Drawn, not photographed
Diagrams & maps
14 figures, each drawn for this library rather than borrowed — which is why they carry the same ink and rules as the pages around them, and why they redraw themselves when you switch to dark. Every one appears inside the lesson it belongs to; this page collects them so you can find one you half remember.
The plan of salvation
Where we were, why we came, and where it goes — with the two veils marked, and the judgment fanning out into three degrees rather than two outcomes.
The two deaths, and the two remedies
The Fall introduced two separations. One is undone for everyone without condition; the other requires a response. Most confusion about grace and works comes from applying a statement about one to the other.
How mercy satisfies justice
Three parties, not two. Justice is not waived; the penalty is paid by someone who did not owe it, which is what gives mercy a claim.
The covenant path
Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, the temple, and enduring — with the gate marked, and the weekly loop back through the sacrament.
The degrees of glory
Sun, moon and stars — Paul's figures, given a doctrinal reading in the vision of February 1832.
Lehi's dream, as a map
Every element of the vision in one frame, with the angel's interpretations keyed to it — including the detail that the great and spacious building has no foundation.
Abraham's journey
Ur to Haran to Canaan, and down into Egypt during the famine — the arc of the fertile crescent, which is why the journey goes north before it goes west.
The Exodus
Out of Goshen, across the sea, to Sinai and the law, then Kadesh, then forty years, then around Edom to the plains of Moab.
The land of the ministry
Galilee, Samaria, Judea and Perea, with the places the Gospels name most. Roughly seventy miles separate Nazareth from Jerusalem.
Chiasmus, using Alma 36
A Hebrew figure in which the second half mirrors the first, so the turning point sits at the centre. In Alma 36 the centre is the moment he calls on Christ — and the relief arrives at exactly that verse.
Hebrew parallelism
Four kinds, with examples. Reading the second line as new information is the commonest mistake made with the Psalms, Proverbs and Isaiah.
The tabernacle
A sequence of thresholds: court, holy place, holy of holies — each entered by fewer people, through more preparation. The veil is the last of them.
The records behind the book
Which record each part of the Book of Mormon comes from, where Mormon's abridgement begins, and what the 116 pages would have contained.
The Godhead, compared
One substance in three persons, against three beings perfectly one in purpose. The difference is not a technicality — it changes what the baptism of Jesus and John 17 are describing.