Joseph Smith once said: "No man knows my history."
This flippant statement would later return to haunt him.
Smith, a semiliterate farm boy that left school at just thirteen, would go onto join the Masonic lodge two years before he died and progressed to a Master Mason (third degree.) However, he would later be excommunicated from the lodge for stealing ritual secrets and incorporating them into Mormonism.
"When Smith's pockets were searched after his murder, a Masonic talisman known as a Jupiter stone was found" and shortly before he died, he cried out to his mob, "Is there no help for the widows son," a Masonic plea for mercy (Worrall, pg. 80.)
Some Mormon historians cast doubt on this part of Smith's life and try in vain, to suppress this shoddy and devious side to Smith's life.
If one reads Simon Worrall's book about one of the worlds greatest forgers, Mormon Mark Hoffman, one will see just have far the Mormon hierarchy, including their top man, continually went to lie, deceive and hide devastating documents about Smith's true nature.
Hoffman also saw as proof that his church was false, by the way in which he had been able to cheat his superiors into spending hundred of thousands of dollars purchasing his forgeries, while his church taught that their twelve apostles and their leader were not only in daily contact with the Holy Spirit, but were also supposed to be infallible.
If this was so, why then didn't they detect Hoffman's cunning antics?
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