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Date: March 16, 2011 10:30AM
http://masonicmoroni.com/index.htmlWe have the true Masonry. The Masonry of today is received from apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing that is correct, but we have the real thing.
-HEBER C. KIMBALL, Manuscript History of Brigham Young, unpublished, November 13, 1858, LDS Church Archives. Quoted in Stanley B. Kimball's Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch & Pioneer.
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Many have joined the Masonic institution. This seems to have been a stepping stone or preparation for something else, the true origin of Masonry. This I have also seen and rejoice in it.
-Joseph Fielding, Diary (1843-1846), Church Archives cited in "`They Might Have Known He Was Not a Fallen Prophet' --The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding" Transcribed and edited by Andrew F. Ehat. BYU Studies 19 (Winter 1979).
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A comment made by Elder Marvin J. Ballard. (Unlike the others above, Elder Ballard was not a Mason.)
What is masonry? Why, a fragment of the old truth coming down perhaps from Solomon's temple of ancient days, and but a fragment, as Christianity is but a fragment of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was only to be had and enjoyed by those who hold the holy priesthood. The prophet Elijah revealed these truths; he possessed them anciently and he gave them in their perfectness, and simplicity and purity to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
-Elder Marvin J. Ballard (President Northwestern States Mission.), General Conference Reports, October 1913/124
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Also, please note the Compass V, Square L, and Level _
which can be found on Mormon Garments, as well as on the veil in the temple.