Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

[Report #172] Folk-magic treasure-digger turned prophet. The Church's OWN history pages concede it: seer-stone-in-a-hat scrying for 'Spanish silver', the 1826 Bainbridge 'glass looker' charge, and the SAME technique producing the Book of Mormon. Made a Freemason Mar 1842; introduced the Masonic-derived temple endowment ~7 weeks later. Assassinated 1844 — the structure survived him (Egregore #57).