Secret Rites and ceremonies of the mormons Pub 1920?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by "Mormons Pub 1920." I'll answer what you might mean and you'll have to clarify further. I mention the "Lectures on Faith" doctrine that became sidelined in 1920 below.

Masonic secret rites and ceremonies are still practiced in all LDS Temples. Members are required to take upon themselves a (satanic) blood oath of secrecy and loyalty "to the building up of the Kingdom of God on the earth" and loyalty to the "church" over God or country. In 1990, the pantomime of slitting our throats, cutting out our hearts, and disemboweling our intestines as ways that we had to "suffer our lives to be taken" as a penalty for talking was taken out of the secret LDS temple ceremony (Masonic riituals and ceremony) due to members finally questioning this practice. It was smoothed over by its seeming elimination. However, the penalty is still in force, but is only "assumed" today as the Masonic (secret oath) ceremony only hints at what we use to have to do during these ceremonies while garbed in white robes and green aprons symbolic of what Lucifer had Adam and Eve put on to "hide their nakedness. No one can talk during these ceremonies and it is touted as so sacred that if we question anything it is due to our not understanding the mysteries of God. Women have to veil their faces since they are not worthy to talk to God directly during the prayer circle. Everyone wears "sacred" and very ugly underwear with Masonic symbols on them; the compass, the square, and two other marks.

Side note: Didn't Christ teach us to never swear by heaven or by our heads?..."but to only say yea, yea, or nay, nay as anything more than this comes of evil?" Christ's spiritual teachings of the equality of women was politically omitted by religious leaders at the Council of Nicea 300+ years after His Resurrection. Christ's true teachings are contained in the divinely preserved Gospels of Thomas, Phillip, and Mary and speak of the equality of women as apostles even as "the Beloved Apostle" whom he loved more than the male apostles who kept falling asleep (spiritually also) on him!

As far as 1920, it was in that year that James Talmadge removed the Lectures on Faith as prominent church records to hide them away, so to speak. Possibly because of many embarassing declarations by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Jediah Grant, and other leaders. For instance, Brigham Young and Jediah Grant reprimanded all of the polygamous wives because not one of them was happy! (Imagine that... Mormons today grow up believing that it is an honor to be a plural wife as this is the true order of heaven!) They also went on to call for Blood Atonement (murder or suicide) of all those who had sinned. Blood Atonement was often part of the "lectures on faith" from the pulpit and possibly seen in the Meadow Massacre attitude of retribution...

Apostle J. M. Grant gave the following remarks on September 21, 1856 in a church sermon, afterwards Brigham Young made similar comments. They called for personal blood atonement and rebuked wives for complaining about polygamy.

"I would ask how many covenant breakers there are in this city and in this kingdom. I believe that there are a great many and if they are covenant breakers we need a place designated, where we can shed their blood... And we have women here who like anything but the celestial law of God; and if they could break asunder the cable of the Church of Christ, there is scarcely a mother in Israel but would do it this day. And they talk it to their husbands, to their daughters, and to their neighbors, and say they have not seen a week's happiness since they became acquainted with that law [plural marriage], or since their husbands took a second wife." Journal of Discourses, vol.4, pp.49-50.