Msg#: 1698                                         Date: 02-19-95  10:17
  From: Larry Sites                                  Read: Yes    Replied: No
    To: Andrew Conner                                Mark:
  Subj: MORMON GARMENTS

ANDREW CONNER to LARRY SITES on 02-16-95 18:55 re: MORMON GARMENTS

 LS> Why do you have to wear magic undies?
AC>I think it is a part of modesty.
AC>Orthodox Jews also wear similiar garments.

Boy are you in for a suprize. See below. BTW, orthodox Jews wear no 
such things.

AC>It is not magic underwear.
AC>How is that you come to call Mormon Garments, as magic underwear?

The text for the following series was originally derived from a 
booklet written by the author, Chuck Sackett, an ex-LDS member.

                           AUTHOR'S PREFACE

     This text contains the entire series of Mormon Temple
ceremonies, called "Ordinances" and is 100% accurate in the essence
of what is done, and very nearly 100% accurate in the exact wording
of what is said.  This is because this edition was transcribed from a
tape recording made inside the Temple at the actual Endowment
ceremony.  Other ceremonies have been verified by comparing them with
copies of Temple Worker Instruction Books.

  THE GARMENT OF THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD

                               4 MARKS

     Every Mormon who "receives his Endowments" (including all Mormon
Missionaries) is dressed by a temple worker in the "garment of the
holy priesthood" which he is required to wear 24 hours a day, 365
days a year, until he is buried in it.  It is removed only to bathe
and change them, and for certain "public appearance" exceptions.
Most of these have the appearance of old-fashioned "long johns".
     Closer examination reveals a pair of button-holes over the right
breast sewn in the form of a square, reminding the Mormon of
exactness and honor in living up to his temple vows.  Over the left
breast a pair of button-holes in the form of a compass, remind the
Mormon that all truth may be circumscribed into one great whole, and
that all appetites must be kept within certain bounds.  One
button-type hole over the navel, recalls the need of nourishment for
body and soul, and an identical hole over the right knee, signifies
that every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is the
Christ.  In the early Mormon Temple ceremonies some of the marks were
cut into the garment with a small knife while on the patron's body,
thus nicking his flesh and shedding his blood into the garment.  See
Leviticus 19:28, 21:5, Deuteronomy14:1, and Jeremiah 16:6.
     The same four marks are on the veil of the temple in much larger
dimensions.  The Temple Worker tells the patron, as he or she is
being dressed in this garment, that "it will be a shield and a
protection to you from the power of the destroyer until you have
finished your work on the earth, so long as you are true and faithful
to the covenants you make in the temple this day."
     The garment has thus become a magic talisman to the Temple
patron, and is to be his source of protection from the power of Satan
throughout his lifetime.  The patron is instructed that, when the
garment is worn out, he must cut the priesthood markings off of it
and burn them.  The garment then can be used for rags or any other
purpose.  Thus we see that the magical "power" is in the Priesthood
markings.
     The Christian is taught that his protection from Satan comes in
a much different form from this Priestcraft occultic talisman magic.
Christians, in overcoming Satan's attacks, are to put on something
more substantial than magic underwear with Masonic markings.  It is
fully explained in Ephesians 6:12-18, and we highly recommend this
form of protection to all readers.