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What is your perception of the man Adam?
Is he the first of our "race", whatever that is intended to mean?
Is it a calling? Were there multiple Adams? Do you speculate that there is anything to the Adam God concept which Brigham Young taught? If so, what part? Is it simply a myth, showing rebirth by submission to the will of God? We are each to imagine ourselves as an Adam, what does this mean?
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But that doesn't preclude the idea that the story of Adam is not symbolic of mankind in general. That's be pretty hard to argue, given that his name means mankind. As for the Adam God theory . . . I don't believe Adam is the same person as our Heavenly Father. He is the mortal progenitor of humankind, but not the spiritual progenitor.
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Please forgive the nit pick.
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I could go off on this subject for a loooooooooooong time, but I'm in a bit of a time crunch this morning.
I can do a series of posts on this after my defense. I could take up Goffmann, Schiller (who you're probably familiar with, Arch,), Brecht, Innis, Virilio, Benjamin, Carey, Schechner, Burke...
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Most say they find it powerful. That is what you're supposed to say.
It has a great spirit, and if you study ancient Egypt or media presentation, you can find and see the sympbolism. You're a classicist so it appeals. However, I know many, many members who don't find the endowment ceremony meaningful at all, but enjoy the trip to the celestial room, which is and are beautiful. To enjoy the endowment ceremony, one must work at it. And invest lots of study in its history, which we are not supposed to discuss. If and when they revise the ceremony, how would they revise it?
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