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@sun @amerika @une @7666 @arcana @toiletpaper This is propaganda BYU likes to shill, but often the Mormon "rediscoveries" are actually just them being influenced by Renaissance-Hermetic ideas that were already back in the public consciousness via occult movements, which were especially popular in early America.

You'd see the exact same similarities in Masonic rituals and other neo-esoteric groups. The only difference is Mormons wrote that stuff back into their founding texts ad hoc.

Researching Mahayana I've run into a similar problem. Every 500 years or so you'll have a new golden age of philosophy that draws out deep insights from the original teachings that are "lost" or simply overlooked, which is fine on its own, but then you have monks after them that will write those developments back into forged "primary sources" (almost all Mahayana Scripture falls into this category) and they go "Look, we have the original undefiled teaching of the Buddha! Come support our school!"