Description

A study of the influence of magic and Masonry on Joseph Smith and his family. Pictures of Smith's Jupiter talisman and the Hyrum Smith magic parchments.

Table of Contents

1. The Smith's Magic Material

   Joseph Smith's Magic Talisman

   Hyrum Smith's Magic Paraphernalia

   Comparing Hyrum Smith's Material with Magic Sources

   Concern Over the Smiths' Possession of Magic Material

2. The Influence of Magic and Masonry

   Joseph Smith Learned Magic From His Parents

   "The Faculty of Abrac"

   Seer Stones

   "The Rod of Aaron"

   Joseph Smith's Magic Circles

   Blood Sacrifices for the Demons

   The Providential Murder of Harper

   Slipping Treasures and the Book of Mormon

   The Guardian of the Treasure

   Forged Mormon Documents

   Gold Plates in Magic and Masonry

   The Legend of Enoch's Gold Plate

   The Only Reasonable Conclusion

Appendix A

The Question of Satanic Influence in the Book of Mormon and in the Temple Ceremony

Is Mormon an Infernal Name?

Further Information on Mormo

Does the Book of Mormon Have "A Familiar Spirit"?

Do the Mormons Call Upon Lucifer in Their Temple Ceremony?

Oaths in the Temple Ceremony

Pentagrams on the Temples

Spiritualism and the Temple

Appendix B

A Photographic Reproduction of the Legend of Enoch's Gold Plate from the 1802 The Freemason's Monitor