment consisted of two phases: (1) an initiation, and (2) an instructional and testing phase. The initiation consisted of a
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Although the events at this school were never specifically called an "endowment", it has been classified as such by scholars including
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angels, and the presence of the Lord Jesus, were but a faint similitude of the ordinances of the House of the Lord in their fulness.
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This general conference of the church was held from June 3 to June 6, 1831, in which a number of men were ordained to the "High" or
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to the LDS Church. Also in the LDS Church's modern practices, completing the endowment ceremony is a prerequisite to both full-time
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after three years of construction (1833–36), the elders of the church gathered for this second promised endowment in early 1836.
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Throughout 1843 and 1844, Smith continued to initiate other men, as well as women, into the endowment ceremony. By the time of
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to them in the Kirtland Temple, and his acceptance of the building as his house. This was followed by the appearance of three
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Cannon and Cook, 6-7; The official church history states that during this conference, "the authority of the
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prophesying and 'many manifestations of the holy spirit'". It included a new Latter Day Saint ordinance of
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refers to a gift of "power from on high", typically associated with the ordinances performed in
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The instructional and testing phase of the endowment consisted of a scripted reenactment of
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In January 1831, Smith issued a revelation where he wrote that after Mormons relocated to
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has the most significance to adherents of the Latter Day Saint branch known as
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was manifested and conferred for the first time upon several of the Elders" (
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A woman dressed in the robes of the Nauvoo endowment, circa the 1870s.
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A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ
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on June 27, 1844, more than 50 persons had been admitted into the
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Kirtland Temple, site of the Kirtland endowment in 1836 and 1837.
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The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship
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The Kirtland Temple endowment ceremonies were patterned after
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at the time, in retrospect, Latter Day Saints have viewed the
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1830 endowments: Endowment of the Holy Spirit and confirmation
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Smith, Joseph, et al. (February 1, 1832 - November 1, 1834)
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1831 Kirtland endowment: Conferral of the High Priesthood
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endowment of power beyond the abiding presence of the
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Index

Endowment (Mormonism)
Latter Day Saint movement
Latter Day Saint temples
Joseph Smith
confirmation
High Priesthood
Kirtland Temple
ritual
Nauvoo Temple
Mormonism
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Nauvoo endowment
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
covenants
consecration
missionary
temple marriage
temple recommend
Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)

confirmation
spiritual gifts
Authorized King James Version
Jesus
Pentecost
spiritual gifts
prophecy
Latter Day Saint ordinance
Community of Christ

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