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A distinct endowment ceremony was also performed in the 1830s in the Kirtland Temple, the first temple of the broader Latter Day Saint movement, which includes other smaller churches such as the Community of Christ. The term "endowment" thus has various meanings historically, and within the other branches of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Washing and anointing is a Latter-day Saint practice of ritual purification. It is a key part of the temple endowment ceremony as well as the controversial Second Anointing ceremony practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Mormon fundamentalists. It was also part of the female-only healing rituals among ...
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 temple. [15] A revelation soon followed identifying the location of the temple in Kirtland, Ohio, [ 16 ] and another revelation affirmed that in this building the Lord "design[ed] to endow those [he ...
The Endowment House stood in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah from 1855 to 1889. 1855 – The first building specifically designed for conducting temple rites with ordinance rooms was constructed and called the Endowment House. [31] 1870s – Second anointings began to be performed vicariously for deceased members of the church. [8]: 30
In the Latter Day Saint movement, the second anointing is the pinnacle ordinance of the temple and an extension of the endowment ceremony. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 11 Founder Joseph Smith taught that the function of the ordinance was to ensure salvation , guarantee exaltation , and confer godhood . [ 5 ]
In 2015, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw published a 78-page article entitled "Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances" in which he discusses how Freemasonry in Nauvoo helped prepare the Saints for the temple endowment — both familiarizing them with elements they would later encounter in the Nauvoo temple and providing a blessing to them ...
In 1994, church president Howard W. Hunter encouraged church members to "look to the temple [...] as the great symbol of your membership." [47] When questioned on the subject of symbols in 2005, church president Gordon B. Hinckley said that Latter-day Saints themselves are the best symbols of their religion. [48]
The first building to be designed specifically with actual progressive-style ordinance rooms for presentation of the Endowment was the Endowment House built in 1855 on Temple Square. This structure had the same rooms as the Nauvoo Temple and Council House, including a Garden Room with murals and potted evergreen plants, but the sealing room was ...