CONTENTS

Preface: Mormon Masonry?

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Wax and Wane of Masonry in American Culture

I

THE MORMON-MASONIC NEXUS

one  Reading a Sealed Book

two  Was Joseph Smith a Mason?

three  Dreaming Masonry: Getting the Story Plumb

four  As the Words of a Book That Is Sealed: The Book of Mormon as Esoteric Male (Hi)Story

five  Fleeing Babel with Mother and Child in Tow

II

THE QUEST WITHIN THE QUEST

six  A Bible! A Bible! We Have Got a Bible

seven  The Search for the Long Lost Book in the Book of Mormon

eight  What Manner of (Masonic) Men?

III

THE ANTI-EVANGELICAL MIND OF JOSEPH SMITH JR.

nine  Whether a Man Can Enter a Second Time into His Mother’s Womb

ten  Heaven and Hell: Divining the Ghost of Emmanuel Swedenborg

eleven  Father-Son and Holy Ghost–Mother? The Mormon-God Question

IV

THE MILLENNIAL, RACIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CONFEDERACY

twelve  Thy Kingdom Come: On Earth As It Is in Heaven

thirteen  Mormons and Jews

fourteen  The Curse and Redemption of the Lamanites: Salvation Bi-race Alone

fifteen  The Economic Kingdom of God: Masonic Utopianism Unveiled

Postscript: The “Americanness” of Mormonism

Notes

Bibliography

Index