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DISC-0088 / ITEM-0007
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · United States / worldwide
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Temple ceremony including covenants / signs and tokens.
Modified
Provisional: no dated status evidence is linked.
Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
Veil instructions: page, selected video frames and English automatic captions inspected; no full audio review.
Upload dated 20 August 2012; recording date is not established.
Opened the uploader’s video page on 2026-11-04, checked its 20 August 2012 publication date, inspected selected frames and read the entire exported English auto-generated transcript. The frame at 04:26 shows a robed figure and veil but does not independently verify the spoken ritual. No full audio review, original-file capture, editing assessment or independent setting confirmation was completed.
Length shown as 05:33. The uploader describes hidden-camera footage of endowment veil instructions. Content claims below are explicitly about the auto-generated captions, which contain recognition errors. A transcript-export hash identifies that derivative, not the video. Filming date and temple are not established here.
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Streamed frames and metadata only; no original video file captured, so no video hash or byte count is asserted.
Local browser transcript export captured on the inspection date; no public transcript-file URL recorded. Caption errors include substitutions for priesthood terms. This derivative does not verify the speaker or exact recording wording.
These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
Penalty gestures were removed from the endowment ceremony.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Only one source recorded so far; contemporary press reports would make it independently corroborated. The 1990 press report SRC-0047 lists other changes (CLM-0041) but does not mention the penalties.
In April 1990 the church dropped from the temple ceremony the vow in which women pledged obedience to their husbands, the wearing of face veils by women, and a portrayal of non-Mormon clergy as hirelings of Satan.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked against the archived report on 2026-11-04. A church spokeswoman declined to discuss the ceremony beyond general terms. The Tanners' 1990 book (SRC-0013) also covers these changes but has not been read.
The church's First Presidency says a dedicated temple is the most holy place of worship and that its ordinances are sacred and are not discussed outside a holy temple; it adds that details of temple work, including its language, have been adjusted periodically and will continue to be.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked against the statement on the Church News site on 2026-11-04. The church describes the ceremony as sacred rather than secret.
The video’s automatic captions associate four veil marks with corresponding garment marks and explain their symbolism.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Read the exported English ASR captions. This is a caption-content claim; transcription errors and recording authenticity remain unassessed.
The captions identify token names using the initiate’s new name, a first given name and the Son of God.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Automatic captions, without a complete audio comparison. No claim about every historical or present-day endowment version.
The captions describe a further token received through the veil, repeated back, followed by admission through a handclasp.
Contradicting sources: none recorded.
The exact name of the final token is not spoken in this instructional clip’s captions. A selected frame does not authenticate the whole rite.
SRC-0098 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.SRC-0098 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.SRC-0098 · source_rights_unknown: The source text's rights have not been established.ARTF-0003 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.ITEM-0007 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
Penalty gestures were removed from the ceremony in 1990.