Professor William J. Hamblin has offered some good starting points in considering the relationship between the ancient Israelite temple ritual and the modern day LDS temple endowment. It is from this vantage point that we should approach trying to understand these ancient ritual systems and the connections they might have with the Latter-day Saints temple [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Temples Today
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Also tagged ark of the covenant, art, atonement, clothing, endowment, esoteric, exoteric, gallery, garments, holy of holies, holy place, image, incense, israelites, prayer, rite, ritual, rituals, sacrifice, theophany, uplifted hands, william hamblin
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September 26, 2012 – 10:15 am
I came across an interesting blog post the other day, that gave eight philosophical questions that man believes we may never solve. One of the questions is, “is our universe real?” I researched many different facets of this question in my 45 page paper, “A Modern Worldview from Plato’s Cave.” In this blog post it [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Tidbits
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Also tagged children, christ, glory, greek, life, light, philosophy, questions, transhumanism, universe, worship
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September 1, 2012 – 2:38 pm
One of the most interesting presentations, at least to me, at this year’s 2012 FAIR Conference in Sandy, UT, was Don Bradley’s “Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages,” for obvious reasons; it dealt with the temple. I have not been acquainted with Don Bradley’s work before, so this was an excellent introduction. Bradley [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged ark of the covenant, book of mormon, don bradley, endowment, history, holy of holies, interpreters, interview, joseph smith, law of moses, lost 116 pages, nauvoo, ordinances, presence, questions, restoration, revelation, tabernacle, test
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The following is a photo of a linen and wool screen curtain (velum) that comes from a monastery at Antinoë (Antinopolis), Egypt, and dates from the 5th-6th century. It is likely an artifact of the early Coptic Christians. It depicts a praying couple beneath an apse in a church or temple, with a Coptic inscription written in [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged altar, apse, art, boaz, building, cap, christian, clothing, columns, egypt, hands, jachin, photo, prayer, praying, solomon, temples, uplifted hands
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William Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson have a regular religion column in the Deseret News. Their latest article is entitled “Pilgrimage: A sacred journey in search of God.” They point out that many religions have their own types of pilgrimages towards a holy place, shrine, or temple, where the pilgrim seeks to connect with God. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices
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Also tagged cap, clothing, daniel c. peterson, dome of the rock, eastern orthodox, fasting, holy place, jerusalem, kiev, offerings, photo, pilgrim, pilgrimage, prayer, rituals, robe, robes, sacrifice, temple mount, tokens, white, william hamblin
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