Face Toward Zion

Even today priests occupy the temple. But once upon a time, so did priestesses. The difference being, the ordinances men perform are public, the ordinances women perform are private.

Properly ordered, the temple would not just be for adults doing proxy work for the dead. It would be in active use for the living, here and now. What would be taught? Doctrines of salvation, obviously, but why not also reading, writing, math, science, and history, to name a few.

Consider for a moment that for every role that a man occupies, every authority with which he's been endowed, there is an equal and complimentary role occupied by woman. She is likewise endowed with authority, not any less in efficacy nor divine in legitimacy.

All of the years under the reign of Josiah are known as the Deuteronomic Reform, but the actual temple reforms did not begin until they “found” that damn book ten years into it. So, let’s keep in context that all of the reforms first required 10 years of grooming a