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Show Notes 1. Journal History, 28 August 1852; quoted in E. Cecil McGavin, Mormonism and Masonry (Salt Lake City: Stevens & Wallis, Inc., 1947), p. 68. (The Journal History, a chronological collection of mainly newspaper clippings, is located in the archives of the LDS Historical Department). 2. McGavin attempts to deal with the origin of these symbols. See also Anthony W. Ivins, The Relationship of "Mormonism" and Freemasonry (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1934); Laurel B. Andrew, The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1978); and Allen D. Roberts, "Where Are the All-Seeing Eyes? The Origin, Use, and Decline of Early Mormon Symbolism," Sunstone 4, no. 3 (May-June 1979):22-37. 3. Andrew, p. 123. 4. Helen Marr Whitney, "Scenes in Nauvoo from H. C. Kimball's Journal," Woman's Exponent 12 (September 12, 1883) :58. 5. For a discussion of the nineteenth-century Mormon kingdom-building see Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1958); James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard, The Story of the Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1976); and Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean May, Building the City of God (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1976). 6. For a discussion of the beehive in contemporary Mormon society see Mark P. Leone, "The New Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C.," in Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things, ed. Leland Furgeson, Special Publications Series, No. 2 (The Society for Historical Archaeology, 1977), pp. 43-61. 7. Joseph Smith, Jun., The Book of Mormon (1830; current edition, Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1964), p. 480 (Ether 2:3). 8. Journal History, October 11, 1881, p. 2. 9. Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe, 3d ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1973), p. 640; quoted in Andrew, p. 149. Susan Staker Oman. Former research fellow for the LDS Historical Department and presently production editor for Sunstone magazine. Graduate of Brigham Young University. Richard G. Oman. Manager of Museums and Artifacts for the LDS Historical Department. Graduate in art history, University of Washington. 125 |
