By Peter Levenda
The Angel and the Sorcerer: The outstanding tale of the Occult Origins of Mormonism and the increase of Mormons in American Politics
Based on Levenda’s examine into Mormonism, Freemasonry, and esoteric societies during the last thirty years, this e-book is meant for an viewers that's thinking about Mormonism in gentle of the truth that at first of 2012 there have been Mormons operating for the GOP presidential nomination opposed to Roman Catholics.
There has been a lot confusion within the media over a variety of Mormon phenomena, equivalent to the “magic underwear,” polygamy “Big Love” sort, and masses else. This publication examines the ideals and divulges the proof of Mormon principles and perform, beginning with its founder Joseph Smith Jr. who started his spiritual profession with rituals of ceremonial magic and divination, and ended it with Freemasonry, the biggest defense force within the kingdom of Illinois, a candidacy for US president, and assassination. Levenda additionally mentioned the Mormons connection to Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and Watergate in addition to the function of Mormons in modern Presidential elections.
This is the interesting tale of a simply American faith, its occult origins, and the increase of Mormons in American politics.
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The Mormon apologist above-mentioned does not dispute the claim that Joseph Smith was familiar with the Captain Kidd tales, nor does he address the Comoros/Cumorah or Moroni/Moroni coincidence (although others do2). 4 Mormon apologists usually want to point out that the milieu in which Smith was raised was an amalgam of normative Christian religion with “folk magic” practices, such as the divining rod, and that it would have been unusual for Smith not to have been involved in such practices or to have been aware of them.
And that is where this conversation about Mormonism must begin. Evangelical Christians, Roman Catholics—and Americans in general—should ask their political candidates (and especially their presidential candidates) whether or not they are true believers in their respective religions. Had Richard Nixon been a true Quaker, it is entirely possible that Cambodia would never have been bombed and that the Vietnam War would have ended years earlier. Had Ronald Reagan truly believed in the apocalypse and the Second Coming of Jesus, he might have hurried it along with a few well-placed missiles.
As can be seen, this demon appears in a quasi-animal form with a tail, cloven hoofs, and horns which was a typical concept of the Devil at the time. In European magic, toads, lizards and other amphibians were considered representatives of the Devil or different manifestations of the Devil himself. Buried treasure was their domain, and they had to be propitiated in some way before they would release their bounty. Often, this required a pact. In the popular imagination, this would be an agreement with the Devil, signed in the sorcerer's blood.
