Have had most of the other temple symbolisms explained to me. Still wondering about the baker's caps. And the string hanging down? That must represent something too?
Cymorg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The thinking caps... > Helmets of God.
Is that really what they're about? Odd-looking thinking caps. Odd-looking helmets of God. If men must wear Godly helmets I'd imagine them to be much more manly & Godly. How can men put those on for the first time, look at their buddies around them, and not question it? Or snort-laugh or something??
Lenina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Those hats look a little less embarrassing than > the flimsy baker caps anyway.
The garb worn by the participants in the prayer circles conducted in the second story of the Masonic lodge at Nauvoo were closer to the Israelite priestly originals. The LDS fashion designers are getting sloppy in these, the latter days.
I think this has to do with the sacred mushroom rituals the old church used to practice. Look at some of those old paintings and it shows a bunch of mushroom heads getting high as a kite.
Yes, they tripped their balls off and saw god and now we have these stupid morg cult members wearing stupid mushroom hats while performing stupid masonic rituals.
Oh gimme-a-break. That silliness has nothing to do with Paul's admonitions for spiritual vigilance. He probably had a Roman guard standing close by when he wrote it. Roman soldiers were hardly sissies.
I was taught by my BYU professor father that the 3 loops on the hat represented the Godhead, the string was revelation and connects to the 3 sections on the shoulder representing the 1st presidency (which are subdivided into 4 sections each to symbolize the 12 Apostles). The flat top was never explained to me.
I think it represents the control the church has over you. You will put on a hat that makes you look like a clown to your wife. You will do this to please your church. It's humiliating, but you will grit your teeth and put that goofy thing on in order to show your loyalty to the church.
At the same time, she will cover her face when told. I'm guessing that God can't handle the sight of a womans face during a prayer. I can't imagine any other reason.
So there you are. She's in a Burka, and you're in a clown hat.
The current idea in anthropology is that ritual symbols have no meaning at all. It's just the way things are done until someone changes how things are done - which is also a common element of rituals.
That doesn't mean that people won't attach meaning to the symbolism. I've heard it said that the ribbon that ties the hat to the robe represents Jacob's ladder. More likely, though, it serves to keep the robe from slipping off the shoulder.
Basically it all means squat. That's why you're not supposed to talk about it.
I think the fact that the stupid hat gives men height and elevates them above women says it all---can't have women thinking they are anything but the lower half. This could have happened out of conscious planning, but most likely just came about because this is the way the cult thinks---men are elevated, next to God, and women, well, just are not. And, by G.., they best keep realizing this is the way the Lard intended it!!! (sayeth the 15)
It's supposed to be a representation of the kind of squarish wool cap that was worn by the Scottish Rite Masonic Branch. Their cap actually looks like something from the Middle Ages, which it is, and would have been worn by a craftsman.
Mormonism then decided to turn the cap white, and to make it out of the cheapest materials possible, until it looked completely ridiculous.
They also wore an apron, that was designed to represent a carpenters apron, which it basically was. Only, instead of making it out of the cheapest materials possible, these were engraved, and look pretty good.
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Yes, since the Mormon temple rites were taken straight from Masonry, just look towards Masonry to get a hint of where the symbols originated. Joseph Smith just tweaked them a little to make them fit his Mormonism.