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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. This volume includes the following: -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 -Co