Allen D. Roberts offers summary of use of Masonic symbols in Church iconography.

Date
May 1985
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
Allen D. Roberts
LDS
Disaffected
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Allen D. Roberts, "Where Are the All-Seeing Eyes?: The Origin, Use and Decline of Early Mormon Symbolism," Sunstone (May 1985): 38

Scribe/Publisher
Sunstone
People
Allen D. Roberts
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

It is true that the artwork, particularly in the literature of the two groups, is sometimes indistinguishable. Masonic handbooks clearly show that the three most important Masonic symbols (three great lights) are the Bible, square, and compass. All of these have place in the Mormon symbolic vocabulary as well . . .

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