Introduction

Mormonism, Second Great Awakening, New York's Burned out District, Adventists, the Millerites, the Shakers, Spiritualism, Joseph Smith, ceremonial magick, astral magic, theurgy, scrying, Fraternal Order of Rodsmen, the "Wood Scrape," Rodsmen tied to the early Mormon church, the Smith family, Ephrata Cloister, Conrad Beissel, "Magus of Cocalico," Rosicrucianism, Renaissance vs Enlightenment thinking, Hermeticism, Beissel's influence on Mormonism, Salamander's letters controversey, Peter Levenda, Mark Hoffman, Freemasonry, William Morgan, Morgan Affair links to Mormonism, American folk magic, The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon, The Magus, Joseph Smith's Jupiter talisman, John Dee, obsidian scrying stone controversy, Brigham Young's "Bloodstone amulet," "cunning folk," Utah weirdness