Entries by MormonBox

A Bit on Moral Purity

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What is purity? Much like “truth”, purity is another word which often is hijacked and convoluted by society and/or organized religion. In a religious context, purity is most often associated with innocence, virginity or sexual abstinence.  The suggestion by religion often is that one who is “pure” is one who has not been “corrupted” by […]

The Mormon Temple Ceremony and FreeMasonry

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Freemasonry’s Ancient Origins The idea that masonic ritual originated in the 15th or 17th centuries is an ignorant one. Although it might be said that the modern freemasonry organization, as it is presently constituted, is a modern invention– much of the symbolism, ritual and tradition come from far older traditions. Many aspects can be definitively […]

Commentary on the LDS Articles of Faith

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LDS Articles of Faith with my commentary 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. All of these are profound esoteric symbols of which volumes could be written. They are not simplistic dogmatic statements of one sided mortal-like individuals. God is the Creator and […]

Death… How to deal with it.

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I read a facebook post that made me think a bit about death today. Its a topic I’v ruminated on many times over the past decade or so. A facebook post of a friend’s sister who lost their teenage daughter unexpectedly made the pain of death real again for me. The Pain Its not rare […]

The Lower & Higher Priesthoods

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This article is convoluted. Rewrite. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction… (James 1:27)”   Introduction Organized earthly religion is a schoolmaster or preparatory gospel that tries to bring us up to a higher form or truer, heavenly religion; which is essentially a harmonic, […]

The Holographic Nature of DNA, the Brain & the Universe

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ReBlogged from lightworkers.org THE GENETIC ODE The secret of life! How long mankind has yearned to know its essence and how to extend lifespan and improve health. The discovery of the DNA helix in 1953, by Watson and Crick revealed the shape of this magic molecule. The following 50 years of research has directly led […]

Hagoth, The Book of Mormon and the Polynesians

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There are many quotes by LDS Apostles & Prophets concerning the relationship between modern Polynesian people, modern Mesoamerican people and Book of Mormon peoples. Apart from quotes by Joseph Smith and his pre-1844 contemporaries (quotes of which are covered in my Joseph Smith Quotes on Book of Mormon Geography article) the one of the first […]