Jeffrey M. Bradshaw describes the orientation of the temple structure.

Date
2022
Type
Book
Source
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
LDS
Hearsay
Secondary
Reference

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Freemasonry and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Temple Ordinances (Orem and Salt Lake City, UT: The Interpreter Foundation and Eborn Books, 2022), 81–82

Scribe/Publisher
Eborn Books, Interpreter Foundation, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
People
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Figure 5-8 shows how a “two-way” temple journey in Nephite temples—outwardbound followed by inward-bound—could have been accommodated without requiring a “doubling” of sacred spaces. In trying to imagine such a scenario, Latter-day Saint scholar David Calabro has argued, speculatively, that specific narrative features of Moses 2–6 could have been linked to architectural features of Solomon’s temple (or, for that matter, Nephite temples) in ways that may reflect its relevance to the outward bound sequence of the endowment.342 In this conception, something like an earlier version of Moses 2–4 would have taken place in an outward-bound progression within the temple, accompanied by a narrative relating the Creation and the Fall. An earlier version of Moses 5 could have been staged near the altar of sacrifice, and Moses 6 near the laver. Going further, although Calabro did not explicitly discuss the possibility, it could be easily imagined that an older text roughly analogous to Moses 7 could have been used after that point to accompany the culminating inward-bound endowment sequence.

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