The Temple Ceremony; Described from a Believer’s and a Non-Believer’s Perspective

       The majestic Mormon temples with inspiring heaven-directed steeples, the highest tower usually elevating a golden statue of the Angel Moroni—the angel that appeared to the founder, Joseph Smith, invariably promotes feelings of awe and reverence. Each temple is surrounded by lush landscaping meticulously groomed. This breath-taking vision of perfection and grandeur makes a lasting impression on all obedient members.

      Everyone who enters the sacred temple shows a temple recommend card issued by their Bishop to ensure the worthiness and loyalty of each member. We quietly proceed to the dressing rooms to change into white temple clothing, a mark of our purity before the Lord.

      We go into the Covenant Ceremony to renew our covenant to the Church. Here we watch a movie of the creation of the earth and the story of Adam and Eve. We also perform sacred Masonic rituals complete with sacred handshakes, names, tokens and penalties as signs of our obedience to the church. We are taught the true order of prayer, repeating words in cadence once the women have veiled their faces. After this, we are taken to the veil to give sacred words for entrance into the “Celestial” room representing the Celestial Kingdom available only to temple-worthy members of the true church in the next life. Here we sit in luxurious, serene surroundings to ponder and pray to God.           

      As we change to leave these hallowed walls, we feel great satisfaction that we are the chosen people doing the Lord’s work. Those that are temple worthy are the elect of God.

      It is with great understanding of the propaganda and empathy for the mindset of the LDS people, that I am now a whistleblower of corruption of the LDS leaders; extremely wealthy moneychangers who are a type and shadow of the Sadducees and Pharisees leaders of another “chosen” people who crucified the Savior.       

      My authority to declare the truth comes from personal spiritual experiences, a profound Near Death Experience (NDE) preceded by a mother’s prophetic dreams with many ensuing foretold events fulfilled, extensive research of early LDS history in the now-closed church archives, confirming documents, witnesses, and a pure understanding of scriptures.

      That I dare to refute the dogmatic beliefs of polygamy, masonry, inequality of women (and formerly blacks) to hold the priesthood and to expose the alterations (changing the identity of God) of the Book of Mormon[1], a 2nd witness of the Bible and ancient record of “the other sheep” whom the Lord visited after His Resurrection is at great odds with the pristine public image of an industrious, supposedly happy people.

      The indoctrination begins early. Some of the words of a frequently sung children’s LDS song comes to mind; “I love to see the temple, I’m going there someday. […]I’ll prepare myself while I am young; this is my sacred duty[…]I’ll covenant with my Father; I’ll promise to obey[…]

      As I look upon the bright lights of the LDS Temple in all its worldly splendor and grand illusion of godly perfection, I think of the 12 million Mormons who are led astray by a prophet who doesn’t prophesy or even believe in personal revelation. He flatters the people with his infamous words of “All is Well in Zion.” Interestingly, these words are a prophetic warning given in the Book of Mormon of those that will be exposed as liars and hypocrites (Doctrine & Covenants 64:38-40) and the great, abominable church (2 Nephi: 28) with a false prophet who will “carefully” (flattery, public image/public relations) “lead the people to hell.”        

      This is my last time as an exclusive member of the “elite club” to enter this temple of perfection once revered by me, now seen as a façade and as the satanic, Masonic temple that it is. I produce my prestigious, economically advantageous membership card and silently go into the changing rooms. All dressed in white, we are like ignorant sheep being led by a pied piper who flatters us with pleasing words; that we’re “the chosen” of the “only” true church.

      Observing carefully the now revised Masonic rituals, I notice that no one dares to speak out, no one dares to object. This was true even prior to 1990 when the Masonic rituals used in the temple were altered. The Masonic rituals were “softened” because people were waking up to the knowledge (thanks to the internet) that Masons worship Lucifer at the “illuminated” 33^rddegree levels.

     Brigham Young and Heber Kimball, 33^rd Degree Masons, infiltrated and influenced the direction of the early Mormon church. Before 1990, we would mindlessly pantomime the satanic blood-oath death penalty for disclosing the secrets of the temple by doing the actions of slitting the throat, cutting out the heart, and disemboweling the intestines. Today, these actions are omitted; however, we still repeat the blood oath with the penalty “assumed.” We even wear the same apron and robes representing priesthood powers that Lucifer wears in the movie. Lucifer threatens to “reign in blood and horror on this earth, buying up popes and priests” so it’s imperative that we obey—how did I miss this direct message of who’s really in control? Now we come to the part of the ceremony when as a uniform mass of blindly obedient sheep, we bow our heads and say “Yes” to the “consecration of all our time, talents, and all that we possess to the Church (rather than to God which is idolatry) for the building up of the Kingdom of God.” There are many documented witnesses who found that this consecration resulted in the justified theft of their valuable assets by church leaders.

      Now, I am observing the “true order” of prayer and I’m angered by the fact that the women have to pull a veil over their faces before they can pray to God. This action of suppression and the “sacred” undergarments that members have to keep on day and night remind me of the Abaya the Moslem women are traditionally conditioned to wear. That I have to go through a Masonic ritual to “come into the presence of God” who taught us to NEVER swear a blood oath “which comes of evil” is ludicrous to me in my now-thinking state. The Celestial room is still beautiful, but cold with hovering attendants waiting to shush occupants that deem to talk louder than a whisper. Conformity must be maintained at all cost.

      The control, precision and facade of the LDS leaders and the combined stress of expected hours of volunteer labor, blind obedience to a prophet that will “never lead you astray,” large families, suppression of women dominated by controlling men who believe in polygamy, is having an affect on the LDS members with Utah leading the nation in depression, rape, violence in the home, child abuse and high divorce rates. [2] 

      Now, as I leave the good ol’ boy’s temple for the last time, complete with “Hollywood” lights staged to inspire, I relish my freedom to be an individual, a spokeswoman for God and to truly know God who loves purity (not perfection), personal revelation, and free agency rather than control.

      It’s not just the leaders of the LDS religion that need to be cleansed, but all controlling religions based upon men’s interpretations. “There is no church in Heaven only truth that Jesus is God” was knowledge given during a profound NDE. Ancient records are also coming forth with the spiritual teachings of Jesus that refute controlling religions and the suppression of women. How else will the world unite in the prophetic Millennial Peace? I now know that God loves all people equally--elitism is not of God!

        Statistics in Utah still reflect a discouraging negative social atmosphere. Latter-day Saints believe Mormonism produces emotional health. It that were true, Utah (which is two-thirds LDS) should have the lowest rates of crime, divorce, and child abuse. Instead they have the highest rates in the nation.

Divorces per 1,000 Population          Utah-4.60    MA-2.40     NY -3.20    NJ-3.0

Murder per 100,000 Population        Utah-3.90    NH-1.70      IO-1.70      ND-0.90

Rape per 100,000 Population            Utah-42.70  NY -23.70   CA-33.40   VA-27.20

*Source US Census Bureau

Domestic violence highest in the nation recorded in 2001 Salt lake Tribune, Feb 17, 2004
"...The 2004 Utah Domestic Violence Annual Report, created by the state Domestic Violence Cabinet Council...In 2001, the report notes, Utah's rate of females murdered by males in one-on-one incidents was 23% higher than the corresponding national rate." Utah also leads the nation in the use of narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine-based drugs, the study found. "It's like Happy Valley here," Cindy Mann said, describing the Salt Lake Valley. "It's a scary place sometimes. People don't talk about their problems. Everything is always rosy. That's how we got ourselves into this mess--we're good at ignoring things."

The New York Times clearly illustrates a recurring problem within the Mormon Church–child abuse. Child abuse is consistently higher in Utah than in the nation as a whole. Its a blight on Mormonism. Utah social workers have been quoted as being "blackly pessimistic" about the problem. All of this flies in the face of the projected image of Mormonism as a society which places the family at the highest level of its concern.

The failure of Mormonism stems from its hidebound structure. This is the religion of polygamy, patriarchy, and Blood Atonement. Such a culture simply doesn't have the ability to wave a wand of psychobabble over the Church and make everything right. Mormon social problems are systemic.