clasped hands LDS endowment


INTRODUCTION

Why this website?
Site contents
About the endowment


THE CEREMONY

The Initiatory
The Endowment Proper
 The Creation
 The Garden
 The Telestial World
 The Terrestrial World
 The Veil


OTHER TEMPLE RITES

Baptism for the dead
Sealings
Second anointing


FOR FURTHER STUDY

Timeline
Historical documents
Masonic parallels
The endowment on film
Garments & temple clothes
Suggested readings

Many of the documents archived below can be found also on other websites; however, I have found that versions on other sites often contain copyists' errors. By contrast, documents which appear on my site have been carefully checked against photocopies of the originals (whenever possible).

As elsewhere on this site, I have omitted from these documents specific descriptions of the signs, tokens, keywords, and penalties. Omissions are indicated by [bracketed italic type].


THE ENDOWMENT

Current Texts (1990 Endowment, 2005 Initiatory)
Initiatory
Welcome & Intro Creation Garden Telestial Terrestrial Veil

Side-by-Side Comparisons (highlighting 1990/2005 revisions)
Initiatory
Welcome & Intro Creation Garden Telestial Terrestrial Veil

Past Accounts
1846 1847 1879 1931  
Lecture at the Veil, 1877


SECOND ANOINTINGS
Heber and Vilate Kimball, 1846
Brigham and Mary Ann Young, 1846


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