Ties Between Freemasonry & LDS Temple (Cheryl Bruno 4 of 4)

What are the connections between freemasonry & the LDS Temple endowment? Cheryl Bruno discusses the latest findings in her book "Method Infinite." Check out our conversation...



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Freemasonry & Mormonism

Interview



 GT  00:31  I feel bad because we have not talked about your amazing book on Freemasonry. I didn't prepare you that that was going to be a question, but is that something that we can talk about?



Cheryl  00:44  Yes, I'm not saying I remember every date on that either.



GT  00:49  That's okay, because it's been a few years since I read that book too. Do you remember when it was published? Um,



Cheryl  00:55  2022.



GT  00:56  okay, so it's been two years now.



Cheryl  00:58  Wow! I remembered a date.



GT  00:59  There you go. You wrote that with Nick [Literski] and Joe Swick. There we go. Why don't you introduce us to the topic of Freemasonry? I've heard an argument that Joseph introduced Freemasonry, because there are all these secrets. It kind of does relate to polygamy in the fact that, okay, I'm going to swear you to secrecy for masonry. Then now you have to keep the polygamy secret too. What do you think of that argument?



Cheryl  01:39  In our William Marks book, we do talk about these. We have a chapter which talks about the several organizations that Joseph Smith set up to induce loyalty in his followers. One of them is Freemasonry. One of them is the Quorum of the Anointed, the Council of 50, even the Nauvoo Legion, the Danites, those are all organizations that came together to really that were secretive. People who were loyal to Joseph Smith could come together and have a community. I think Mike Quinn maybe did a study of who the people were, who were connected in at least, like, three or four ways through those organizations. There were a lot of them, and that's your core group.



GT  02:30  William Marks would have been a Freemason as well.



Cheryl  02:34  Yes, he was a Freemason, and he was in all of the different groups.



GT  02:36  The Quorum of the Anointed.



Cheryl  02:39  Not the Danites; He wasn't in Danites.



GT  02:41  Okay.



Cheryl  02:42  He was definitely Council of 50, Quorum of Anointed, Freemason, Nauvoo Legion.



GT  02:46  Quorum of Anointed would be those that had received the endowment. Is that right?



Cheryl  02:49  Right.



GT  02:50  Okay. Do you agree with the argument that Joseph introduced Freemasonry to the Church to help people keep secrets about polygamy?



Cheryl  03:05  Not so much. I think that loyalty was a part of it, but not necessarily polygamy that I see. To me, he was fascinated. Joseph was fascinated by Freemasonry and the way that it taught like ancient truths. He was very into presenting things in a way that was Masonic. He liked the Christian view of Freemasonry looking back at the Old Testament from a Christian lens. I think he really brought that into Mormonism a lot. So he was just fascinated by Freemasonry. I think he felt that Freemasonry was a true principle that had become apostate over the years. This is what we talk about in the book, a lot. In Joseph's mind, there was a true masonry and a spurious masonry. It was almost the same as he thought about Christianity, where, over the years,