The apron Lucifer wears in the LDS temple ceremony isn't in Genesis — it's Masonic. Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in 1842, and seven weeks later, the endowment appeared using the same signs.
Hosts Jess and Hannah trace Joseph Smith's rushed 1842 Masonic initiation under Grand Master Abraham Jonas, the pre-1990 temple penalties and their exact Masonic parallels, the Five Points of Fellowship at the veil, the Grand Hailing Sign of Distress and its link to Joseph's last words at Carthage, the Hiram Abiff legend, and the 1826 disappearance of William Morgan — whose widow later became one of Joseph's plural wives. The apron was never decoration. It's the ceremony's own lesson in spotting a borrowed credential, aimed everywhere except at the man who wrote it.
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