Monument Hill Inscription Insight

From: Ken MacGray 
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 97 18:59:30 -0500
Subject: Monument Hill Inscription Insight

(This came to me today regarding the inscription on the Aaronic Order
Monument found atop Monument Hill, overlooking Hancock Summit along
Highway 375...  -Ken)

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Subject:     Aaronic Order... you asked...
Sent:        3/23/97 1:32 AM
Received:    3/23/97 11:10 AM
From:        Robert Jakobson, robert@firehole.com
To:          'ken@vvcs.com', ken@vvcs.com

On your page: <!-- Glenn, please make this an active link when reposting
this document. Thanks, Ken -->
http://www.vvcs.com/a51/photos/monument2.html

Is a pretty much standard inscription of a dedication of an early Mormon
religious location.  The Mormon church believe in a kind of Quasi-Old
Testament belief that the "keys" to heaven are passed on to those who
hold the priesthood.  Virtually every male who becomes a member of the
church eventually becomes a member of the "Aaronic" priesthood.  This is
something akin to a "bar mitzvah" or coming of age ritual, passage of
manhood thing.

This allows them certain rights to perform various services within the
church, and from there they study to become members of the Melchezdik (sp
- sorry it's late and my memory doesn't serve me well).  Once they have
become members of the Melchezdik priesthood they are in essence "full
members" of the church.

In basics, you're looking at a monument to someone's bar mitzvah from the
turn of the century.  If you're interested in more info on Dr.
Glendenning I would suggest you check out the Mormon church's
Genealogical databases.  Since Genealogy plays a highly important part of
the church's goings on, you can almost be certain there is information
there about the good Dr.

You've probably been told most of this, but I figured it was worth
tossing in my two cents worth.  It's more a case of religious fervor than
alien influence.  But... ya never know, right?  I'm a former Mormon
myself so most of this is old hat to me living so close to Salt Lake and
all I see monuments like this one a lot out in the hills.  All of the
stuff on it is pretty much standard stuff for the church's people of that
time period.





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