William Wyl notes that JS saw Freemasonry as holding the "key" of his endowment.

Date
1886
Type
Book
Source
William Wyl
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Unsourced
Reference

William Wyl, Joseph Smith, the prophet, his family and his friends. A study based on facts and documents (Salt Lake City: Tribune Print, 1886), 146-147

Scribe/Publisher
The Salt Lake Tribune
People
William Wyl
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Had he not prostituted the ordinances and secrets of the order by mimicking and burlesquing them in his endowment and proclaiming that he had found among the wondrous secrets of that old white hat, the crowning 'key' lost by the Masons, for long ages,; so that, like his religion, his masonry was the true and only original Jacobs? HIs beastly desires and reckless impudence were even greater than his cunning.

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