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  1. Great site! Two comment here:

    1) There’s a wonderful post over at Times and Seasons by Ben Huff drawing parallels (and distinctions) between the Temple ceremony and Catholic Mass as an aid to helping outsiders understand what goes on in the temple (see http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4350).

    2) Drawing upon the Jewish concept that the increasing levels of holiness and approach to God in the tabernacle/temple represents a reversal of the fall of Adam (including the tree of life — the menorah — in the Holy Place), there is a striking amount of temple imagery and concepts in the tree of life visions that Lehi and (especially) Nephi have. ..bruce..

  2. I think it is great that we have such parallels between temple ceremony and modern life. I was thinking about what temple ritual must be like as I sat clothed in my cap and gown during a pre-graduation ceremony, and it struck me how there were some interesting, albeit small, similarities between the two.

    Of course, I’m just going off what I have learned about the temple from proxy baptisms and reading material such as that of Elder Packer on temple worship.
    Great post.

  3. You said that we don’t normally think of the Book of Mormon as having Temple-ness in it. I would disagree. I think it is PACKED with Temple references.

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