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Tenting, Toll, and Taxing

September 9, 1992 by • Adam, ancient world, Ark of the Covenant, Asiatic(s), camp, ceremonial camp, Christian(s), combat, cosmology, Egypt, epic hero, epic literature, feudalism, Greeks, hierocentric state, Holy Camp, Holy City, Jerusalem, Jews, King(s), Mesopotamia, migration(s), monarchs, Near East, nomads, Oriental, outer space, palace, Paradise, pharaohs, philosophy, political philosophy, refuge, ritual, Romans, Royal Progress, sacred shrine, sacred tent, shrine, State, tax, tent(s), the Flood, The LORD, the Temple, toll, underworld, war, Windflood

Western Political Quarterly 29:4 (December 1966): 599-630; CWHN 10:33-98. An historical study of the roots of taxation, property and political dominion. — Midgley

What is Zion?

December 2, 1983 by • Analiza Brigham Young, apostles, appearances, awesome, Babylon, beauty, Bible, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Christian(s), condition of the heart, darkness, destruction, division, Enoch, equal, eternal life, eternal order, goal, God, Heavenly City, Holy land, Holy place(s), invulnerable, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s) of God, money, Mormon(s), New Education Jerusalem, obedient, one heart, one mind, peace, perfection, power(s), pure in heart, purity, refuge, rhetoric, Roman, safety, sanctify, Satan, sin, society, temple(s), terror, the Gospel, The LORD, the poor, the Prophets, the Saints, the world, treason, truth, Two Ways, type of, virtue(s), Way of Darkness, Way of Light, wealth, wicked, wickedness, Zion

“What is Zion? A Distant View,” in What Is Zion? Joseph Smith Lecture Series, 1972-1973 (Provo: BYU Press, 1973): 1-21; CWHN 9:25-62. This talk, originally given in 1973, was circulated prior to publication as “Waiting for Zion,” typed typescript, 34 pp., d.s. A passionate treatment of one of Nibley’s favorite themes. — Midgley

The Hierocentric State

June 20, 1960 by • Aesir, Alexander the Great, Almighty, Anahita, Ancyra, anti-Christ, Asia, Assyria, Attila, Babylonia, Book of Life, Britain, Byzantine, Caliphs, Celts, Central Asia, China, Christian(s), conquerors, Constantine (Emperor), coronation, creation(s), cruelty, Delphi, Egyptian, Galatians, Gaul, Genghis Khan, God, Goths, Great Assembly, Greek rites, hierocentric, hierocentric shrine, hierocentric state, Holy logberg, Holy shrine, human beginnings race, Huns, hunter(s), Iceland, Islam, Jewish, Justinian, Kaaba at Mecca, Khan(s), King(s), King(s) of the four quarters, King(s) of the four regions, kingdom(s), kingship, Kublai Khan, lapis manalis, meeting place, Mongols, Moslem(s), mountain of the law, navel of Sicily, New Education Year, Nimrod, nobility, nomadic, panegyris, Persian Nauroz, primordial, refuge, rites, ritual, Roman emperor, Roman emperor Empire, Rome, royal blood court, Slavic assemblies, stone circle, Two Kingdoms, universal assembly, universal assembly kingship, world(s) church, Xenophon, Year drama

Western Political Quarterly 4:2 (1951):226-253; CWHN 10:99-147. A study of the role of ritual centers and kingship in ancient regimes. — Midgley

The Utopians

April 2, 1960 by • Abraham, Anomia, Book of Mormon, brotherly love, celestial order, City of the Sun, class, convenience, Dead Sea Scrolls, democracy, democratic state, dining-halls, discipline, discontent, dormitories, earthly order, Enoch, Eunomia, evils, families, Francis Bacon, friendship, Golden Age, Greeks, heavenly order, ideal society, Isaiah, John Wycliffe, Lycurgus, migration(s), monks, Nova Atlantis, one heart, one mind, philosophy, Plato, pride, principle, Qumran, reality, refuge, religion, righteous, self-interest, Sir Thomas More, Solon, Sparta, the Gospel, The LORD, the poor, the rich, Thomas Campanella, Thomas More, Utopia, Utopias, wealth, wickedness, wilderness

CWHN 9:487-523