This evening a meeting, of Elders, was [called] by the president of said quorum, to instruct them, that they may prepare themselves for the holy anointing.
... They gave instructions concerning purification.
["Purification" ... consisted of having one's body washed and bathed with cinnamon-perfumed whiskey and later washing one's own body with pure water and perfume.] ...
[Source: Kirtland Elder's Quorum Record, http://ogdenkraut.com/?page_id=414]
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