Freemasonry, Joseph Smith, and the Hidden Architecture of Mormon Temple Ritual Introduction: A Brotherhood Within a Brotherhood On the night of March 15, 1842, a cold Illinois wind off the Mississippi cut through the streets of Nauvoo, Illinois — the ambitious, half-built city that Joseph Smith Jr. intended to be the crown jewel of his … Continue reading Tokens, Penalties, and Handshakes: The Masonic DNA of the LDS Temple Ceremony