INDEX

Abbott, Scott

Abel, Elijah

Abiff, Hiram: allusions to murder in Book of Nephi; claimed by Masons to be Solomon’s architect; murder by fellow masons; represented by Abinadi; resemblance to Nephi

Abinadi

Abinadi Delivers His Message to Wicked King Noah

Abish

Abolitionists

Abraham, Book of

Acacia tree

Aventures de Télémaque

African Americans: as Masons; see also Cain/Canaan/Canaanites; Racism of Mormonism

Africans and Native Americans; The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

Age of Reason

Akenson, Donald H.

Alexander, Thomas

Alma

Alma Baptizes in the Waters of Mormon

American Indians: descent from Lost Tribes; failure of Mormon mission to; foster children in Mormon homes; Masonic Improved Order of Red Men; Mormonism’s Hebraic spin on origins of; Mormonism’s plan for interracial polygamy; Mormon missionaries to marry; see also Racism of Mormonism

American Rite (Masonic)

Amlicites

Ammon

Anabaptists

Ancient (Royal Arch) Masons. See Royal Arch (Ancient) Masonry

Anderson, James

Anderson, Lynn Matthews

Andrus, Milo

Anthon, Charles

Anthon transcript

Antimasonic Party

Antiquity of the Jews

Anti-Semitism

Apocalypse. See Eschatology, Second Coming, Apocalypse

The Appearance of Jesus to the Nephites

Apron of Master Mason

Arianism

Ark and Dove honorary degree

Arminianism

Arrington, Leonard J.

“Assassins and Anseyreeh,”

Augsberg Confession

Augustine

Ausfuhrung des Plans und Zweckes Jesu

Bahrdt, Carl Friedreich

Ballou, Hosea

Baptism

Barlow, Philip

Barr, Oliver

Barrett, Francis

Barrett, Ivan J.

Bennett, John C.

Berkhofer, Robert F.

Berkin, Carol

Bible: Book of Isaiah; Book of Mormon recalling narrative of Moses and Aaron; Book of Revelation; as inventive reworking of Hebraic legend; millenarian predictions of; in Mormonism

Bilderback, James C.

Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations

Birth of a Nation

Blacks. See African Americans; Racism of Mormonism

Black Saints in a White Church

Blindfold

Bloch, Ruth

Blood oaths. See Oaths/blood oaths

Bloom, Harold

Blue Lodge

Boaz

Boggs, Lilburn W.

Book of Abraham

Book of Ether

The Book of the Lodge

Book of Mormon: alleged similarities to Spaulding’s Manuscript Found; alleged translation or dictation; Alma on death, salvation, heaven, and hell; attacking religious elitism; attacking secret societies/combinations; on baptism; biblical subtext of; Book of Ether; Book of Helaman; Book of Alma; common theological ground for male and female; on companionship of Holy Ghost; continuing criticism of; critique of apostate Masonry; on death, salvation, heaven, and hell; endorsing Finneyite model of spiritual new birth; on faith, repentance, and baptism; as feminist statement; Gadiantons/Gadianton Robbers; horrors depicted in; inclusive tendencies and adoptive agenda; Jaredites; lauding virtues of the mischievous, hidden, and mysterious; Lehi’s vision, blessing, and admonishments; length; as literary means of disentanglement from female moral dominance; Masonic agenda of; Masonic baptisms; as Masonic fiction and locus of male worship and rite of passage; Masonic interpretation of “new birth”; as Masonic monitor; mistaken anti-Masonic interpretation; Nephites as protagonists; origin, circulation, and sales of; outdoor setting for; paucity of female role models in; plan for racial equality; references to hellfire and unprofitable servants; relegated to back shelf; reverence for Virgin Mary; on salvation of heathens; as summary of major current issues; Swedenborgian influence; taking issue with smear tactics; women in; Young contravening adoptive spirit of; see also First Vision; Mormonism; Mosiah, Book of; Nephi, books of; Revelations to Smith; Smith, Joseph Jr.; Nephi, Book of

Book of Mormon, illustrations from: Abinadi Delivers His Message to Wicked King Noah; Alma Baptizes in the Waters of Mormon; The Appearance of Jesus to the Nephites; Brother of Jared in the presence of the Deity; Captain Moroni Raises the Title of Liberty; facsimile of characters; Helaman Leads an Army of 2,000 Ammonite Youths; Joseph Smith Receives the Plates; Lehi Discovers the Liahona; Young Nephi Subdues His Rebellious Brothers; see also Mormonism, illustrations related to

Book of Moses

Book of Revelation

Brazen Serpent, Knight of the

Brenchley, Julius

Brethren (or Dunkers)

Brigham City Cooperative

Bringhurst, Newell G.

British Israelites

Brodie, Fawn M.: arguing for anti-Masonic interpretation of Mormonism; assessment of Smith’s writing skills; on Gadiantons/Gadianton Robbers; on origin of name “Mormon”; pro-American interpretation of Mormonism

Brooke, John L.

Brother Joseph Brant, The Mohawk Chief

Brother of Jared in the presence of the Deity

Brothers, Richard

Brother William McKinley, Knight Templar and Twice President of the United States

Brown, Benjamin

Browning, James Allen

Bruce, Eli

Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons

Bullock, Steven C.

Bush, Lester E.

Bushman, Richard L.

Bushnell, Horace

Cain/Canaan/Canaanites: African American men as offspring of; apostate priesthood; Book of Mormon on reclamation of native peoples; confusion with Tubal-Cain; curse of dark skin; Masons and Ham; see also Racism of Mormonism

Cain’s wife

Calvinism

Camorah

Campbell, Alexander

“Camps,”

Cane/rod/wand/pedum

Captain Kidd

Captain Moroni Raises the Title of Liberty

Carnes, Mark C.: on Adam’s fall and redemption; on discovery of long lost book of the Law; on fraternal initiation; on Improved Order of Red Men; on role of Bible in Masonry

Carpenter, William

Cassara, Ernest

“Chamber of Reflection” scenario

Chambers, Samuel

Channing, William Ellery

The Character, Claims, and Practical Workings of Freemasonry

Charles, Melodie Moench

Chase, Durfee

Chastanier, Benedict

Cherny, Robert

Christian (Chivalric) degrees

Christian Identity Movement

The Christian System

Church Security Plan or Welfare System

City of God

Clark, J. Reuben Jr.

Clawson, Mary Ann

Clegg, Robert I.: on forest-like outdoor setting of Forest Masonry; on lighting in Masonic lodges; on Name of God; on symbolism of tent

Clinton, De Witt

Color/race. See Cain/Canaan/Canaanites; Lamanites, curse and redemption of; Racism of Mormonism

Communism and communitarianism

Compass

Congregationalists

Constitutions of the Free Masons’

Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism

Conversion. See First Vision (Smith’s conversion dream and its Masonic overtones)

Corrill, John

Cowdery, Oliver

Craft Masonry

Cross, Whitney R.

Cult of domesticity

Cutler, Alpheus

Dalcho, Frederick

Daraul, Akron

Darby, John Nelson

Darius

Death, salvation, heaven, and hell: Alma on; Augsberg Confession on; Masonic concepts of; Mormon concepts of; Protestant concepts of; Universalist concepts of; Westminster Confession of Faith on

De Benneville, George

Defoe, Daniel

Degrees: American Rite; Chivalric; Christian; honorary Ark and Dove; Knights of Malta; original three; Ramsay’s new Royal Arch system; of Scottish Rite; Seventeenth; Twenty-eighth; Twenty-fifth; Twenty-Sixth (Trinitarian)

De Molai, Jacques

DePillis, Mario S.

De Principiis

Devil, the (Satan/Lucifer)

De Voto, Bernard

Dispensationalism

Doctrine and Covenants

Dove Medallion

Dumenil, Lynn

Dunkers (Brethren)

Dwight, Timothy

Dyslexia of Smith

Eastern Star, Order of

Ecclesiastical History

Economic practices and theory in Mormonism: as antithesis of communism; as attempt to balance needs of individual and community; Brigham City Cooperative; Church Security Plan or Welfare System; communal holding of goods; consumers’ cooperative system; defense of communitarianism, Jacksonian theory; eradication of poverty; eschewing conspicuous consumption; fraternalism versus “Sociocracy”; as Jacksonian self-reliance, determination, and hard work; Law of Consecration and Stewardship; Law of Tithing; of Masonic rather than Marxist derivation; Mormons first, excepting African Americans; mutual Christian aid and care for needy; as neither communistic nor theocratic; poverty as unavoidable but curable

Edwards, Jonathan

Edwards, Paul

Egyptian Rite

Elwood, Douglas

Embry, Jessie

Endowment

England, Eugene

Enoch

Enochian alphabet

Enos

Entered Apprentice

Epperson, Stephen

Equality (in Masonry)

Eschatology, Second Coming, Apocalypse: Augustine on; conflict between pre-and postmillennialism; early adjustment of predictions; Jesus calling for; Protestant; see also Millennialism, pre- and post-

Esplin, Ronald K.

An Essay on the Causes of the Varieties of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species

Ether, Book of

Evangelicalism: attacking Masonic charitable relief; backing Victorian family arrangement and role models; baptism and; as early feminism; influencing Masonic ritual; locating Mormonism on lunatic fringe of Protestantism; Morgan affair aiding; Mormonism’s prejudice against; not free from economic racial bias; opposing religious/biblical fiction; opposition to Masonry; opposition to secret societies; as Smith target for militant propagandizing; as Trinitarians versus Universalists; triumph of, following Civil War; see also Protestantism

Excitement

Faber, G. S.

Faith

Faludi, Susan

Fama Fraternitatus

Fels, Tony

Feminism: and Evangelicalism; Mormon

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La

Fessler, Ignatius Aurelius

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

Fiction in Mormonism and Masonry

Fictions of Freemasonry

Fielding, Joseph

Finney, Charles Grandison

First Vision (Smith’s conversion dream and its Masonic overtones): apology for adolescent peccadilloes; darkness and blindfold; early visions recurring annually; James 1:5 and enquiry of Lord; Moroni’s nocturnal appearances; Smith’s initial inability to feel; sun, moon, and stars; targeting rancor of antiMasonry; as testimony of Royal Arch Mason; unearthing of golden plates; virtues of concord; withdrawal to bedroom as “Chamber of Reflection” scenario

Florine of Burgundy, Templar Knight and Faithful Companion of Sweno the Dane

Forbes, Jack D.

Forest Masonry

Foster, Lawrence

Fox, Feramorz, Y.

Franklin, Benjamin

Fraternal supper

The Freemason

The Freemason Examin’d

Freemasons. See Masonry/Freemasonry

The Freemason’s Monitor; or Illustrations of Freemasonry

Futurists

Gadiantons/Gadianton Robbers

Gazelam

Gender issues. See Women

Gentiles

The German Peasants’ War and Anabaptist Community of Goods

Gibalim

Gnosticism

God, concept of: in orthodox Christianity; in Scottish Rite

God, Mormon concept of: Christian Neoplatonism; consistent with patriarchical notions; development from modalistic unity to hierarchy of gods; divine love versus evil and suffering; evolution of; Father of God; as first and earliest Christianity; humans capable of resembling Diety; as intellectual quagmire; message to women in; as Mother; Mother in heaven; nature of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; by Origen; as outside pale of orthodox Judaism and Christianity; polytheism and pluralism; as preexistent Christ; as Sabellian Monophysite/Unitarian interpretation; separating Mormons and mainline Christians; as similar to and apology for Christian Masonry

Goethe

Golden plates: discovery from “brown seer stone”; as possible Masonic mnemonic device; providing “proof” of assertions; as Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board); Smith’s claims of miraculous translation; unearthing of

Goodman, Paul

Goodwin, S. H.

Goose and Gridiron Tavern

Gormy, James

Gould, Robert Freke

Grant, Heber J.

Great Basin Kingdom

The Great Eclipse and Terrible War About to be Made in His Name

Greek in Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board)

Griffith, D. W.

Groesbeck, C. Jess

Hale, Sarah J.

Hale, Van

Hall, Prince

Hansen, Klaus J.

Hardy, B. Carmon

Harris, Martin

Hatch, Nathan O.

Heaven and hell. See Death, salvation, heaven, and hell

Heavenly flesh theory

Hebrew in Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board)

Helam

Helaman Leads an Army of 2,000 Ammonite Youths

Hexham, Irving

Hill, Marvin S.

Historicism

The History of the Church

Hodge, Charles

Hogan, Mervin B.

Holy Ghost

Homer, Michael

Hopkins, Hiram

Howe, Eber D.

Hoyt, Herman A.

Hughes, Richard T.

Hullinger, Robert

Hundred Years

Hutchinson, William

Hyde, Orson

Illustrations of Freemasonry

Improved Order of Red Men

Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon

Indians. See American Indians

Ingraham, Joseph Holt

Inspired Version; The Holy Scriptures Containing the Old and New Testaments …

Iron rod

Iroquois: The League of the Iroquios; Order of the Iroquois

Irving, Edward and Irvingites

Isabel

Israelites, British

Jachin

Jacob

James, Jane Manning

Jared, Brother of

Jared, Daughter of

Jaredites

Jefferds, Oren

Jefferson, Thomas

Jerusalem

Jerusalem Lodge, London

Jesus: Appearance of Jesus to the Nephites; as best of Masonic sons; biblical account; calling for kingdom of God; Masonic account; Masonic belief in marriage of; Mormon account; as person/spirit of the Father; Phy on recreated; Schweitzer on; see also Eschatology, Second Coming, Apocalypse

Jewel of an Ark Mariner

Jewish Gnosticism

Jewish studies

Jews: anti-Semitism; British Israelite belief in failure to live up to covenant; conversion hoped for at Second Coming; Knights Templar attitude toward; Masonic attitude toward

Jews, Mormon attitude toward: as Christian anti-Semitism; concern with Holy Land rather than covenant people; having Masonic or British Israelite slant; House of Judah versus House of Israel; as neo-Hebraic countermovement in opposition to Primitive Christianity; resistance to proselytize among; return of Israel to Palestine, Zion in America; Smith on; Young on

Jonas, Abraham

Jordan, Winthrop D.

Joseph Smith Receives the Plates

Josephus

Journey of the Freemason in the World

Judaism

A Key to the Figurative Language Found in the Sacred Scriptures

Kimball, Heber C.

Kimball, Spencer W.

King Benjamin

King Follet Discourse

Kirkland, Boyd

Knight of the Brazen Serpent

Knight of the East and West

Knight of the Sun

Knights of Malta

Knights Templar, Masonic: alleged journey to America; belief in marriage of Jesus; as brainchild of Ramsay; De Molai, Jacques; “Exhortation” as pattern for Jesus’ ministry; Grand Encampment; as inspiration for Book of Mormon; jealousy of Scottish Rite; in New York; original purpose; origins; raising and lifting up in initiation ritual; role of decapitation; The Sign in Heaven of the Knights Templar; symbols on Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board); system of Egyptian characters used by

Laban

Labor Is Worship

Lamanites, curse and redemption of: as “colored”; end of; environmentalism (monogenesis); hatred of Nephi/Nephites; horrors depicted in; Lehi’s counsel to; lifting of color curse in offspring; as male depravity; metamorphosis from black to white; as mission of Kimball; by Nephi; objections to identification as; praised for endogamous monogamy; quest for brass plates; racial reclamation through miscegenation; rape of daughters of; Samuel as convert of Christianity; Smith on; see also Racism of Mormonism

Latter-day Saints and LDS Church: origin of name; versus Reorganized Latter Day Saints (RLDS); wealth and size

Law of Consecration and Stewardship

Law of Tithing

LDS Doctrine and Covenants

Leavitt, Sarah Sturdevant

Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Lectures on Faith

Lectures on Systematic Theology

Lee, George P.

Lee, William

Lehi

Lehi Discovers the Liahona

Lemuel

A Lexicon of Freemasonry

Liahona

Limhi

Lipson, Dorothy Ann

Lost book of the Law

Lost Tribes

Love, Christopher

Lucifer

Lyon, Edgar T.

McCormick, John S.

McGavin, E. Cecil

Mackey, Albert G.

McKinley, William

McLellin, William E.

McLoughlin, William C.

McMurrin, Sterling B.

Magic, Smith family practice of

The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer …

Making America

Male embrace

Manuscript Found

Marriage in Temple; see also Polygamy

Mary (mother of Jesus)

Masonic Model of the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem.

Masonry Dissected

Masonry/Freemasonry: alleged origins and paucity of documentary evidence; apocalyptic; apron of Master Mason; as blend of history and fiction; British Israelites; claims of foundation in Judaism/Israelitism; concept of God; concepts of death, salvation, heaven, and hell; conversions to Mormonism in early years; corrections and departures from King James Version of Bible; defense of, by Thomas Paine; early American interest in; economic role of brotherly love, benevolence, and charity; Egyptian Rite; elitism and ostentation; exclusion of women; Forest Masonry; growth of; involvement in antebellum politics; as male bonding, boys’ night out; Masonic Alphabet; novelists; oldest lodge on record; opposing Evangelicalism; orthodox, as Jewish faith; as political liability; Red Cross Degree; similarity of God concept to that of Mormonism; stone worship/symbolism; Tower of Babel; traditions of oral transmission of secret knowledge; use of device similar to Urim and Thummin; women and separate-sphere doctrine; see also Morgan, Captain William, and Morgan affair; Royal Arch (Ancient) Masonry; Scottish Rite

Masonry/Freemasonry, illustrations related to: Ancient Lodge of Free-masonry; Anti-Anti-Masonic Polemic; Brother Benjamin Franklin; Brother George Washington; Brother Joseph Brant, The Mohawk Chief; Brother Thomas Smith Webb; Brother William McKinley, Knight Templar and Twice President of the United States; certificates of degrees; divining rod or pedum; English Templar Deacon Robert Crucifix; Florine of Burgundy, Templar Knight and Faithful Companion of Sweno the Dane; Goose and Gridiron Tavern; The Great Eclipse and Terrible War About to be Made in His Name; Jewel of an Ark Mariner; Journey of the Freemason in the World; Labor is Worship; Masonic Model of the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem; Masonic Penalties on Candidates; Moses; The Raising of a Master Mason; The Religions of the World; Rose-Croix Apron with Password “pax Vobis” in Code; The Royal Arch Quest for the Golden Plates of Enoch; The Sign in Heaven of the Knights Templar; Sword of the Tiler; The Trials of Life

May, Dean

Methodists

Meyer, Eduard

The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism

Millennialism, pre- and post-: Albert Schweitzer on; as “already” versus “not yet”; American post-Revolutionary politicization; definitions; forcing choice; merging of Republican, anti-Federalist, and premillennialist ideas; Mormon position on; orthodox Christian position on; overlap in America; radical premillennialists; resurgent pessimism; see also Eschatology, Second Coming, Apocalypse

Miller, Christopher

Miller, William

Mitchell, John

Moderns

“Money diggers,”

Monitor, The (The Freemason’s Monitor; or Illustrations of Freemasonry)

Monogenesis

Monophysites

Moore, R. Laurence

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Morgan, Captain William, and Morgan affair: Abinadi martydom as commentary on; alleged origin of name “Mormonism”; as ammunition for anti-Masonic Evangelicalism; blow to respectability of Masonry; as blow to Smith’s hopes; description of incident; ruining chance of Masonic Republic; Smith’s jab at Masons

Morgan, Jedidiah

Morgan, Lewis Henry

Mormon Doctrine of Diety

Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

Mormonism: as accommodating and appealing to women; accused of un-American activities; anti-Evangelical prejudice; apocalyptic lineage; as bastion of exclusivity; Bible in; Christianity and; as communitarian; contesting Evangelicalism; cricitism of “apostate priesthood order”; as defense and reworking of Masonry; demographic of followers; denied religious status by Congress; early Protestant sensibility; as European Masonry; failure of mission to reconstitute; female and male influences; as fraternity; as heterodox compared to mainstream America; Jesus in; missionary success in Great Britain; ordination of males only; outnumbered by latter-day Lamanite Evangelicals; position on millennialism; postmodernist repatriation; Protestantization of; quest for empire; religious pluralism; resembling Universalism; schism in Latter-day Saints versus Reorganized Latter Day Saints (RLDS); submitting to Evangelical, Unionist social vision; see also Book of Mormon; Economic practices and theory in Mormonism; God, Mormon concept of; Racism of Mormonism

Mormonism and Freemasonry: The Illinois Episode

Mormonism and Masonry

Mormonism, illustrations related to: Dove Medallion; Early Mormon Broadside; Enochian alphabet; “Holiness to the Lord” Smith Family Artifact; Joseph Smith Jr.’s cane; Lieutenant-General Joseph Smith Jr., Mormon Knight, Nauvoo Temple; Mark Hoffman Forgery of Anthon Transcript; Sample of Smith’s Handwriting; see also Book of Mormon, illustrations from

Mormon Neo-Othodoxy: A Crisis Theology

Mormons and Jews: Early Mormon Theologies of Israel

Moroni

Morris, Rob

Moses: Book of; in Exodus; in Masonry

Mosiah, Book of

Mother as Mormon God concept

The Mythology of the Secret Societies

Native Americans. See American Indians

Nature and the Supernatural, As Together Constituting One System of God

Nauvoo, Illinois

Nead, Peter

Neoplatonism

Nephesch

Nephi, books of: biblical subtext from Isaiah; Campbellite notions of fall, original sin, etc.; curse on Lamanites; decapitation of Laban, removal of plates/Torah; economic condition; extrapolations unique to Webb; on God’s covenant with Israel; hidden Templar agenda; horrors depicted in; inclusion of Masonic emblems; Jacob on righteous acquisitiveness; Lehi, genealogy, Torah, and brass plates; male lust blamed for downfall of Nephites; paralleling Royal Arch quest for long lost book of the Law; paralleling story of Knights of Red Cross; as protagonists in Book of Mormon; on punishment of Jews; on sleep as ignorance; symbology of sword, Tiler, and compass/liahona; Tree of Life; Young Nephi Subdues His Rebellious Brothers

Nephites

New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

The New Jerusalem; or, the Fulfilment of Ancient Prophecy

New Jerusalem

Noah

Norman, Keith E.

Novels, religious

Oaths/blood oaths

Observations on Free Masonry

O’Dea, Thomas

Oliver, George

Omer

Opperman, Heinrich

Order of Eastern Star

Origen

Original sin

The Origin of Pagan Idolatry

Ostler, Blake T.

O’Sullivan, John L.

Paine, Thomas

Palestine, return of Israel to

Parchment of Smith family

Parker, N. H.

Parousia

Paul, Robert

Pearce, Roy Harvey

Pearson, Carol Lynn

Pedum/cane/rod/wand

Pelikan, Jaroslav

Phelps, W. W.

Philip IV of France

Phy, Allene Stuart

Pike, Albert

Plotinus

Poewe, Karla

Pollock, Gordon D.

Polygamy: end of practice promised; excluding African American women; hierarchy of wives; interracial concubinage for racial harmony; Lamanites praised for endogamous monogamy; as social means to fraternal end

Polygenesis

Polytheism and pluralism

Porter, Sanford

Postmillennialism. See Millennialism, pre- and post-

Post, Stephen

Practical Synopsis of Masonic Law and Usage

Pratt, Orson

Pratt, Parley P.

Premillennialism. See Millennialism, pre- and post-

Prichard, Samuel

Priesthood Meeting

Priesthood, Mormon

Priest, Josiah

Prince Hall Masonry

The Prince of the House of David

Protestantism: concepts of death, salvation, heaven, and hell; on Second Coming; support of Masonry; in upheaval and transformation; see also Evangelicalism

Quest of the Historical Jesus

Quinn, D. Michael

Racism of Mormonism: African American men as cursed offspring of Cain and apostate priesthood; African American men confined to own species, females to marry whites; American Indian foster children in Mormon homes; American Indians as Caucasians with “bear grease and war paint”; American Indians as noble and subhuman; ban on Temple marriage for African Americans; environmentalism (monogenesis); interracial polygamy, mixed marriage; involving African Americans and Indians; Mormonism’s plan for interracial polygamy with women of color; polygenesis; refusal of priesthood to African American men; reversal in principle; Smith’s ordination of African American men; theory of climatic causes of races/colors; see also Cain/Canaan/Canaanites; Lamanites, curse and redemption of

Ramsay, Andrew Michael

Red Cross Degree

Relief Society

Remy, Jules

Reorganized Latter Day Saints (RLDS) versus Latter-day Saints

Repentance

The Restoration of All Things

Revelation, Book of

Revelation in Mormonism

Revelations to Smith: Book of Abraham; Book of Moses; Doctrine and Covenants; King Follet Discourse; LDS Doctrine and Covenants Lectures on Faith; see also Book of Mormon; First Vision

Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and American Culture

Reynolds, David

Richardson, Samuel

Rigdon, Sidney

Riley, I. Woodbridge

Roberts, B. H.

Roberts, J. M.

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson, Joseph Lee

Rod/wand/cane/pedum

Rose-Croix Apron with Password “pax Vobis” in Code

Rosicrucians

Royal Arch (Ancient) Masonry: books of Nephi paralleling quest for long lost book of the Law; born of schism; color preferences; end of rivalry with Moderns; garb of Knights Templar, Masonic; growth and popularity; “Holiness to the Lord” as motto; as inspiration for Book of Mormon; journey to Jerusalem; on original sin; origins of appellation; role of decapitation; trial of life; vision of Enoch; see also Lamanites, curse and redemption of; Masonry/Freemasonry

The Royal Arch Companion

Sabellianism

Saints, Slaves, and Blacks

Salvation. See Death, salvation, heaven, and hell

Samson and Delilah

Samuel the Lamanite

Sandeen, Ernest

Sargant, Thomas

Sariah, wife of Lehi

Satan (the devil/Lucifer)

Schweitzer, Albert

Scottish Rite: arrival in America; attraction to Book of Revelation; concept of God in; continental Masonry gravitating to; degrees in; divine love versus evil and suffering; doctrine of the Trinity; Jesus as mediator; Journey of the Freemason in the World; Knight of the Brazen Serpent; Knight of the East and West; as Royal Arch Masons; suggesting Trinitarianism; symbols on Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board); Word or Logos; see also Masonry/Freemasonry

Seantum

Second Coming. See Eschatology, Second Coming, Apocalypse

Second Great Awakening

Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America

Secret Societies

Secret societies/combinations

Segal, Alan

Sentiments Concerning the Coming and Kingdom of Christ

Separate-sphere doctrine

Servetus, Michael

Sethos

Seventeenth degree

Shipps, Jan

Shumites

Sillito, John R.

Sketches of the History of Literature

Slade, Alexander

Slavery

Sleep as ignorance

Smith, Alvin

Smith, David

Smith, Douglas

Smith, Emma

Smith, Ethan

Smith family parchment (as Masonic tracing board)

Smith, Joseph Jr.: assassination by orthodox Masons/vigilantes; as aural-oral learner, possibly dyslexic or visually dysfunctional; biblical-literalist defense of slavery; on Cain and Lamanite curse; cane of; on economic policy; eschatological views; family practice of magic; gravitating to arcane and heretical; growing ego; hopes and purpose in design of Mormonism; as “imposter”; on Jews and God’s covenant; in juvenile debating society; lament over being misinterpreted; limp; as Mason; Masonry, attempting revitalization of; Masonry, hidden Templar agenda; Masonry, power from on high; Masonry, timing of borrowing from; as Mormon Knight; as natural leader; presidential campaign; promoted three degrees; psychotherapists’ and reductionists’ analysis; as “robber”; use of secrecy; venting frustration; writing skills; see also Book of Mormon; Economic practices and theory in Mormonism; First Vision; Revelations to Smith

Smith, Joseph Sr.

Smith, Lucy Mack

Smith, Timothy

Smithy, Samuel Stanhope

Solomon’s Temple

Spaulding, Joshua

Spaulding, Solomon

Spirit of Freemasonry

Stayer, James M.

Steed, Thomas

Stenhouse, Fanny

Stenhouse, T. B. H.

Sterry, Peter

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man

Stone worship/symbolism

Stowell, Josiah

Studies of the Book of Mormon

Sturlaugson, Mary Frances

Sun, moon, and stars

Supper, fraternal

Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

Symbolic Plate of Adoptive Masonry.

Swedenborgianism

Sword, symbolism of

Tannehill, Wilkins

Taylor, John

Taylor, Nathaniel W.

Teancum

Tell It All: The Tyranny of Mormonism

Temple marriage

Ten lost tribes. See Lost Tribes

Tent, symbolism of

Terrasson, Jean

Thomas, Mark

Thompson, Charles B.

3 Nephi, Book of: as apology for Christian Masonry; appearance of resurrected Christ; intending to mend rift among groups of Masons; Knights of Malta reflected in; supporting Christian Masonry; turning from Masonry toward Christianity

Thuggee

Tiler

Tithing

Torah

Towards a Christian Republic

Tower of Babel

Town, Salem

Tracing board, Masonic

Transubstantiation

Tree of Life

Trials of Life

Trinitarianism

Trinity, The (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), nature of

The True Christian Religion

Tubal-Cain

Tucker, Pomeroy

Turner, Orasmus

Tuveson, Ernest Lee

Twenty-eighth degree

Twenty-fifth degree

Twenty-sixth (Trinitarian) degree

Understanding Cults and New Religions

Underwood, Grant

Unitarians

Universalism in America

Universalism/Universalists: attraction of Mormonism; concepts of death, salvation, heaven, and hell; influence on Campbell; Masonry and; Nephi and mystical predilections of De Benneville; resembling Mormonism; Swedenborgian influence; versus Trinitarians

Urim and Thummin

Van Der Donckt, C.

Vogel, Dan

Voros Jr., J. Frederick

Les Voyages de Cyrus

Waite, Arthur Edward

Walker, D. P.

Walters, Wesley P.

Wand/rod/cane/pedum

Ward, Lester

Ware, William

Washington, George

Webb, Thomas Smith; on construction of walls of Jerusalem; on Darius; on role of Bible in Masonry; selling apocalyptic works; on symbolism of beehive and ark in Masonry

Wesley, John

Westminster Confession of Faith

Whiskey Rebellion

Whiston, William

White, Jeremiah

White, O. Kendall

White stone worship/symbolism

Whitmer, John

Wight, Lyman

Wilcox, Linda P.

Wilhelm Meister’s Travels

Willers, Diedrich

Wilson, Colin

Winn, Kenneth

Women: appeal of early Mormonism to; blood oaths; Book of Mormon as literary means of disentanglement from female moral dominance; Book of Mormon as subversive radical feminist statement; exclusion from Masonry; facing patriarchal absolutism; feminism and Evangelicalism; inclusion in continental Masonry; inclusion in Masonic ceremonies; as Lucifer’s angels; mention in Book of Mormon; message to, in Mormon concept of God; in moral coalition with fathers; ordination of; ordination of males only; paucity of female role models in Book of Mormon; presumed equal to symbolic carnage of temple and polygamous cohabitation; roles in emerging industrial nation-state; separate-sphere doctrine; see also Polygamy

Wood, Gordon

Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Young, Brigham: on compatibility of Book of Mormon and Bible; contravening adoptive spirit of Book of Mormon; God and non-Virgin Mary; on Jesus; racist policies of; reinstatement of Law of Consecration and Stewardship; on salvation of Jews; value of estate at death

Young Nephi Subdues His Rebellious Brothers.

Zeniff

Zion in America

Zion’s Camp

Zoram