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For about 130 years (between 1847 and 1978) all LDS endowment-related temple ordinances were denied to all Black women and men in a controversial temple racial restriction. [65] As of 2023, all temple ordinances including the endowment continue to be denied for any lesbian , gay , or bisexual person who is in a same-sex marriage or homosexual ...
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 ]
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 Latter-day Saints until at least the 1940s.
Woman in temple clothing circa the 1870s, depicted with a knife symbolically referenced in the penalty to allow ones body to "be cut asunder and all your bowels gush out." [1] In Mormonism, a penalty is a specified punishment for breaking an oath of secrecy after receiving the Nauvoo endowment ceremony. Adherents promised they would submit to ...
The first building to have ordinance rooms, designed to conduct the Endowment, was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842.Using canvas, Smith divided the store's large, second-floor room into "departments," which represented "the interior of a temple as much as circumstances would permit" (Anderson & Bergera, Quorum of Anointed, 2).
Dressed in temple clothing, circle members sang, prayed, bore testimonies, and listened to brief sermons. Led by the Stake President, the group would then stand together in a large circle and rehearse parts of the endowment ceremony. A prayer roll would be placed on an altar and a prayer would be offered in behalf of the stake's needy and ...
However, adherents covenant with God to accept the law of consecration as part of the temple endowment ceremony. In the 1970s, LDS Church apostle Bruce R. McConkie stated that "[t]he law of consecration is that we consecrate our time, our talents, and our money and property to the cause of the Church: such are to be available to the extent they ...