Walter M. Wolfe, during Smoot hearing, claims that was taught in the Endwoment that Adam not made out of the dust of the earth but was generated in the same way as other everyone else.

Date
1906
Type
Book
Source
Walter M. Wolfe
Excommunicated
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Mysteries of the Endowment House and oath of Vengeance of the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Tribune, 1906), 8

Scribe/Publisher
Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co.
People
Brigham Young, Walter M. Wolfe
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

All having been seated, Elohim, or some one in authority comes to the front of the platform and delivers what is known as the sermon before the veil. On Wednesdays, when there are a number of neophytes, the address is very long and tedious; the entire history of the Temple work is repeated, so that the candidates may have a clear understanding of what they have learned. The marks in the veil are also explained with their significance and uses. Especially is it taught that Adam was not made out of the dust of this earth, that he was begotten as any other man is begotten, and that when he came here he brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. I have heard that the sermon was the one delivered by Brigham Young at the dedication of the St. George Temple.

BHR Staff Commentary

Based on this account, Jacob Vidrine Vidrine notes that

It seems that the way the Adam-God Doctrine began to be phased out of the Endowment was initially by only giving the full lecture on Wednesdays, while on other days a “very much shortened” version of the lecture was given (Jacob Vidrine, "The Adam-God Doctrine in the Endowment," One Eternal Round: A Magazine Dedicated to Mormon History and Theology, no. 23 [April 15, 2021]: 9)

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