may 4, 1842 - Endowment Instituted

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Joseph institutes the endowment at Red Brick store with men who were also masons. It includes tokens and signs of the penalties from masonry, (he had been inducted 6 or 7 weeks earlier) including:

Stage 1 : "my throat ... be cut from ear to ear, and my tongue torn out by its roots;"
Stage 2 : "our breasts ... be torn open, our hearts and vitals torn out and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field;"
Stage 3 : "our body ... be cut asunder and all your bowels gush out."

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