Mormonism and Masonry, A Private Notebook, by A. C. Lambert

File — Box: 29, Volume: 1

Identifier: IV

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Divisions in the book include Mormonism and Masonry, A Tabooed Subject; The Traditional Mormon Story about Mormons and Masons; Why Did the Mormons Go Into Free masonry in Illinois; For What Things Were the Mormon Lodges of Freemasonry Criticized; Other Major Criticisms that were Made Against the Mormons; Joseph Smith at Carthage Jail; A Summary Chronology of Some Major Events; Concerning the Origins of the Temple Mysteries; What Is To Be Said of Joseph Smith's Anti-Masonry of 1830; The Significant Language of Symbols; Some Illustrative Symbols That are Common, More or Less in the Mystery Systems that Include the Mormons and the Masons; The Particular Symbol of the Apron; Some Common Elements in Masonry and Mormonism; Some Concepts that Appear to be Common, More or Less, To Many Mystery Systems, Including Those of the Mormons and the Masons; Some Pros and Cons About the Mormon Temple Oaths; Mormon "Blood Atonement"; The Sophistry That the Initiate Takes the Mormon Blood Oaths of His "Own Free Will and Choice"; The University and the Temple; A Conversation with a Mason-Mormon Stake President; The Triangle, Pyramid, and All-Seeing Eye; Illustrations of a Few Primary Symbols--Circle, Square, Triangle, and the All-Seeing Eye of God.

Dates

1929-1983

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