Cooper / Tier 3 — Freemasonry and the Working Orders / religious-body
Mormon Church
Where each worldview places it
"Just another branch of the old mystery religion of Babylon" and of the Illuminati[1]. Its temple rites are Masonic, it has three degrees, blood oaths, a pyramid hierarchy and godhood as the carrot[2]. It aims at worldwide theocratic communism, the "United Order", after a crisis in which the church "saves" the Constitution "hanging by a thread" (H30, reading Decker and Hunt's The God Makers). "In no way, shape, or form can the Mormon Church be called Christian"[3].
- Aliases
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsLDSMormonismMormondomAmerican Zioninvisible empirethe Secret Kingdom
- Controls / directs
- Utah ("already a theocracy")the Los Angeles Times ("mostly owned", per Cooper). It infiltrated the CIA (via returned missionaries and BYU) and the FBI, influenced the MX Missile decision, and killed Mormon Members (blood atonement). It opposes the Federal Government (the oath of vengeance)[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- Its successors and allies are Mystery Babylon, the Illuminati, Freemasonry, the Rose Cross Order and Zionism. It is owned by the Corporation of the President and controlled by The Brethren and the First Presidency[4]
- Lineage
- Masonic temple rites → Mormon temple[3]; the Templar cord custom[5]; founded by Joseph Smith[6]; the Nauvoo Lodge installed three weeks before Smith's revelation of the political kingdom (1844)[3]
- Dates
- 1834
- 1844
- 1870s (Orderville)
- 1884 (Elder Lunt)
- after 1930 (oaths removed)
- 1977 (Gilmore)
- 1978 (priesthood opened to blacks)
- 1980-08-21 (Decker letter)[3]
- Places
- Salt Lake City (the 28-story headquartersTemple Squarethe Salt Dome)UtahNauvooIndependence, Missouri (Zion)Kolob (their God's home)Provo (BYU)
- Key events
- 1844: Council of Fifty, and Smith crowned king
- pre-statehood: open blood atonement until the threat of the U.S. Army
- 1977: Gary Gilmore shot by firing squad, legalized blood atonement by the Utah State Legislature[3]
- Members / notable people
- Joseph SmithBrigham YoungJohn TaylorHeber C. KimballJedediah M. GrantJoseph Fielding SmithBruce R. McConkieElder LuntBo Gritz (Temple Mormon). Critics: Ed Decker and Dave Hunt, Saints Alive, Sonia Johnson, Jeffrey Kaye, J.D. Williams, Klaus J. Hansen[7]
- Author's claims · 5
- 01It teaches that Christ and Lucifer are twins[8] and that Jesus is Lucifer's spirit brother[3].
- 02"Most Mormons are Masons". It publicly condemns Masonry "yet performs the same temple rites"[9].
- 03Its temple ceremony teaches "that Christ had his chance on earth and failed, and that it is Lucifer's turn"[10].
- 04It is "a white Aryan racist organization", and "a great part" of the Zionism-fostering network[6].
- 05"We are discussing the hierarchy of the Mormon Church, not Mormons"[3].