Catalogue / DISC-0102DISC-0102 / ITEM-0059
Second anointing: Phillips’s participant account and limits on discussion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · United States / worldwide
Disclosure date 2008 Date precision Year Disclosure method Defector testimony Extent Partial Record review Reviewed View in explorer ↗ This record as JSON
Restricted material and access A described temple ordinance involving washing, anointing and a private spousal blessing.
Material type Initiatory rite Restricted to Invited couples in the participant account; recipients charged not to disclose receipt, and teachers directed not to discuss the ordinance Restriction mechanism controlled_access Stated reason Phillips attributes secrecy to limiting demand and comparisons among members; this is his report of an explanation given to him Tradition origins 1830 Recorded practice status Unknown
Status as of Not recorded Status claims Not recorded Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers Invitation, secrecy instructions, ceremony description and memory caveat in archived transcription.
Not an independently authenticated original script or a 2002 recording.
The source Author Tom Phillips; transcription preserved by the B. H. Roberts Foundation Original publication 2008 Linked edition Not recorded Format Testimony Provenance defector_account → archival_collection Rights of source work Copyrighted Identifiers Not recorded Source content hash Not recorded Read the archived transcription’s invitation, preparation, ceremony and recollection caveat. The archive attributes the account to Phillips, dated 21 January 2008. His admission of consulting published accounts was retained; no independent witness to his claimed 2002 event or original contemporaneous recording was inspected.
The account identifies 19 May 2002 as the ceremony date. It is a first-person retrospective exposure, not an original officiator’s script. An attempted MormonThink PDF retrieval failed TLS hostname validation; no bypass or hash of that PDF is claimed.
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Artifact ID ARTF-0021 Inspection Partial Inspected parts Archived transcription: invitation, preparation, ceremony description and memory caveat SHA-256 cc38897adf8fe0c5814202a35f2bab4ae5422e2194f2fa3bdc0621de65bf212c IPFS CID Not recorded BitTorrent info-hash Not recorded Complete HTML response captured; selected account sections inspected. Not an original 2002 recording or a hash of the failed MormonThink PDF.
Claims about this item These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
CLM-0230 · Content Phillips says the invitation required secrecy even from his children, with concern about demand and comparisons among members offered as reasons.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Phillips’s recollection of 19 May 2002, published 2008 Locators SRC-0112: Invitation Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
A participant’s report of instructions and their stated rationale; the official manual does not independently verify this conversation.
SRC-0112: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. SRC-0112: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0021: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0231 · Content He describes an officiator washing his feet and anointing him, and anointing his wife with queen-and-priestess language.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Phillips’s recollection of 19 May 2002, published 2008 Locators SRC-0112: At the Temple; ordinances I and II, part one Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked the cited passage. Attribution and historical limits are retained; no independent corroboration or present-day applicability is established.
SRC-0112: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. SRC-0112: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0021: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0232 · Content He describes a private second part in which his wife washed his feet and pronounced a blessing with her hands on his head.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Phillips’s recollection of 19 May 2002, published 2008 Locators SRC-0112: Ordinance of Second Anointings, part two Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked the cited passage. Attribution and historical limits are retained; no independent corroboration or present-day applicability is established.
SRC-0112: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. SRC-0112: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0021: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0233 · Content Phillips understood the ordinance as assuring exaltation, with stated exceptions, rather than merely repeating conditional promises.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Phillips’s recollection of 19 May 2002, published 2008 Locators SRC-0112: Preparation; ordinance II, part one Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
His doctrinal interpretation and recollection, not a finding that every recipient or current official teaching gives the same interpretation.
SRC-0112: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. SRC-0112: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0021: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0234 · Other Phillips warns that nearly six years had elapsed and that he reviewed published accounts to refresh his memory.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Phillips’s recollection of 19 May 2002, published 2008 Locators SRC-0112: At the Temple, paragraph immediately before ordinance I Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
This caveat limits treatment of his wording as verbatim liturgy and its independence from earlier descriptions.
SRC-0112: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. SRC-0112: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0021: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0235 · Content The church teacher manual directs teachers not to discuss or answer questions about the second anointing.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period Online chapter inspected 2026-11-04 Locators SRC-0113: chapter 19, Introduction caution Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Direct official textual restriction. It does not establish performance frequency, the details of Phillips’s ceremony or that the restriction exists because misconduct is being concealed.
SRC-0113: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead. ARTF-0022: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. Evidence qualifications SRC-0112 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.SRC-0112 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.ARTF-0021 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
Item notes Scope basis: participant-reported secrecy and actual ceremony content in SRC-0112, plus the independently issued discussion restriction in SRC-0113. The manual does not authenticate the details of Phillips’s ceremony. His account is retrospective and memory was refreshed from published descriptions.
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