Because of your faithfulness in all these things, I seal upon you the blessings of the Holy Resurrection, with power to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection, clothed with glory, immortality, and eternal lives; and I seal upon you the blessings of thrones and dominions, and principalities, and powers, and exaltations; together with the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and say unto you, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, that you may have joy and rejoicing in your posterity, in the day of the Lord Jesus. All these blessings, together with all other blessings pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, I seal upon your heads, and enjoin your faithfulness unto the end.
[The candidates dress, get a lunch, and return to the "celestial kingdom" to hear a lecture by Kimball, explanatory of the whole scheme. The signs, tokens, marks, and ideas are many of them taken from the Masonic Order. "The intention of the mystery is to teach unlimited obedience to Brigham, and treason against the country."]
BRIGHAM AS GRAND ARCHEE OF THE ORDER OF THE GODS.
Organization of the Order of the Archees.--The Grand Archees. --The Archees.--The Danites.--Organization of Brigham's Celestial Kingdom.--Doctrine of Adoption.--Case of Dr. Sprague. --Description of Leading Danites: Bill Hickman, Porter Rockwell, Robert T. Burton.--Affidavits.--Recent Attacks on Emigrant Trains.
"There on that throne, to which the blind belief Of millions raised him, sat the Prophet Chief. . . . . . . . . . On either side, with ready hearts and hands, His chosen guard of bold believers, stands; Young fire-eyed disputants, who deem their swords On points of faith more eloquent than words; And such their zeal, there's not a youth with brand Uplifted there, but, at the Chief's command, Would make his own devoted heart its sheath, And bless the lips that doom'd so dear a death."
The Order of the Danites has been, for many years, an established institution in the Mormon Church.
Brigham and his two Counsellors form the First Presidency of this Order, under the style of Gods, or Grand Archees. These are, at present, Young, Kimball, and Wells. A few, also, of the Apostles, hold the rank of Grand Archees. These have the power of life and death.