Ann Eliza Young quotes Brigham as describing the endowment as "Celestial Masonry."

Date
1876
Type
Book
Source
Ann Eliza Young
Excommunicated
Critic
Hearsay
2nd Hand
Reference

Ann Eliza Young, Wife No. 19 Or, the Story of a Life of Bondage (Hartford, Conn: Dustin, Gilman, and Co., 1876), 371

Scribe/Publisher
Dustin, Gilman, and Co.
People
Ann Eliza Young
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

It is claimed that the mysterious rites were taken from Masonry, and that the Endowments are a direct outgrowth of the secret society. Brigham Young delights, I know, to speak of it as "Celestial Masonry," but I am very sure all good Masons would repudiate it and its teachings.

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