Without Disclosing My True Identity
NOTES
(^1) See chapter 37.
(^2) BOM, Alma 12:10.
(^3) The presentation of the LDS endowment is similar to a play acted out by men and women
(mostly men) representing certain symbolic religious characters. The more modern temple patrons
watch a projected movie instead of a play.
(^4) Introduction, n. 56.
(^5) Christopher, Sacred, not Secret—The [Authorized and] Official Guide In Understanding the LDS
Temple Endowment (Salt Lake City: Worldwide United, 2008). Referred to as SNS.
(^6) See chapter 37.
(^7) The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Containing Revelations
Given to Joseph Smith, the Prophet, with Some Additions by his Successors in the Presidency of the Church (Salt
Lake City: Intellectual Reserve, 1981) 38:32. Referred to as D&C. (This was the “endowment from on
high” that the people were promised throughout the history of the LDS Church.)
(^8) Compare BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^9) Compare BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^10) SNS, 51.
(^11) The modern LDS Church changed the original endowment in 1990 and omitted Adam’s
confused question and Lucifer’s response.
(^12) SNS, 12–14, 16.
(^13) Matthew 25:31–46. (Consider the placement of people on the right and left hand of Christ.)
(^14) BOM, Alma 12:31. Wherefore, he gave commandments unto men, they having first
transgressed the first commandments as to things which were temporal, and becoming as Gods,
knowing good from evil, placing themselves in a state to act, or being placed in a state to act
according to their wills and pleasures, whether to do evil or to do good.
(^15) “Section III On Priesthood” of the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph Smith,
Jr., Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of
God (Kirtland: Williams & Co., 1835) 82.
(^16) Whitmer, 64, emphasis added.
(^17) Whitmer, 49.
(^18) BOM, Moroni 8:18.
(^19) The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 13 (15 Nov. 1851): 339. “I teach them correct principles,
and they govern themselves.”
(^20) Whitmer, 64.
(^21) The Pearl of Great Price: A Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph
Smith (Salt Lake City: LDS Church, 1976) Joseph Smith—History 1:34. Referred to as PGP and JSH.
(^22) SNS, 50–51.
(^23) SNS, 59.
(^24) George Cochrane Hazelton, The National Capitol (New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1907) 22.
(^25) DHC, 4:550–1.
(^26) S. H. Goodwin, Mormonism and Masonry: Origins, Connections and Coincidences Between
Mason and Mormon Temple/Templar Rituals (1920; Whitefish: Kessinger, 1992).
(^27) Steven L. Shields, Divergent Paths of the Restoration: A History of the Latter Day Saint
Movement (Los Angeles: Restoration Research, 1982) 29.
(^28) During November 1839, Joseph Smith met with U.S. President Martin Van Buren to discuss the
Saints’ grievances. (See DHC, 4: XXVI, 80, 89 and chapters 2 and 3; Also see DHC, 5:393, DHC, 6:65, 90, 157,
188.)
(^29) BOM, Alma 10:27.