The Third Pillar of Zion- The Law of Consecration

This is Book 4 in The Pillars of Zion Series. This book explores the Law of Consecration, the third pillar of Zion. This book casts this law as a “template,” and answers questions about the law’s origin, past attempts, and future glory. This book demonstrates this law’s validity today and its power to create a Zion person, marriage, family or priesthood society.

It explores the following topics:

•Section 1: What Is the Law of Consecration?
-Consecration—the Principle of Exaltation
-Condition of Babylon
-Definition of Consecration
-Law We Must Live to Achieve the Celestial Kingdom
-Consecrating the Good and the Bad
-Consecration Is Nonnegotiable
-Sanctified by Consecration: Law of the Celestial Kingdom
-Ultimate Consecration—To Sacrifice a Prepared and Purified Heart
-Live Consecration or Lose Eternal Life
-Laying Everything on the Altar
-Consecration and the Atonement
-Temporal and Spiritual Salvation

•Section 2: Consecration Results in Equality and Unity
-Equality—"In Mine Own Way"
-Equality and the Law of Prosperity
-Esteeming All Flesh in One
-Seven Points of Equality
-Taking Equal Responsibility for the Cause of Zion
-Unifying Power of the At-one-ment
-Antagonism—Opposite of Synergy
-Unity and Prayer
-How We Achieve Unity
-End Result of Unity
-All Things Common among Them
-Law of Common Consent
-Love Leads Us to Eternal Life
-Is Baptism Sufficient for Exaltation?
-Two Purposes of the Law of the Gospel
-Interwoven Covenants
-Law of Sacrifice
-Sacrifice and love

•Section 3: Guiding Principles of Consecration
-Guiding Principles of Consecration
-Agency and Truth
-Riches of the Earth Are the Lord's
-God Becomes Our Paymaster
-Stewardship and Equality
-Profitable and Unprofitable Servants
-Accountability
-Idle Poor
-Idle Rich
-Virtue of Labor

•Section 4: Ultimate Test—God or Mammon
-Test of Riches
-Only the Pure in Heart Can Pass This Test
-Lord's Willingness to Be Tested
-Consecration Is All about Love
-A Change of Orders
-Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil
-Covetousness—Last Law
-Higher and Lower Laws of Prosperity
-More Weighty Matters
-Trying to Mix Mammon and Zion
-Warnings against Compromise
-Making Mammon Holy
-Mormon's View of the Last Days
-First Commandments of This Dispensation
-No Security in Mammon
-Slippery Treasures
-Lazarus and the Rich Man
-Nothing Compares to the Danger
-Lessons in the Scriptures Concerning Wealth
-Persecuting the Poor
-Wo unto the Rich Who Despise the Poor
-They Rob the Poor
-Building Sanctuaries
-Wealth-Seeking—Sin That Hinders and Destroys the Church
-Ugliness of Inequality Contrasted with the Beautiful Work of Angels
-Withholding from and Judging the Poor Harshly
-Evil of the Age: Life for Money
-A Curse on the Daughters of Zion
-Blessings for Those Who Rescue the Poor
-Poor of the Lord's People Shall Trust in Zion
-Consequences of Seeking Wealth and Persecuting the Poor
-Loss of the Providences of Heaven
-Loss of Priesthood Power and Exaltation
-Failure in Our Mission
-Loss of Peace
-Loss of National Security
-Who Shall Enter?
-What Doth It Profit?
-Voice of Seven Thunders
-Choosing God over Mammon
-Obtaining a Hope in Christ
-Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give
-Feeding the Lord's Lambs
-Choosing God's Marvelous Work over Babylon's Charms
-Invoking the Law of Asking to Receive

•Section 5: Royal Law
-Royal Law Explains the Principles of Consecration
-Cornerstones of the Law of Consecration
-Mutual Assistance
-Faith and the Proper Use of the Priesthood
-Consecrating a Sickness and a Life to the Lord
-Administration and Forgiveness of Sins
-Consecration Requires Faith
-Reciprocal Love
-Charity—Pure Love of Christ
-Charity Strengthened by Faith and Hope

And Much More!