Commenting on the charge that the pentagrams one finds on the Nauvoo and Salt Lake Temples are Satanic/occultic, the Tanners(!) wrote that
. . . one must be careful
about making too much of this matter. Masons were using inverted pentagrams
before Joseph Smith established Mormonism. For example, in his book, Freemasonry
Exposed, first published in 1827, Capt. William Morgan shows an upside down
pentagram (see page 106). We will never know exactly what significance Joseph
Smith attached to pentagrams. In over thirty years of extensive research into
the foundations of Mormonism we have never found evidence that any Mormon
leader has ever ascribed anything evil to pentagrams. (Jerald and Sandra
Tanner, Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mormonism [Salt Lake City: Utah
Lighthouse Ministry, 1992], 92)
Further Reading
Question: Isn't the inverted five-pointed star on some Mormon temples really a symbol of evil?