Aaronic Order

House of Aaron
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Classification	Latter Day Saint
Leader	John M. Conrad
Headquarters	Eskdale, Utah 39°6′27.61″N 113°57′10.87″W / 39.1076694°N 113.9530194°W / 39.1076694; -113.9530194
Founder	Maurice L. Glendenning
Origin	August 18, 1943 Utah
Separated from	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Members	Between 1,500 and 2,000
Official website	House of Aaron website

The House of Aaron, less commonly known as the Aaronic Order or The Order of Aaron is a religious sect classified by scholars as an offshoot of the Latter Day Saint movement. The sect is centered in Eskdale, Utah a small farming community in Millard County, with additional branches in Partoun, and Murray, Utah. The House of Aaron was founded in 1943 by Maurice L. Glendenning and has a membership estimated between 1,500 and 2,000.

Glendenning, born February 15, 1891 in Randolph, Kansas, and his family were unfamiliar with the Latter Day Saint movement and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).However, as a boy, he confided in his father that he could "hear heavenly music even when wide-awake".As a young teen, the heavenly music became interspersed with angelic voices uttering poetry, which he began to write down in notes he kept private out of fear of ridicule. As a young man, the "angelic poetry" evolved into doctrinal and philosophical statements, and he gradually began sharing the text of his messages with more and more friends and relatives.

In 1928, Glendenning and his family moved to Provo, Utah, looking for employment. Counseled by LDS missionaries, Glendenning began to feel that a number of LDS doctrines, including the priesthood and proper authority, helped him understand his experiences and writings. Glendenning and his wife were baptized into the LDS Church on August 14, 1929.

On January 15, 1945 he was excommunicated as the "Instigator of the Aaronic Order". LDS Church General Authorities asserted that Glendenning was an apostate or heretic. While LDS members could receive divine inspiration for themselves, no one could receive authentic divine messages for the church as a whole, except the President of the Church. However, Glendenning claims not to have received divine messages for the LDS church as a whole; rather, he was accused of wrongdoing presumably because he had claimed to receive divine inspiration that, if true, would affect the validity of some of the teachings of the LDS Church.