Edmond Ronayne, Freemasonry at a Glance: The Illustrated Secrets of Thirteen Degrees of Freemasonry (Chicago: Ezra A. Cook, Publisher), 1904

File — Box: 48, Volume: 11

Identifier: XI

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Asael Carlyle Lambert papers (1929-1983) document Lambert's life as a Utah and California educator. Part of the collection covers the history and development of early Latter-day Saint scriptures. It contains origins, developments, criticisms, analyses, and exposes of these scriptures. It traces economic, political, and sociological situations and implications resulting from the gathering and the early migrations of the large numbers of people involved in this religious movement, once objectionable to many of their fellow citizens. A related section deals with Joseph Smith Jr., his life, and his activities pursuant to the founding and development of Mormonism. There is material dealing with practices, rituals, and doctrines propounded by the early Latter-day Saint leaders. The material includes a comparative study of LDS theology and Freemasonry--the rites, symbols, oaths, historical development, and their inter-relationships. It contains pamphlets and papers written and published by various researchers. Lambert extends this comparison to the symbols, oaths, and rituals of other secret societies and to quasi-religious organizations. In some instances these findings appear to him to be correlated with Latter day Saint practices and teachings. The collection contains Lambert's notebooks, which are philosophical in nature and discuss the findings and conclusions resulting from his detailed, deep search for the truth behind the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He investigates, in depth, such subjects as "The Name of God,""The Devil,""The Serpent,""The Moon,""Blood," etc., as factors or components of religion or of secret societies.

The last part of the collection is material relating to the study of Utah's school systems--its taxation loads, teachers, buildings, and administration--made by a Utah School Study Committee of which Dr. Lambert was staff director. This study was made during the administration of Governor George D. Clyde. There is also a report of the Los Angeles State College classroom capacity. There are also two oversize portfolios of facsimiles relating to the Book of Mormon and The Book of Abraham, and a separate chart pertaining to the editions of The Doctrine and Covenants.

Boxes 50-57 and 59 consist of primarily of unpublished and published notebooks written by A. C. Lambert. They include handwritten, typewritten, bound volumes, and copies of his notebooks. Lambert writes about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith, Jr., symbols, and spirituality. In Box 57, the volume begins on volume 5. Volumes 1-4 were not received. Oversize box 58 consists of an bound volume entitled Facsimiles from The Book of Mormon: As Printed in Numerous Places Since 1842.

Dates

1904

Conditions Governing Access

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