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.^ About a month later, Joseph Smith Jr. Sharon, Vermont, on December 23, 1805.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Its stated motivation was to give a "fuller history of [the Mormons’] founder, Joseph Smith, Jr."- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Latter Day Saint leaders Views .- Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikiquote 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
- Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikiquote 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Joseph’s mother, Lucy Mack noted that even before receiving the gold plates, her son was gifted with an extensive knowledge of the inhabitants of ancient America.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Smith, on returning home, asked Emma if she knew whether Joseph had taken the plates from their place of deposit, or if she was able to tell him where they were.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, late in August 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He published this book in March 1830.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is in the original 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Early Life in Western New York, 1816-1827 3.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The archaeologists who produced these results were not Latter-day Saints.- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ May 2 change name of church to Church of the Latter Day Saints.
^ Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 vols.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This revelation deals particularly with the affairs of the saints in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, in response to the Prophet’s inquiry of the Lord for information.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Members of the Church in Missouri were at this time subjected to severe persecution, and on July 23, 1833, had been forced to sign an agreement to leave Jackson County.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This revelation deals particularly with the affairs of the saints in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, in response to the Prophet’s inquiry of the Lord for information.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ The day following, Samuel started home from Far West, although the rain was falling fast, and had been all the night previous.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ William continued to expostulate with him, but to no effect, as Mr. Smith declared that he would not leave Far West, except by revelation.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ FULFILLED?: Joseph Smith and other prominent Mormons had to flee Kirtland to avoid their creditors, leaving debts of thousands of dollars unpaid.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ The exterminating order issued by Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor of Missouri, dated October 27, 1838, had left them no alternative.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Saints in Missouri, until Presidents Joseph Smith, Jr., and Sidney Rigdon arrive in the land of Zion.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ At the direction of Moroni, Joseph Smith takes the plates into his posession on September 22, 1827.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It was published in Nauvoo, Illinois, from November 1839 until February 1846.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On the matter of tenure, Brigham young declared that a clause limiting a president to two terms should not be found in the Constitution of the United States , nor in the constitution made by this on any other people."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Douglas failed of his dearest ambition, the presidency of the United States, and on the 3rd of June, 1861, he died.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He was then a candidate for the Presidency of the United States .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Jesus Christ , speaking through Joseph Smith 12 July 1843 revelation on plural marriage; The Doctrine and Covenants , 132:1–4, 19, 20, 24, 34, 35, 38, 39, 52, 60–62 .- Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikiquote 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
- Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikiquote 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ FULFILLMENT: Plural marriage was practiced by the Mormons secretly until 1852 (and the church lied during that time, vehemently denying any such doctrine or practice), then openly until 1890, when the church announced to the world that it had stopped performing plural marriages (although they continued to be performed secretly by high church authorities for about another 15 years).- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
^ It is also noteworthy that Joseph Smith did not have any children with his plural wives (some people disagree on this point and cite at least one example of a descendant from his plural marriages).
.^ The Senator from Illinois was said to have declared that "he would resign his seat in Congress if he could command the force that Mr. Smith could, and would be on the march to the country in a month."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I argue that the Smith children, first Alvin and then Joseph Jr., were drawn into their parents' dynamic in an attempt to save their marriage.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ A later issue of the same publication dated June 11, 1879, cited Michael Morse, a brother-in-law to Joseph Smith, in support of that claim.- LDS FAQ: Joseph Smith's First Vision Accounts (Origins of Mormonism) 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
He was
killed by a mob while awaiting trial in
Carthage, Illinois.
.^ Although some news of the problems in Missouri had no doubt reached the Prophet in Kirtland (nine hundred miles away), the seriousness of the situation could have been known to him at this date only by revelation.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Preceding his record of this revelation, the Prophet writes descriptively of the land of Zion wherein the people were then assembled.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During Joseph's absence, Mr. Smith was at times very weak, and coughed dreadfully, so that some nights I had to lift him out of bed.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
His teachings include unique views of the
nature of godhood,
cosmology,
family structures,
political organization, and
religious collectivism. His legacy includes
several religious denominations, which collectively claim a growing membership of nearly 14 million worldwide.
[1]
Life
Early years (1805–1827)
Joseph Smith, Jr. was born on December 23, 1805, in
Sharon, Vermont to
Joseph and
Lucy Mack Smith, a working class couple.
[2] Stricken with a crippling bone infection at age eight, he hobbled on crutches as a child.
[3] .^ Early Life in Western New York, 1816-1827 3.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this context, the dream foreshadowed the Smiths' move to New York.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Edward Partridge, near Fayette, New York, December 1830.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[6].^ Interestingly, Joseph Smith’s grandson, Frederick M. Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in Amerindian peyote ceremonies.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ According to Richard Bushman, it was Joseph Smith himself that connected converts to heaven by some power that he possessed, a power that remains a mystery to this day.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It is to the mystery of Joseph Smith’s spiritual power that this presentation has addressed itself.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[7] .^ Prophecies in the Bible about Joseph Smith .- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Should we trust the Bible or Joseph Smith?
^ For more scholarly information you could read In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton.
.^ I will argue that the "singular environmental pressure" motivating Smith's behavior came primarily from his family, that he began his religious career, in part, to resolve family conflict.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Quinn writes, As previously discussed, folk magic and the occult involved training, practice, and inner "gifts" to be an adept.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ About one year after my husband returned from this mission a calamity happened to our family that wrung our hearts with more than common grief.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[11] .^ I may believe that Abraham communed with God, and conversed with angels.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Small stones with naturally occuring holes in them have been especially prized for thier purported magical properties and in many cases, they were believed to be linked directly to the Goddess.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Many of us in times past were rich; but for Jesus' sake and the command of our God we have become poor, as he (Christ) became poor for our sakes, so in like manner we follow his example, and become poor for his sake.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[13] .^ I told him that we were all there.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Latter-Day Saints ("Mormons") hold as among the first and most important principles of their religion, on which all the rest is based, that the founder of their church, Joseph Smith Jr. God, if not the greatest prophet ever to have lived on the earth.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Compiled by RICHARD PACKHAM The Latter-Day Saints ("Mormons") hold as among the first and most important principles of their religion, on which all the rest is based, that the founder of their church, Joseph Smith Jr. God, if not the greatest prophet ever to have lived on the earth.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
[15] .^ In the spring of 1958, this volume came from the press as the first published analysis of the government of God and its role in Latter-day Saint history in recent times, giving the results of my research on the activities of the General Council to that time.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Until the publication of Lee's diaries, neither Melville or I realized that the government of God was more than an ideal in early Latter-day Saint thought-that there had been an actual political organ started by Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is officially organized according to the laws of New York on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York, with six founding members.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[17]
.^ New England was settled by a relatively small population of Puritans who left England during a short window of a few years of government persecution.- And Yet Another Joseph Smith Photograph | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ Black Pete was initially from Pennsylvania and in 1825 may have met the young Joseph Smith digging for buried treasure.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He and another man were employed in digging for treasure, and always attended the Deacon and Smith in their nocturnal labors.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[19] .^ Joseph Smith is known to have used a seer stone to see buried treasure and to "translate" the Book of Mormon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Consider, for example, Smith's use of stones and rods to locate buried treasure and lost objects.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Above is shown a comparison between the Huichol Indian representation of the visionary peyote cactus button and Joseph Smith’s most intricate seer stone.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[20] .^ It was received in the presence of twelve elders, and in fulfillment of the Lord’s promise previously made that the “law” would be given in Ohio; see Section 38: 32.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He was greatly surprised to see but one thing, which was a small stone, a great way off.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith is known to have used a seer stone to see buried treasure and to "translate" the Book of Mormon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[21] .^ Verse 40 is an excerpt of the angel Moroni's visit with Joseph Smith .- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith said that Moroni “called me by name, and said … that God had a work for me to do.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited" (Isaiah 24:21-22).- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[23] .^ Alvin did as he was requested, and when my husband got there, Joseph related to him all that had passed between him and the angel the previous night and that morning.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ You said: But he [Joseph Smith] didn’t because he did not lie.
^ He said they were determined to shoot us on the next morning in the public square in Far West.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[24]
.^ Their meetings continued for the next four years.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Smiths stayed in Tunbridge a short time and then moved to nearby Royalton, but the tranquility of their four years in Sharon and Tunbridge in the bosom of the Mack and Smith families would contrast sharply with the tumult of the next eight years.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During the month of December the LDS church will celebrate two hundred years since the birth of Joseph Smith.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
[25] .^ Warrant issued upon written complaint upon the oath of Peter G. Bridgman, who informed that one Joseph Smith of Bainbridge was a disorderly person and an imposter.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Warrant issued upon written complaint upon oath of Peter G. Bridgeman, who informed that one Joseph Smith of Bainbridge was a disorderly person and an impostor.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith, in his New York identity as "The Frontier Prophet" was installed in downtown Manhattan, near Wall Street.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
[27] .^ Joseph Smith, Jr., and Emma Hale are married by a justice of the peace in South Bainbridge, New York, on January 18, 1827.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ While employed in Bainbridge, Joseph boarded at the Hale house, where he met Emma Hale, with whom he later eloped against the wishes of her devout Methodist father.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[28] .^ Whether it was angel, or alcohol, that gave Joe inspiration is the question; for although drunk on September 21st, yet on September 22nd he claims that he found the plates in the place to which he was directed."14 Inasmuch as Peck had not referred to Joseph's inebriety in the MS, itmay be that Cake obtained his information by direct revelation.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I told him that, if he went, we should leave him on shore, but he could do as he liked.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Smith, on returning home, asked Emma if she knew whether Joseph had taken the plates from their place of deposit, or if she was able to tell him where they were.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[30] .^ When I came to Joseph and showed him the paper, he said: 'Yes, that is a genuine revelation.'
^ "Stop, father, stop," said Joseph, "it was the angel of the Lord: as I passed by the Hill Cumorah, where the plates are, the angel met me, and said that I had not been engaged enough in the work of the Lord; that the time had come for the record to be brought forth; and that I must be up and doing, and set myself about the things which God had commanded me to do.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The angel "Nephi" visits Joseph and tells him on the gold plates, Urim and Thummim, etc.
[31] .^ This theory posits that Smith may have been a victim of his own delusions, that he truly believed that he was receiving revelations when, in fact, they originated in his subconscious.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ My views are summarized in "Joseph Smith's Family Dynamics," John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 32 (2002); 5,174.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Small stones with naturally occuring holes in them have been especially prized for thier purported magical properties and in many cases, they were believed to be linked directly to the Goddess.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[33] .^ She said she could not tell where they were, or whether they were removed from their place.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Smith, on returning home, asked Emma if she knew whether Joseph had taken the plates from their place of deposit, or if she was able to tell him where they were.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ That is until he claimed to find golden plates inscribed with a message from god, which he ‘translated’ by looking at ‘seer stones’ placed in a man’s hat.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[35]
Founding a new religion (1827–30)
.^ I will now give a sketch of the proceeding of Martin Harris during the time he was absent from Joseph.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, March 1829, at the request of Martin Harris.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[38] .^ That by looking through these, he was able to read in English, the reformed Egyptian characters, which were engraved on the plates.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In this regard, his comment to Oliver B. Huntington is relevant: "Joseph Smith said that some people entirely denounce the principle of self-aggrandizement as wrong.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In addition to replicating aspects of Joseph Smith’s visions and providing an allegorical story of gold plates upon which was written reformed Egyptian, a visionary mushroom is able to provoke Joseph Smith-like millennial zeal.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[40]
.^ Plates, Urim and Thummim taken, returned.
^ Oliver Cowdery, one of the three witnesses to the book, testified under oath, that said Smith found with the plates, from which he translated his book, two transparent stones, resembling glass, set in silver bows.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This was no other than Martin Harris, one of the witnesses to the book subsequent to its being translated.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[42] .^ Central to this is the knowledge that Smith used the same stone to translate the Book of Mormon.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith is known to have used a seer stone to see buried treasure and to "translate" the Book of Mormon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The implications are clear: if Smith translated and received revelations with his stone, did he also locate real buried treasure by the same means?- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[43] The plates themselves were not directly consulted.
[44] .^ FOURTH: While translating, Smith uncovered the Book of Mormon, with the scribe in the room, and just translated it, all casual like.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ I usually reply that the only sure evidence of the Prophet Joseph Smiths divine calling is a personal witness from the Holy Ghost.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The most of them being fond of liquor, I invited them into another room to drink, and thus succeeded in attracting their attention, until Mr. Smith was beyond their reach.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[45]
.^ Because of heavy administrative responsibilities, Joseph had to give up the editorship of the Times and Seasons ; John Taylor is the editor of this issue.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In his history the Prophet introduced it as “a commandment of God and not of man, to Martin Harris, given by him who is Eternal.” .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[48] .^ Our information about the form of the Book of Mormon originally comes from statements in two letters that Professor Charles Anthon wrote years after Martin Harris came to him with a sample of the exotic writing that Joseph Smith had copied off the "gold plates."- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Though the King James Version of the chapter prophesies of Martin Harriss visit to Professor Charles Anthon, the details are more explicit in the Joseph Smith Translation, where the Prophet Joseph is referred to as the man who is not learned: .- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Verse 40 is an excerpt of the angel Moroni's visit with Joseph Smith .- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
[49] .^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, March 1829, at the request of Martin Harris.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Oliver Cowdery, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, April 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[51]
.^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Indeed, very few Mormons of any sort will meet with us, unless they are already having doubts about the Church and want some straight answers.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Evidence for these heinous practices at about the same period of time have been revealed by archaeological excavations, but not until a long time after the Book of Mormon translation was published.- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[52] .^ The donor was indeed a member of *a* Smith family, but one to which genealogists have failed to make any connection to *the* Smith family.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ The admonition of his neighbors, the members of his church, and the importunities of his family, had no impression on his wayward spirit."- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Constable arrests Joseph instead of letting mob take him.
[53] .^ Lucy baptized, "and about the same time Martin Harris and A. Rockwell."
^ At the same time, one cannot ignore Smith's capacity to deceive.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I can see a photographer of the time wanting to take an image of Joseph for his own archives, perhaps Joseph’s copy or original taken contemporaneously being lost.- And Yet Another Joseph Smith Photograph | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
[54] .^ Some said they saw angels etc.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At the direction of Moroni, Joseph Smith takes the plates into his posession on September 22, 1827.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Use of Entheogens to to Discover and Translate the Gold Plates It has been reported that Joseph Smith was typically intoxicated while discovering and translating the Book of Mormon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[56]
.^ With Oliver Cowdery as scribe, Joseph Smith resumes the work of translating the Book of Mormon in earnest on April 7, 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris, at Fayette, New York, June 1829, prior to their viewing the engraved plates that contained the Book of Mormon record.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[58] .^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Peter Whitmer, Jun., at Fayette, New York, June 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Lets see if they will publish the letters and correspondances between church members in the early part of the 1800's where Joseph was having sex with his new polygamous wives in the hotels of rich church members.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Oliver Cowdery delivers the first public discourse of the Church on Sunday, April 11, 1830, at the house of Mr. Peter Whitmer, Sr., Fayette, New York.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Ordain others to offices in the Priesthood.
^ After praying about baptism John the Baptist appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and gives them the Aaronic Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Council of the Presidency of the Church, consisting of Joseph Smith, junior, Sidney Rigdon, David Whitmer , W. W. Phelps , John Whitmer , Hyrum Smith, and Oliver Cowdery " consider Warren A. Cowdery's letter and "certain other reports, derogatory to the character and teaching of the Twelve."
[61] .^ The family is named Smith but they were not members of the Church and did not live in Nauvoo.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ Our information about the form of the Book of Mormon originally comes from statements in two letters that Professor Charles Anthon wrote years after Martin Harris came to him with a sample of the exotic writing that Joseph Smith had copied off the "gold plates."- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They made their feelings known through a primary voice of the Church at the time, the Times and Seasons, many issues of which were “edited, published and printed” by Joseph Smith.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[64] .^ Original: "if all the world should embrace this gospel they wold then see eye to eye & the blessings of God would Be poured out upon the people."- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Testimony of the Eight Witnesses: saw and hefted plates.
^ For example, in Tracy’s previous book on Joseph Smith, he has an analysis that shows that the RLDS church confused Joseph and Hyrum’s skulls when they re-interred them in the 1920s.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
[65] .^ At the direction of Moroni, Joseph Smith takes the plates into his posession on September 22, 1827.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ According to Lu B. Cake, Joseph Smith was intoxicated during his "vision of Moroni" dated September 21, 1823.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Verse 40 is an excerpt of the angel Moroni's visit with Joseph Smith .- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
[66]
.^ He published this book in March 1830.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is in the original 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In March, 1830, the translation was given into the printer"™s hands.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[67] .^ Martain Harris mortgages his farm on August 25, 1829, for three thousand dollars to pay for the initial printing of the Book of Mormon.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Harris Farm Mortgaged .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[68] .^ Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York, April 6, 1830.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ New York Stake was organized.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ April 6, 1830 organize church at Peter Whitmer's house.
[70] .^ It comes from Josiah Stowell, who testified at Smith's 1826 trial.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ See chapter 6 for Smith's 1826 trial.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ For a complete list and discussion of the condemnation of LDS doctrine by the Book of Mormon, see our tract, Those Plain and Precious Things.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[72] Soon after Smith reportedly performed an
exorcism in Colesville,
[73] he was again tried as a
disorderly person but was acquitted.
[74] Even so, Smith and Cowdery had to flee Colesville to escape a gathering mob.
.^ Peter, James, and John to confer Melchizedek priesthood later.
^ Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ After praying about baptism John the Baptist appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and gives them the Aaronic Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[75]
.^ Central to this is the knowledge that Smith used the same stone to translate the Book of Mormon.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The original minutes were recorded by Elders Oliver Cowdery and Orson Hyde.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It is also referred to in Mormon thought as the New Jerusalem.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[78] .^ New York frontier dwellers did not attribute civilization to the native American peoples they knew anything about.- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith made a number of prophecies regarding Missouri as the location of Zion and the gathering place and refuge for the saints.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ They asked Smith to look into his stone again, but Smith refused, stating that the treasure was protected by the spirit of a murdered native American.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[81] .^ Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr., 5 vols., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1960, 3:6364.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They would tell me stories of how Jesus loved all people, how He wasn't there to condemn me but to love me and continued to show me the patience and mercy God would have shown to me.- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ In the ones just sketched, as in the many left unmentioned, we are left to marvel at how Joseph Smith managed to dictate—in a few months and without significant editing—such a book that time and again matches up with life and events in ancient Mesoamerica.- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[82]
.^ They are joined along the way by Sidney Rigdon.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 25, 1834.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Without setting out to do so, he changed the perspective of some early members of the Church of Jesus Christ about the potential location of the lands of the Book of Mormon.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[84] .^ Joseph Smith, in his New York identity as "The Frontier Prophet" was installed in downtown Manhattan, near Wall Street.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ He felt that many of Smith's new teachings had corrupted the church and strongly rejected the doctrine of a plurality of wives and a plurality of Gods.
^ Except in the faction of the Church, including many of the Joseph Smith family that followed James Strang.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[86] .^ Calvin Smith, b c1818 in New York.- Northeastern Smiths DNA Project (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio) 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC smithconnections.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Fluwelling J. Smith, b abt 1831, New York.- Northeastern Smiths DNA Project (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio) 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC smithconnections.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Peter Whitmer, Jun., at Fayette, New York, June 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[88]
Life in Ohio (1831–38)
.^ Indeed, the book's religious appealits defense of God, Jesus, spiritual gifts, call to repentanceargues against presuming that Smith's motives were wholly self-serving.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ D&C 39 , January 5, 1831: James Covill called to be baptized, preach, go to Ohio, gathering, signs of second coming (near).
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 25, 1834.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[92] Rigdon's congregation of converts included a prophetess that Smith declared to be of the devil.
[93] .^ When I called Church hq, the person I talked to wasn’t even interested in looking at another supposed picture of Smith.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, April 23, 1834, concerning the United Order, or the order of the Church for the benefit of the poor.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This book [Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith] features the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, who was called of God to open the dispensation of the fulness of times in these latter days.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[94] .^ This prophecy promises that Smith and his church would triumph over all their foes.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This also promises that Smith would triumph over his enemies.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ D&C 62 , August 13, 1831: Joseph's company meets several elders en route to Zion and receives revelation for them: the missions of John Murdock , Hyrum Smith, Harvey Whitlock , and David Whitmer are not finished, but they may go to Zion and hold a meeting before returning to their labors.
[99] Therefore, in the church's June 1831
general conference,
[100] he introduced the greater authority of a
High ("Melchizedek") Priesthood to the church hierarchy
[101]
.^ After leaving Pennsylvania, Black Pete became one of the earliest converts in Kirtland Ohio joining the Church in early 1831.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But the modern church apparently no longer believes in this gathering, since it encourages new converts to remain in their homelands.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
[102] .^ While there is overlap in our interpretations, we diverge due to a difference regarding which parts of Smith's environment one might expect to find in a given Book of Mormon story.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, December 26, 1835.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Every true Mormon will testify that Joseph Smith was/is a true Prophet of God, yet I doubt if one Mormon in a thousand can accurately recite any 5 of this great Prophet's actual prophecies.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[104] .^ This revelation deals particularly with the affairs of the saints in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, in response to the Prophet’s inquiry of the Lord for information.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Members of the Church in Missouri were at this time subjected to severe persecution, and on July 23, 1833, had been forced to sign an agreement to leave Jackson County.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[106] .^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Site for the city of Zion (the New Jerusalem) in Independance, Missouri, revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ D&C 57.1-3 (1831) identifies Independence, MO as the center place of Zion, the gathering place of the saintsóit is "the land of promise."- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[108] .^ However, the most important evidence for Joseph's divine calling as a prophet of Christ is the Book of Mormon , which is why I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Members of the Church in the branch at Thompson, Ohio, were divided on questions having to do with the consecration of properties.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (That area lies, of course, northward from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which most LDS scholars consider to be the dividing point between the Nephite lands southward and northward.- Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon - How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization? 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC maxwellinstitute.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[109] .^ I give what followed from Burton's City of the Saints , being the statement of President John Taylor, who was present and wounded on the occasion.- Joseph Smith's Death 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March 1832.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It was given to answer questions about those saints who had moved to Zion, but who had not received their inheritances according to the established order in the Church.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[110] .^ It was given to answer questions about those saints who had moved to Zion, but who had not received their inheritances according to the established order in the Church.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ How any Government with all the accumulating proof can sill regard this as a religion and entrust with political power the men who entertained it, is beyond all comprehension.
^ FULFILLED?: The United Order (holding all property in common) failed, even though the saints tried valiantly to make it work.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
[112] .^ Joseph is acquitted, constable helps him avoid mob that intends to tar and feather him.
[113]
.^ Those letters spoke for themselves as from a truthful, conscientious and intelligent man, still suffering in his feelings from his former connection with the religious and political fraud, Mormonism.
[114] .^ Again, there is little basis for such conclusions, for popular views on these topics would not have guided Joseph Smith to create the fabric of the Book of Mormon.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith prophesies that within five years the Mormons would be able to live without cooking their food.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.exmormon.org [Source type: Original source]
[117] .^ Both parties then armed to defend themselves, and a sort of guerrilla warfare was kept up in the county for some weeks.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Mormons didn't march into Jackson County by 1842óin fact, they still haven't.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The guard began to be more severe in their operations, threatening among themselves, and telling what they would do when the excitement was over.- Joseph Smith's Death 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
[119] .^ Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[122] .^ Nor was "Zion" redeemed at that time; as church history itself shows.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Zion, Jackson County, Missouri, August 7, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[124] .^ They will have to wait until the time of redemption shall come, and that in Hell."- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ They will have to wait until the time of redemption shall come and that in hell."- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ But [they are] not to commence to do this until the temple is built up here and the elders endowed.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[127]
.^ Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Prophet had come from Kirtland at the head of a party known as Zion’s Camp, bringing clothing and provisions.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "President Jospeh Smith left Kirkland, Ohio, for Missouri as leader of Zion's Camp to bring releif to Saints expelled from Jackson County."- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[130] .^ Zion's Camp was an armed crusade of Mormons sent out by "revelation" to go to Missouri and rescue their fellow Latter-day Saints there.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[131] .^ May 2 change name of church to Church of the Latter Day Saints.
^ They did not return as Zion's Camp.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ [This applies] to the present state of the Church of Latter-day Saints.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[134] .^ Doctrine and Covenants , Section 135, verse 4) .- Joseph Smith's Death 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
^ One of the most significant sections of the Doctrine and Covenants is D&C #132, which deals with the plural marriage(polygamy) revelation.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph, soon after his arrival, had a house built for us, near his own, and one that was more commodious than that which we previously occupied.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[136] .^ For example, in Tracy’s previous book on Joseph Smith, he has an analysis that shows that the RLDS church confused Joseph and Hyrum’s skulls when they re-interred them in the 1920s.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As things have turned out, however, Stephens’s writings go a long way in testifying that Joseph Smith translated rather than authored the Book of Mormon.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[137] .^ They were not standing and speaking when they had a spiritual experience.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He later dedicated the Kirtland Temple on 27 March 1836.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But [they are] not to commence to do this until the temple is built up here and the elders endowed.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[139] During the period, 1834–1837, Smith was at relative peace with the world.
[140]
.^ In January 1838 the Prophet Joseph Smith fled from Kirtland to escape the enemies who were seeking his life.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A vision given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio, January 21, 1836.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the Book of Mormon, Smith integrates the treasure-seer's world view into his religious beliefs, describing cursed and slippery treasures (Hel.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[142] .^ In an 1835 letter to members of the Church, Oliver Cowdery noted that Moroni also taught Joseph Smith passages from Jeremiah 16, 3031; Isaiah 12; Psalms 91:6; 100; 107; 144; and 146:10; and other biblical passages.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They made their feelings known through a primary voice of the Church at the time, the Times and Seasons, many issues of which were “edited, published and printed” by Joseph Smith.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Such statements succeeded in misleading many Mormons who remained unaware that Smith practiced polygamy.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[144] .^ At this point in time (1830), Joseph Smith’s entire frame of reference about the “latter-day Lamanites” of the Book of Mormon was associated with Lamanites in the United States of America.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Section 89 of the Doctrine and Covenants contains a revelation given to Joseph Smith in 1833 known as the Word of Wisdom .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He felt that many of Smith's new teachings had corrupted the church and strongly rejected the doctrine of a plurality of wives and a plurality of Gods.
[147] .^ In a few days we were followed by Joseph, Oliver, and the Whitmers, who came to make us a visit, and make some arrangements about getting the book printed.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ However, because of civil strife throughout the region, no one knew who was in charge or where the capital was located.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Here he stopped at the house of one John P. Green, who was a Methodist minister, and was at that time about starting on a preaching mission.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[149]
Even more troubling was Kirtland's financial state.
.^ The Prophet Joseph Smith is the latter-day forerunner who prepared the way for the building of temples and the restoration of temple ordinances.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
^ FULFILLED?: Joseph Smith and other prominent Mormons had to flee Kirtland to avoid their creditors, leaving debts of thousands of dollars unpaid.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The first building the Prophet Joseph Smith dedicated cornerstones for was the temple in Independence , Missouri , on 3 August 1831.- Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Rod of the Stem of Jesse 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.vibrationdata.com [Source type: Original source]
[150] .^ This mission was ordered by a revelation that Smith claimed he had received from God.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith received a revelation telling him to go to Salem, Massachusetts.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
^ D&C 111 has a very strange revelation about treasures in Salem, MA: "I have much treasure in this city for you, for the benefit of Zion, and many people in this city, whom I will gather out in due time for the benefit of Zion, through your instrumentalityand it shall come to pass in due time that I will give this city into your hands, that you shall have power over it, insomuch that they shall not discover your secret parts; and its wealth, pertaining to gold and silver shall be yours.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[152] After a month, he returned empty-handed.
[153] .^ Prior to this a bank was established in Kirtland.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ A vision given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio, January 21, 1836.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In The Millennial Star , volume 19, p.343, Smith proclaimed that his Kirtland Anti-Banking Society was to "swallow up all other banks."- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[154] .^ Duty of the saints in relation to their persecutors, as set forth by Joseph Smith the Prophet, while a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, March 1839.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, March 1841, concerning the saints in the Territory of Iowa.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith says it is "wisdom and according to the mind of the Holy Spirit" that the saints should invest in the Kirtland Safety Society.- Joseph Smith as a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC packham.n4m.org [Source type: Original source]
[156] The bank failed within a month.
[157] As a result, the Kirtland Saints suffered intense pressure from debt collectors and severe price volatility.
[158] .^ They made their feelings known through a primary voice of the Church at the time, the Times and Seasons, many issues of which were “edited, published and printed” by Joseph Smith.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Because of failure on the part of many to abide by this covenant, the Lord withdrew it for a time, and gave instead the law of tithing to the whole Church.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Many of Joseph Smith’s teachings have been quoted from the History of the Church .- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[160] After a warrant was issued for Smith's arrest on a charge of banking fraud, Smith and Rigdon fled Kirtland for Missouri on the night of January 12, 1838.
[161]Life in Missouri (1838–39)
.^ Court of inquiry at Liberty arrests Col. Pitcher for driving Saints from Jackson County.
^ Again, the intent behind the organization of the General Council was to establish the Saints in the West under their own political laws, "subject to the Constitution."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After Oliver and John leave for Jackson county, Joseph and Sidney resume translation of the scriptures.
.^ OUT OF MORMONISM tells the autobiographical story of Judy Robertson's experience in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ Mormonism 101 Jesus Christ / Joseph Smith more...- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ Cited in History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1836-1844, ed.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[165] .^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838, in response to the supplication: “Show us thy will, O Lord, concerning the Twelve.” HC 3: 46–47.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Let them take leave of my saints in the city of Far west on the twenty-sixth day of April next, on the building spot of my house, saith the Lord.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The immediate incentive to commence organizing the Government of God came with Joseph Smith's effort to move the Saints to the West.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[166] .^ To support this claim, Swanson cites public statements from 19th-century LDS Church leaders, including Brigham Young, who wrote in 1859, "Hidden in the blood of many LDS runs the blood of Israel from numerous directions, including that of the Savior.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ They made their feelings known through a primary voice of the Church at the time, the Times and Seasons, many issues of which were “edited, published and printed” by Joseph Smith.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like many of those who directly witnessed the early church and its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., Josiah Quicy described himself as "[standing] helpless before the puzzle" of Mormonism.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[167]
.^ Mormons see a conspiracy against their faith at every turn and discount all contrary evidence as another prop in the elaborate scheme to hide the truth of the Mormon revelation.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But the ecstatic mystical experiences of the kabbalists, even though sometimes called prophecy, bear little resemblance to the experiences of Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I truly believe that this recent picture could very possibly be a picture of Joseph Smith Jr. Just a thought but I think it could possibly be him.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
[168] With his knowledge and at least partial approval,
[169] recent convert
Sampson Avard formed a covert organization called the
Danites[170] to intimidate Mormon dissenters and oppose anti-Mormon militia units.
[171] .^ Sidney Rigdon works as a tanner and lives in a small, unfinished frame house wife, and six children.
^ "Council of the Presidency of the Church, consisting of Joseph Smith, junior, Sidney Rigdon, David Whitmer , W. W. Phelps , John Whitmer , Hyrum Smith, and Oliver Cowdery " consider Warren A. Cowdery's letter and "certain other reports, derogatory to the character and teaching of the Twelve."
^ Hearing that a large amount of money would be available to them in Salem, the Prophet, Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, and Oliver Cowdery traveled there from Kirtland, Ohio, to investigate this claim, along with preaching the gospel.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[172] .^ An analysis of Mormon thought leads one to conclude that Joseph Smith and his associates did not necessarily expect the new world order to be ushered in immediately.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The answer may be that peyote put Joseph Smith in contact with ancient Amerindian cultures gifting him with the material that was later incorporated into the Book of Mormon .- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the Book of Mormon, Smith integrates the treasure-seer's world view into his religious beliefs, describing cursed and slippery treasures (Hel.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[175] .^ Instead of protecting a persecuted people, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an extermination order calling for the murder of the Mormons if they remained.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[176] After Rigdon's oration, Smith shouted "Hosannah!"
[177] and allowed the speech to be published as a pamphlet.
[178]
.^ This is, of course, the leading tactic in anti-Mormon writings: misrepresent LDS teachings with something easily attacked, and then attack the new (but bogus) target.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Prophet, Sidney Rigdon, and Oliver Cowdery had arrived in Kirtland on August 27, from their visit to Missouri.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "At the August election, 1838, a riot occurred at Gallatin between the Mormons and the Gentiles.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[179] .^ An election took place at Gallatin, the county-seat of Daviess County; the brethren went to the polls, as usual, but, on attempting to vote, they were forbidden by the mob.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Mob violence against the saints in Missouri had increased, and organized bodies from several counties had declared their intent to destroy the people.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It is interesting to compare Owens's presentation of his theory to a non-Mormon, New Age audience with that found in Dialogue .- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Read more about this incident on my page about Missouri and the 1838 "Mormon War" .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The nine examples on page 184 are: might, although there is no evidence, probable (twice), may have, suggests, perhaps (three times), and probably.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Why is there no copy in any of the many early Mormon albums donated to LDS Archives?- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
.^ In D&C 124.27-36, (1841) through Joseph Smith, the god of Mormonism gave an ultimatum to the LDS people in Nauvoo, IL in the form of this prophecy/commandment.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ No other evidence of Joseph Smith's divine calling is more worthy of consideration and more powerful than the Book of Mormon .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To Joseph Smith and other leaders of the Church in the early 1840s, Stephens’s writings proved the legitimacy of Book of Mormon claims about cities and civilizations.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[185] Before a cheering crowd of Saints, Smith declared that should there be non-Mormon attacks, Mormons would establish their "religion by the sword" and that he would be "a second
Mohammed."
[186] His angry rhetoric possibly stirred up greater militancy among Mormons than he intended.
[187] When Mormons attacked the Missouri state
militia at the
Battle of Crooked River,
[188] Governor Boggs ordered that the Mormons be "exterminated or driven from the state."
[189] Before word of this order got out, non-Mormons vigilantes surprised and killed about 40 Mormons, including children, in the
Haun's Mill massacre, effectively ending the war.
[190]
Smith was held for four months in Liberty jail.
On November 1, 1838, the Saints surrendered to 2,500 state troops, and agreed to forfeit their property and leave the state.
[191] .^ This lady claimed that Joseph Smith was "my servant" who restored temple work and thus Joseph saved us.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ This son was President Alexander Hale Smith, who was born on the 2d.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But, then again, it is infinitely more probable, given the welter of corroborating evidence, that Smith went to court for claiming he could find treasure by looking into a magic rock.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[192] .^ If this court record is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For example, Jonathan Thompson, testifying in Smith's defense at the 1826 court hearing, reported that Smith once located a treasure chest with a seer stone.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But, then again, it is infinitely more probable, given the welter of corroborating evidence, that Smith went to court for claiming he could find treasure by looking into a magic rock.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[194] .^ The other entries on the bill, and even other bills involving JS’s future trials, specify the charge involved (e.g., "assault and battery," "petit larceny"), 92 but JS’s simply says "Misdemeanor."- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph made while Joseph was held captive in Missouri, awaiting trial.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Duty of the saints in relation to their persecutors, as set forth by Joseph Smith the Prophet, while a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, March 1839.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[195].^ Marvin S. Hill, at the time a professor of history at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University, cautioned against approaching Smith solely in either/or terms.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ" Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Are we to believe that Joseph Smith secretly transmitted such an idea to Brigham Young?- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[197] Under Young's leadership, about 14,000 Saints
[198] made their way to Illinois and searched for land to purchase.
[199] .^ However, we have no evidence of any instance in which Joseph Smith disclaimed or retracted any statements he had made in the Times and Seasons or disclaimed his responsibility for any of the Times and Seasons content about John Lloyd Stephens.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As things have turned out, however, Stephens’s writings go a long way in testifying that Joseph Smith translated rather than authored the Book of Mormon.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this point in time (1830), Joseph Smith’s entire frame of reference about the “latter-day Lamanites” of the Book of Mormon was associated with Lamanites in the United States of America.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[200] He did not deny responsibility for the Danites, but he said he had been ignorant of Avard's extreme militancy.
[201] Though it had not been an issue in his preliminary hearing, he denied rumors of
polygamy,
[202] as he quietly planned how to reveal the principle to his followers.
[203] .^ Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Now we read that many bodies of the saints arose, at Christ's resurrection, probably all the saints, but it seems that David did not.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[204] .^ For the information of our friends who do not possess this work, we may at a convenient time collect and compare many of the important items in this work, and in the Book of Mormon, and publish them .49 .- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1976, non-Mormon psychologist T. L. Brink argued that Smith's fears of persecution were based on reality and did not exhibit pathological or delusional qualities.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And how could it be a fit at all, when there was so little information about it at the time the Book of Mormon [was] published?- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[205]
.^ Although they try hard to keep the LDS god's commandment, he does not seem to be keeping his end of the bargain, or else Joseph Smith is a false prophet!- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They are to travel in pairs, preaching along the way, and take different routes (to reach as many people as possible).
^ During the month of December the LDS church will celebrate two hundred years since the birth of Joseph Smith.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
[207]
Life in Nauvoo, Illinois (1839–44)
.^ See letter from Joseph Smith to his wife Emma Smith on June 4, 1834, from the banks of the Mississippi River in western Illinois; Joseph was traveling with Zion’s Camp when he wrote this letter.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[210] .^ Nevertheless, there is a high degree of sincerity in Smith's career as a prophet, his defense of God against deism and skepticism.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[212] .^ On the other hand, the Saints were to help the Texas government "defend themselves against Mexico , standing as a go-between [between] the billigerant powers."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[214] .^ Marvin S. Hill, at the time a professor of history at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University, cautioned against approaching Smith solely in either/or terms.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ" Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ On the matter of tenure, Brigham young declared that a clause limiting a president to two terms should not be found in the Constitution of the United States , nor in the constitution made by this on any other people."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[216] .^ Although a few of these men later returned to the church, none of them were even close to the standards necessary for attainment of that highest degree of glory.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Southern States would call upon other nations for assistance, even upon the nation of Great Britain.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ By any reasonable standard, "not many days" could not be construed to be more than 58,000 days; and yet none of these things have occurred.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[217]
.^ Nephi 30.6 prophesies that the Indians who converted would turn "white and delightsome" a few generations after joining the church.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Simply a further assertion that "Bennett's interests, including religion, medicine, the military, and Masonry, suggest a person inclined towards investigating the more esoteric aspects of Masonry" (p.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[218] .^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Instructions given by Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois, February 9, 1843.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In October 1832, Smith visited New York City and resided at 88 Pearl Street.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
[220] .^ Thus, it was not Lucy Smith's flash of surgical insight and persuasive power that convinced the pessimistic surgeons to do as she 'had requested' in saving Joseph's leg.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After dinner Judge Douglas requested President Smith to give him a history of the Missouri persecution, which he did in a very minute manner for about three hours.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These early Church members sought direct experience with God and believed that Joseph Smith had the power to grant their desires.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[222] The charter also authorized the
Nauvoo Legion an autonomous
militia[223] with actions limited only by state and federal constitutions.
[224] .^ On March 11, 1844, Joseph Smith organized a body of men as the nucleus of the new government.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[226] .^ The following text is taken from the daily Journal of William Clayton (the private secretary of President Smith, who was present at the interview described) as reported by B. H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church , Vol.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was well known that Mr. Douglas had been on terms of intimate friendship with President Joseph Smith, and was well acquainted with the other church leaders.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ However, James Strang and Fredrick M. Smith (Joseph Smith's grandson and president of the RLDS Church) perpetuated the use of psychedelics in their branches of Joseph Smith's original movement.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[229] .^ The scope of the warning was centered on the generation in which the Mormons were still calling on their converts to leave their homes, cities and countries and Come to Zion .- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It has stood, and now stands, as the arbiter of the world, the judge of the nations, and the rebuker of tyrants throughout the world: it is the standard of freedom, both civil and religious.- Church History Volume 2, Chapter 9 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ To Joseph Smith and other leaders of the Church in the early 1840s, Stephens’s writings proved the legitimacy of Book of Mormon claims about cities and civilizations.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[230]
Smith planned the construction of the
Nauvoo Temple, but it was not completed until after his death.
.^ These associations culminated in Nauvoo, the period of his most important doctrinal and ritual innovations.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The baptism for the dead done in holy temples?- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ In D&C 124.27-36, (1841) through Joseph Smith, the god of Mormonism gave an ultimatum to the LDS people in Nauvoo, IL in the form of this prophecy/commandment.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[232] An 1841 revelation promised the restoration of the "
fulness of the priesthood,"
[233] and in May 1842, Smith inaugurated a revised
endowment or "first anointing."
[234] The endowment resembled rites of
freemasonry that Smith had observed two months earlier when he had been initiated into the Nauvoo Masonic lodge.
.^ Such tentative language is only occasionally found in the first part of his article, which is mainly concerned with a summary of the history of the esoteric traditions.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When the nucleus of the Government of God was first organized by the Prophet, Brigham Young reported that it had as members "several" men who "were not members of the Church."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Of the four Latter-day Saint men in that jail when the mob attacked and murdered Joseph Smith, Willard Richards was the only one of the four who was not shot.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
For women, Smith introduced the
Relief Society, a
service club and
sorority within which Smith predicted women would receive "the
keys of the kingdom."
[236] Smith also elaborated on his plan for a millennial kingdom, no longer envisioning the building of
Zion in Nauvoo.
[237] .^ "The land of Zion consists of all North and South America.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The whole America is Zion itself, from North to South.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ That is the Zion where the mountain of the Lord's house shall be, about the central part of North and South America.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[240] Zion also became became less a refuge from an impending
Tribulation than a great building project.
[241] .^ We speak of the kingdom of God on the earth, not the kingdoms of men.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The earth is groaning under corruption, oppression, tyranny and bloodshed; and God is coming out of His hiding place, as He said He would do, to vex the nations of the earth.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The heathen nations who will not come up to worship will be visited with the judgments of God, and must eventually be destroyed from the earth.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
[242]
.^ This prank turned into a small industry as the sisters and hundreds of others became "mediums" through whom the dead contacted the living during seances.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In May of that year, Smith proclaimed this: " I have more to boast of than any man ever had.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One of the clearest evidences of this is his repeated public denial during the early 1840s of his own and others' plural marriages.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[244] and about a third of them teenagers, including two fourteen-year-old girls.
[245] Meanwhile he publicly and repeatedly denied that he advocated polygamy.
[246] .^ I, too, want to understand Smith on his own terms, but I would like to be able to explain him.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Doniphan told him that his partner, Mr. Baldwin, was absent at the moment, but as soon as he had an opportunity he would consult him and decide about the matter.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[247] .^ The date given in these minutes is no doubt an error, as Joseph Smith was engaged throughout the day in activities of a non-political nature.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus certainly did not come in "about 1890."- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After dinner Judge Douglas requested President Smith to give him a history of the Missouri persecution, which he did in a very minute manner for about three hours.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[248] .^ One of the most significant sections of the Doctrine and Covenants is D&C #132, which deals with the plural marriage(polygamy) revelation.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ That means that almost all Mormons except for 30,000 or so "fundamentalists" today (who still keep the original commandments of plural marriage) are damned!- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
Bennett, on the other hand, ignored even perfunctory ceremonies.
[250] .^ About the time that John C. Bennett left Nauvoo, an election was held for the office of mayor, and Joseph, being one of the candidates, was elected to that office.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Senator from Illinois was said to have declared that "he would resign his seat in Congress if he could command the force that Mr. Smith could, and would be on the march to the country in a month."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus united through the assistance of religious and spiritual forces, the society of Zion was expected to develop the new social and economic principles revealed through Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
In retaliation, Bennett wrote "lurid exposés of life in Nauvoo."
[251]
By mid-1842, popular opinion had turned against the Saints.
[252] .^ Holzapfel in turn forwarded my query to Dr. Ronald Kent Esplin, who was the managing editor of the Joseph Smith Papers Project at that time.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ During the Nauvoo period, a principal antagonist of the Church of Jesus Christ was Thomas C. Sharp, who was editor of the Warsaw Signal .- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Dear Sir: I see, in the last ‘Warsaw Signal,’ a very wanton and ungentlemanly attack upon yourself, made by the editor of that paper.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[253] .^ The exterminating order issued by Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor of Missouri, dated October 27, 1838, had left them no alternative.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Instead of protecting a persecuted people, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an extermination order calling for the murder of the Mormons if they remained.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Because of Joseph’s role as editor, printer, and publisher of the October 1, 1842, issue of Times and Seasons , we can attribute the next two sentences to Joseph Smith: .- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[255] .^ Speaking about this statement by Joseph Smith, Bruce Porter and Rod Meldrum, two of the originators of the Heartland Model, say: “The interpretation of the phrase ‘former inhabitants of this continent’ must, for clarity of understanding, have one of two meanings or conclusions.- Ted Dee Stoddard -Joseph Smith and John Lloyd Stephens | Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.bmaf.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Is there evidence to suggest that Joseph Smith gifted new converts with visionary experience by adding a visionary plant such as Datura to sacramental wine?- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith promised Orrin Porter Rockwell, his bodyguard and the great "Destroying Angel" that no bullet or blade in the hands of his enemies would harm him if he remained loyal, true to his faith and did not cut his hair.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[256] .^ But, then again, it is infinitely more probable, given the welter of corroborating evidence, that Smith went to court for claiming he could find treasure by looking into a magic rock.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Senator from Illinois was said to have declared that "he would resign his seat in Congress if he could command the force that Mr. Smith could, and would be on the march to the country in a month."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He and Hyrum Smith, being high Masons, went into the house to perform some ceremonies which the others were not entitled to witness.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[257] Rockwell was tried and acquitted.
[258] .^ Instructions given by Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois, February 9, 1843.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Items of instruction given by Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Ramus, Illinois, April 2, 1843.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[259] Ford later wrote that this incident caused a majority of Illinois residents to favor expelling Mormons from Illinois.
[260].^ Some who have known them all their lives and respected their goodness suddenly see them as evil; hide your women and children, here come Brad and Chris.- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ Specifically, in the instance that Thompson reported, was there an actual trunk and did Smith really see two Indians who had fought over it?- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[261] .^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Interestingly, Joseph Smith’s grandson, Frederick M. Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in Amerindian peyote ceremonies.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I argue that the Smith children, first Alvin and then Joseph Jr., were drawn into their parents' dynamic in an attempt to save their marriage.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[262] .^ One of the clearest evidences of this is his repeated public denial during the early 1840s of his own and others' plural marriages.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Even in Utah, the power of the church was ultimately broken by the federal government who forced the church leaders to submit to government authority and to do away with their cherished doctrine of plural marriage!- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[264] In response, Smith dictated a revelation
[265] declaring that if Emma refused to accept Smith's other wives, she would be "destroyed."
[266] When Smith's brother
Hyrum presented the revelation to Emma, she abused him.
[267] .^ Joseph Smith was anointed first and in turn he anointed several of the Brethren.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Robert D. Anderson, "Toward an Introduction to a Psychobiography of Joseph Smith," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27 (Fall 1994): 268-72; rpt.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I argue that the Smith children, first Alvin and then Joseph Jr., were drawn into their parents' dynamic in an attempt to save their marriage.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[269] .^ At this conference Joseph Smith was sustained and ordained President of the High Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Frederick G. Williams is called to be a high priest and a counselor in the Presidency of the High Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When the house is done, [the] baptismal font erected and finished, and the worthy are washed, anointed, endowed, and ordained kings and priests, .- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[270] .^ At that time Joseph Smith indicated that the Church and the political kingdom were two separate bodies.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[271]
.^ If the reader does not know just what to make of Joseph Smith, I cannot help him out of the difficulty.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The only thing Smith got right was that they would petition all the authorities and be turned down.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was in December, 1832, the same month in which the revelation and prophecy under consideration was given, that this issue between South Carolina and the Federal government about reached its climax.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[273] .^ Beginning in the 1830s, LDS missionaries carried manuscript copies of the above revelation with them in their missionary journeys, and "frequently read it to their congregations in various parts of the United States" (Roberts, p.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We have many accounts of people visiting Emma Smith and she showed them a painting, manuscripts and other things that Joseph owned.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ They, too, envisioned a stable and united government that excluded political parties from affairs of government.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[275] .^ In the spring of 1844, Joseph organized a council of fifty.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On March 11, 1844, Joseph Smith organized a body of men as the nucleus of the new government.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The law for the government of all nations will go forth from Zion , the same as the laws for the government of the United States now go forth from Washington .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[278] .^ The territory then under consideration as a place of settlement for the Saints "was a portion of the territory in dispute between Texas and Mexico ."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In his second letter, dated April 26th, Hyde reported that the Mormon delegates in Washington had held a long conversation with Stephen A. Douglas; and reported that "he is ripe for Oregon and the California ."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Under this state of alarm, excitement, and distress, the messengers returned from the governor, and from the other authorities, bringing the fatal news that the 'Mormons' could have no assistance.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[280] In effect, the Council was a shadow world government,
[281] a first step toward creating a global "
theodemocracy."
[282] One of the Council's first acts was to ordain Smith as king of this millennial monarchy.
[283]
Death
General Joseph Smith addressing the
Nauvoo Legion shortly before his death in 1844
Pepper-box pistol used by Joseph Smith to defend himself on June 27, 1844
.^ Whilst we were in this situation, a young man, by the name of Grant, brother-in-law to my brother, William Smith, came to see us, and put up at the tavern where General Clark made his quarters.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The name of the messenger was Charles C. Rich, who is now brigadier-general in the Nauvoo Legion.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ These associations culminated in Nauvoo, the period of his most important doctrinal and ritual innovations.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[285] .^ The JSPP team has not issued any statement about this image; some project members privately believe it *is* a Joseph Smith image, while others are equally adamant that it is not.- Rumor-Mongering: Joseph Smith Daguerreotype | Times & Seasons 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC timesandseasons.org [Source type: General]
^ They want me to speak about Joseph Smith and how he was misjudged by the world.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Verse 54 threatens Emma Smith with destruction is she doesn't let Joseph have all of his wives without complaint and acknowledge the divine origins of plural marriage.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[287] .^ Died Murdered by mob, June 27, 1844, in Carthage Jail, Hancock County, Illinois, while under the protection of Governor Thomas Ford.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ It was well known that Mr. Douglas had been on terms of intimate friendship with President Joseph Smith, and was well acquainted with the other church leaders.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This is a part of the farce acted out by the grand jury of Daviess County, while they stood over us as guards for ten nights successively.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[291] .^ There are lights upon lights, one more clear than another, each one dark by comparison with the one above it from which it receives its light.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Until the publication of Lee's diaries, neither Melville or I realized that the government of God was more than an ideal in early Latter-day Saint thought-that there had been an actual political organ started by Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Although it is impossible to know for sure, the scant evidence indicates that neither Neibaur nor Joseph Smith had more than a basic knowledge of biblical Aramaic.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[293] .^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is officially organized according to the laws of New York on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York, with six founding members.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith said that it was not the Lord's will that the Inspired Version of the New Testament portion of the Bible be published in Newspapers.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This concept of separation of Church and State was also emphasized when, following the death of Joseph Smith, George Miller and Alex Badlam wanted "to call together the Council of Fifty and organize the Church."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[295]
.^ William Purple published what he called a first-hand account in 1877 in the Chenango Union .- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The last item written by Joseph Smith in his journal is an entry from Saturday, June 22, 1844, now recorded in History of the Church , Vol.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Even if verified, the Pearsall accounts provide incomplete witness accounts, are sometimes self-contradictory, and contradict the only published first-hand account in many critical details.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[296] .^ "He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ" Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol.- The Mormon Curtain - JOSEPH SMITH - WORSHIP 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Such statements succeeded in misleading many Mormons who remained unaware that Smith practiced polygamy.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ King Follett Discourse: Cannon, 37-38; Writings of Joseph Smith, 358; Larson, 202; TPJS, 348.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[299] .^ On May 13th, Joseph Smith attended a meeting of the General Council, at which time two letters from Orson Hyde were read.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Back at the center of Mormon activities in Nauvoo, Joseph Smith reported that on May 2, 1844, Lucien Woodworth returned from Texas , where he had been sent by the General Council pursuant to their meeting of March 14th.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Emma was so opposed to polygamy, that she went off with Joseph's son, Joseph Smith III and started the RLDS church, which denies that Smith ever taught polygamy.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[300] .^ This publication was the famous Nauvoo Expositor.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[302]
The murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
.^ He then said to himself that if he should be enabled, by any means to do this work sooner than the same had ever been done on the farm before, he would receive it as an evidence that it was the will of God that he should do all in his power to assist Joseph Smith in the work in which he was engaged.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Here we might have enjoyed ourselves, but Mr. Smith continued to sink, his health constantly failing, until we found that medicine was of no benefit to him.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[303] Destruction of the newspaper provoked a strident call to arms by
Thomas C. Sharp, editor of the
Warsaw Signal.
[304] Fearing an uprising, Smith mobilized the
Nauvoo Legion on June 18 and declared
martial law.
.^ Died Murdered by mob, June 27, 1844, in Carthage Jail, Hancock County, Illinois, while under the protection of Governor Thomas Ford.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ An epistle from Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, containing directions on baptism for the dead; dated at Nauvoo, September 1, 1842.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One year later he was chosen a member of the High Council at Commerce [afterwards called Nauvoo], Illinois.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[305] .^ Part of this revelation is quoted in the "Minutes of the Council of Fifty," op.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Probably in the late spring or early summer of 1814, the Smiths returned across the Connecticut River to Norwich, Vermont.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Probably during the summer or fall of 1812, the Smiths moved across the Connecticut River to Lebanon, New Hampshire.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Neither of these countries would have been willing to see so large a body as the Latter-day Saints occupy this disputed territory under the flag of the other country.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Just 30 days from making that boast, on June 27, 1844; Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage jail.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Martyrdom of Joseph Smith the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum Smith the Patriarch, at Carthage, Illinois, June 27, 1844.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to his brother Hyrum Smith, at Harmony, Pennsylvania, May 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[307] .^ Crimes the most repulsive murders, robberies, rebellion and high treason were falsely charged against its leaders.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance Against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Just 30 days from making that boast, on June 27, 1844; Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage jail.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph would be killed 5 years later by conspiring enemies of the Church while he was held in another prison, Carthage Jail in Illinois.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shortly thereafter he and Hyrum were placed in Carthage Jail and then murdered by a mob.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[308] .^ Died Murdered by mob, June 27, 1844, in Carthage Jail, Hancock County, Illinois, while under the protection of Governor Thomas Ford.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Footnotes: 1. The organization of the Nauvoo Legion was authorized by act of the Legislature of Illinois in 1840.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In D&C 124.27-36, (1841) through Joseph Smith, the god of Mormonism gave an ultimatum to the LDS people in Nauvoo, IL in the form of this prophecy/commandment.- The false prophet, Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.saintsalive.com [Source type: Original source]
[309] Later that day, an armed group with blackened faces stormed the jail and killed Hyrum instantly with a shot to the face.
[310] .^ While we were getting into them, there came up four or five men armed with guns, who drew up and snapped their pistols at us in order to kill us.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[312] Smith was buried in Nauvoo.
[313] Five men were tried for his murder; all were
acquitted.
[314]
Distinctive views and teachings
Cosmology and theology
.^ Hence, we infer that God Himself had materials to organize the world out of chaos—chaotic matter—which is element and in which dwells all the glory.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[316] .^ Indeed, I am baffled as to how anyone could be expected to read this passage from the Zohar , and come up with Joseph Smith's understanding of creation and the nature of God.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ What a young Joseph Smith could have learned from a rodsman, ensconced only in a [folk] magic world view, is less important to his religious development than the kinds of ideas a Hermetic initiate might have stimulated.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That the General Council was involved in these matters is evident not only from Miller's comments but also from the following notation made by Joseph Smith, April 25th: .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[318] .^ We were all pre-existent spirits?- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ God has administrators in the eternal world to release those spirits from prison.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ God has administrators in the eternal world to release those spirits from Prison the ordinances being administered by proxy upon them the law is fulfilled."- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[319] Nevertheless, spirits were incapable of experiencing a "fulness of joy" unless joined with corporeal bodies.
[320] Embodiment, therefore, was the purpose of earth life.
[321] .^ Hence, we infer that God Himself had materials to organize the world out of chaos—chaotic matter—which is element and in which dwells all the glory.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The most oft-quoted phrase in Mormonism, next to "The glory of God is Intelligence," is "Adam fell that man might be, and man is that he might have joy."- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And now, because of the glory of the world and to get gain will they say this, and not for the glory of God.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
[323]
.^ God lives near a star called Kolob?- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ In the spring of 1958, this volume came from the press as the first published analysis of the government of God and its role in Latter-day Saint history in recent times, giving the results of my research on the activities of the General Council to that time.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ My father had never been active for more than a year at a time but my mother was greatly disappointed in me for this one.- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
[327] .^ Deification means to abandon the physical body and for the mind to ascend and again become part of God's Mind; 36 both God and the divine part of humans are incorporeal.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Still, when the Kingdom of God triumphs, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, to the glory of the Father.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
(The
Holy Spirit was also a distinct being but did not have a body.)
.^ God and his wife achieved a celestial marriage?- Mormon Theology: Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: General]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, as also plurality of wives.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ An analysis of Mormon thought leads one to conclude that Joseph Smith and his associates did not necessarily expect the new world order to be ushered in immediately.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[329] .^ That the faithful shall be even as Christ and the Father certainly implies human deification, and thereby plurality of gods.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[330] .^ It was held that the Kingdom of God would restore the true concept of government as envisioned by the Founding Fathers in 1787.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These keys would initiate the turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was held that in some future day the Kingdom of God would have two great centers of world government the City of Zion on our Western continent, and Jerusalem .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[331]
.^ All this is radically different from Joseph Smith's understanding of the nature of God and human deification.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It can be conjectured that, had Joseph Smith lived and gone to Texas , he too would have applied for statehood in the Union as soon as conditions were favorable.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is officially organized according to the laws of New York on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York, with six founding members.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Is such a proposition at all helpful in explaining the origin of the idea of plurality of gods in Latter-day Saint theology?- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No uniquely kabbalistic ideas or terms surface in Latter-day Saint thought.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[332] .^ In 1797 Joseph Smith and Lucy have their first child, who dies that same year.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Moses, the man of God, who killed an Egyptian persecutor of the children of Israel, was driven from his country and kindred.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In bringing his two dead children to the tree, he rejected the orthodox idea that children who die without baptism are damned.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[333] .^ This theory posits that Smith may have been a victim of his own delusions, that he truly believed that he was receiving revelations when, in fact, they originated in his subconscious.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like many of those who directly witnessed the early church and its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., Josiah Quicy described himself as "[standing] helpless before the puzzle" of Mormonism.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ An analysis of Mormon thought leads one to conclude that Joseph Smith and his associates did not necessarily expect the new world order to be ushered in immediately.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[335]
Religious authority and ritual
.^ However, James Strang and Fredrick M. Smith (Joseph Smith's grandson and president of the RLDS Church) perpetuated the use of psychedelics in their branches of Joseph Smith's original movement.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In his 1975 book, Hearts Made Glad , Lamar Petersen carefully documented the use of intoxicants by Joseph Smith and early converts to the LDS Church.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Interestingly, Joseph Smith’s grandson, Frederick M. Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in Amerindian peyote ceremonies.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Kingdom of God when established will not be for the protection of the Church of Jesus Christ alone, but for the protection of all men, whatever their religious views or opinions may be.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Since the Church was to play an important role in establishing the Government of God on the earth, the organization of the Church has been considered as the beginning of the latter organization.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[336] .^ This is a significant fact, one link that points in the direction of the truth of the statement of the Prophet Joseph Smith.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When the nucleus of the Government of God was first organized by the Prophet, Brigham Young reported that it had as members "several" men who "were not members of the Church."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many critics of the Church allege that Joseph Smith never made a true prophecy and that he failed the test of a real prophet.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[337] .^ Source: Joseph Smith Papers, Ohio Journal 1835-1836, Church Archives ( Papers of Joseph Smith , 2:93) .- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ After praying about baptism John the Baptist appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and gives them the Aaronic Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to the elders of the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, September 11, 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[339] As unfolded by Smith in the mid-1830s, these
priesthoods derived their authority from angelic visitations or
lineage.
[340]
.^ Implications As Richard Bushman noted, it was Joseph Smith himself that connected early Mormon converts to heavenly visions and spiritual raptures by a power that he, himself possessed.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No other evidence of Joseph Smith's divine calling is more worthy of consideration and more powerful than the Book of Mormon .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ My emphasis on Smith family conflict is similar to the views expressed by Hill in Quest for Refuge, 10-11.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[341] .^ At best, it only provides Smith with thoughtful introspection when depressed and energy when hypomanic.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In April of 1836, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery declared that Elijah, in fulfillment of prophecy, visited them in the Kirtland Temple and gave them priesthood keys (authority) for the work of turning the hearts of the children to the father, including sacred temple work such as the sealing of families for eternity and baptism for the dead .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared and conveyed priesthood keys."- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There was no other name given under heaven, nor no other ordinance admitted, whereby men could be saved: No wonder the Apostle said, being "buried with him in baptism," ye shall rise from the dead!- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
[344] .^ No other evidence of Joseph Smith's divine calling is more worthy of consideration and more powerful than the Book of Mormon .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The second and most important source was Pico della Mirandola's circle in the late fifteenth-century Platonic Academy of the Medicis at Florence, mentioned by Owens.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However, the most important evidence for Joseph's divine calling as a prophet of Christ is the Book of Mormon , which is why I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Interestingly, the vast majority of Mormons living today believe that Joseph Smith-like visionary and revelatory experience continues amongst the living "General Authorities" of the Church, but in secret.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ These early Church members sought direct experience with God and believed that Joseph Smith had the power to grant their desires.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The United Order at Kirtland was to be temporarily dissolved and reorganized, and the properties as stewardships were to be divided among members of the order.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Said George Miller: "It was thought and urged by the council that so great an undertaking would require, in order to insure success, the entire and united effort of the official members of the church."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was given to answer questions about those saints who had moved to Zion, but who had not received their inheritances according to the established order in the Church.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
After this system proved a conspicuous failure, he instituted a
tithing system to support the church.
[345]
Theology of family
.^ And unto it all the tribes of Israel will come, with as many of the Gentiles as shall comply with the requisitions of the new covenant.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, as also plurality of wives.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Smith Family in Vermont and New Hampshire, 1796-1816 1.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[347] .^ Like many of those who directly witnessed the early church and its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., Josiah Quicy described himself as "[standing] helpless before the puzzle" of Mormonism.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But those who knew him well knew that he was a prophet of God, and those who have examined carefully the prophetic Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price will find abundant evidence of heavenly inspiration.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those who read it sincerely and pray about it come to know with the heart and the mind that Joseph was a prophet of God.- LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.jefflindsay.com [Source type: Original source]
[349] To enter the Covenant, a man and woman must participate in a "
first anointing," a "
sealing" ceremony, and a "
second anointing." When fully sealed into the Covenant, Smith said that no sin nor
blasphemy (other than the
eternal sin) could keep them from their
"exaltation," that is their godhood in the afterlife.
[350] .^ But they will possess the same privilege that we here enjoy, through the medium of the everlasting priesthood—which not only administers on earth but in heaven—and the wise dispensations of the great Jehovah."- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ At the same time, one cannot ignore Smith's capacity to deceive.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Implications As Richard Bushman noted, it was Joseph Smith himself that connected early Mormon converts to heavenly visions and spiritual raptures by a power that he, himself possessed.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[351]
.^ It would take years for the Smiths to achieve a measure of equilibrium, largely acquired through the founding of Smith's church.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[353] Plural marriage allowed an individual to transcend the angelic state and become a god
[354] by gaining an "eternal increase" of posterity.
[355] Smith taught and practiced this doctrine secretly but always publicly denied it.
[356] .^ For the kabbalists, when God revealed himself, you would "imagine" the "image" of God in your "imagination."- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Smith knew that God told Adam he would die "in the day" he ate the forbidden fruit (Gen.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But however hermeticists may have conceived of deification, none would ever have made the claim that "God was once as man now is" (pp.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[357]
History and eschatology
Smith taught that during a
Great Apostasy, the
Bible had degenerated from its original inerrant form, and the "abominable church", led by
Satan, had perverted true Christianity.
[358] .^ The kingdom that the Almighty will set up in the latter days will have its officers, and those officers will be peace.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1830, Joseph Smith Jr. In an early chapter in the Book of Mormon those who held onto the rod of iron ultimately “fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree” which represented the love of God.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like many of those who directly witnessed the early church and its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., Josiah Quicy described himself as "[standing] helpless before the puzzle" of Mormonism.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
[359]. He described the
Book of Mormon as a literal "history of the origins of the
Indians."
[360] These "
Lamanites" as Smith called them, were descendants of Israelite tribes who had received their pigmented skin as a curse for sinfulness.
[361] .^ Among the first words Smith recorded in the diary he began keeping in late 1832 were: "Oh my God grant that I may be directed in all my thoughts.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[362].^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to his father, Joseph Smith, Sen., at Harmony, Pennsylvania, February 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in the presence of six elders, at Fayette, New York, September 1830.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Newel Knight, at Kirtland, Ohio, June 1831.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ According to a revelation to Joseph Smith, this city is to be built at Independence , Jackson County, Missouri.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The earth is groaning under corruption, oppression, tyranny and bloodshed; and God is coming out of His hiding place, as He said He would do, to vex the nations of the earth.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the L ORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ The theocratic government organized by Joseph Smith was held to be a perfect instrument.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was held that the Kingdom of God would restore the true concept of government as envisioned by the Founding Fathers in 1787.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And under the influence and power of the Kingdom of God , the Church of God will rest secure and dwell in safety, without taking the trouble of governing and controlling the whole earth.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[363] .^ Where there is no kingdom of God there is no salvation.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ While the nature of these visions are a matter of debate , there is no doubt as to the amazing number of visions experienced by Joseph Smith and early converts during these seven years.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The date given in these minutes is no doubt an error, as Joseph Smith was engaged throughout the day in activities of a non-political nature.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[364] .^ According to the timeline of JS’s own account, the 1826 incident would have come during a period of prophetic preparation.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus Joseph Smith was alive precisely during the period of the least influence of Kabbalah, hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism, all of which had seriously declined by the late eighteenth century—before Joseph's birth—and would revive only in the late nineteenth century, after Joseph's death.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Smithmuch like Jesuswould have to suffer in a temporary hell and become a savior to his followers.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The kingdom that the Almighty will set up in the latter days will have its officers, and those officers will be peace.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was held that in some future day the Kingdom of God would have two great centers of world government the City of Zion on our Western continent, and Jerusalem .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ United States government, and all others, will be uprooted, and the kingdoms of this world will be united in one, and the kingdom of our God will govern the whole earth.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
Race, government, and public policy
Except for a pro-
slavery essay published over his name in 1836,
[365] Smith strongly opposed slavery.
[366] In his 1844 presidential campaign, he advocated
abolishing slavery by 1850 and compensating slaveholders.
[367] He did not believe blacks to be genetically inferior to whites, although he opposed
miscegenation.
[368] Smith welcomed both freemen and slaves into his church,
[369] but he opposed the baptism of slaves without permission of their masters.
[370] .^ At this conference Joseph Smith was sustained and ordained President of the High Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[371].^ According to Joseph Smith, the Constitution was devised by God from the beginning to be a document of universal application.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Likewise, as prophet, Smith may have believed himself to be inspired and may have at times heard voices or experienced visions but still used some deception to convince others.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ While the pseudonymous author believed his writing was inspired, he knew its ancient setting was fictional, leading one interpreter to compare Smith's Book of Mormon to the work of the pseudepigraphists.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ We are thus expected to believe that Joseph was influenced by a form of Masonry that apparently did not even exist!- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The federal system limits and restrains the sovereign power by dividing it and by assigning to Government only certain defined rights.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The kingdom that Daniel saw will push forth its law, and that law will protect the Methodists, Quakers, Pagans, Jews, and every other creed there ever was or ever will be, in their religious rights.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The vertical separation of power between the federal, state, and local levels of government also aids in controlling the influence of political parties.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Until the publication of Lee's diaries, neither Melville or I realized that the government of God was more than an ideal in early Latter-day Saint thought-that there had been an actual political organ started by Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Although it is impossible to know for sure, the scant evidence indicates that neither Neibaur nor Joseph Smith had more than a basic knowledge of biblical Aramaic.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Monarchial, aristocratic, and republican forms of government, of their various kinds and grades, have, in their turn, been raised to dignity and prostrated in the dust.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ They asked Smith to look into his stone again, but Smith refused, stating that the treasure was protected by the spirit of a murdered native American.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Smith disfavored imprisonment of convicts except for murder, preferring efforts to reform criminals through labor; and he also opposed
courts martial for
military deserters. He favored
capital punishment but opposed
hanging,
[372] preferring execution by
firing squad or
beheading in order to "spill [the criminal's] blood on the ground, and let the smoke thereof ascend up to God."
[373]
Ethics and morality
Smith introduced as revelations from God a number of behavioral guidelines for church members, among which was what he called the "
Word of Wisdom." Smith recommended that Saints avoid liquor, wine (except
sacramental wine), tobacco, meat (except in times of famine or cold weather), and "hot drinks."
[374] But Smith did not always follow this counsel himself.
[375]Smith's revelations treated sexual sins, including
adultery, almost as seriously as murder;
[376].^ In 1830, Joseph Smith Jr. In an early chapter in the Book of Mormon those who held onto the rod of iron ultimately “fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree” which represented the love of God.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Love is one of the leading characteristics of Deity and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ It was in desperate need of money; and its principle source of revenue came from the sale of public lands.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.- http://www.boap.org/LDS/Joseph-Smith/Teachings/T5.html 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.boap.org [Source type: Original source]
^ While the nature of these visions are a matter of debate , there is no doubt as to the amazing number of visions experienced by Joseph Smith and early converts during these seven years.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Within this passage is both the concept of plurality and of the hierarchy of Gods acting "with the permission and direction of the one above it, while the one above did nothing without consulting its colleague."- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[378] .^ Scott C Dunn, "Spirit Writing; Another Look at the Book of Mormon," Sunstone 10 (June 1985): 16-26 rpt.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[379] .^ I believe that during his early career as a treasure seer, he was a charlatan but came to believe that he was, in fact, called of God and thereafter occasionally used deceit to bolster his religious message.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Religious historian Huston Smith wrote that the use of entheogenic material is able to occasion an “experience that is indistinguishable from, if not identical with” those of religious mystics.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I believe that Smith believed he was called of God, yet occasionally engaged in fraudulent activities in order to preach God's word as effectively as possible.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[380]
Legacy
Religious denominations
.^ Until the publication of Lee's diaries, neither Melville or I realized that the government of God was more than an ideal in early Latter-day Saint thought-that there had been an actual political organ started by Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is officially organized according to the laws of New York on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York, with six founding members.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Is such a proposition at all helpful in explaining the origin of the idea of plurality of gods in Latter-day Saint theology?- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[381] Smith had proposed several ways to choose his successor,
[382] but while a prisoner in
Carthage, it was too late to clarify his preference.
[383] .^ A few months after Joseph received them, he inquired of the Lord, and obtained the following revelation: .- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Hyrum Smith is born to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith on February 9, 1800, in Tunbridge, Vermont.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In a few days we were followed by Joseph, Oliver, and the Whitmers, who came to make us a visit, and make some arrangements about getting the book printed.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
[385] Another brother,
William, was unable to attract a sufficient following.
[386] .^ Joseph Smith III is born .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In a similar ante hoc claim, Homer also appeals to the Rite of Adoption as a possible source of influence on Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to David Whitmer, at Fayette, New York, June 1829.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[387] .^ In the spring of 1844, Joseph organized a council of fifty.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "The Minutes of the Council of Fifty," Saturday, April 10, 1880, City Hall, Salt Lake City , state that this organization was effected April 7, 1842.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is also the first work written to show that Joseph Smith actually organized the nucleus of that divine political system on earth, in the form of the General Council or, as it was nicknamed, the Council of Fifty.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[388] .^ David Oliver Smith boxing David Oliver Smith's headst...- Joseph Jenson and Alice Girdlestone Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.webspawner.com [Source type: Academic]
^ In this regard, his comment to Oliver B. Huntington is relevant: "Joseph Smith said that some people entirely denounce the principle of self-aggrandizement as wrong.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to David Whitmer, Peter Whitmer, Jun., and John Whitmer, at Fayette, New York, September 1830, following the three-day conference at Fayette, but before the elders of the Church had separated.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[389]
.^ On the matter of tenure, Brigham young declared that a clause limiting a president to two terms should not be found in the Constitution of the United States , nor in the constitution made by this on any other people."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Brigham Young explained by first referring to the various organizations that make up the Church and then stating: .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They include the members of my graduate committee at Brigham Young University and at Syracuse University .- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ There may be men acting as officers in the Kingdom of God who will not be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ [This applies] to the present state of the Church of Latter-day Saints.- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Lamoni, Iowa: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1912, reprinted 1969.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[391] Rigdon's followers are known as
Rigdonites.
[392] .^ Like many of those who directly witnessed the early church and its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., Josiah Quicy described himself as "[standing] helpless before the puzzle" of Mormonism.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The decision of the council was had, and Lucien Woodworth, George Miller, and Lyman Wight appointed to settle the company and their families, and procure a place for a stake for the gathering of the saints; whereupon Lucien Woodworth forthwith started to Texas and returned the first of May.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[397] .^ Joseph Smith III is born .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Lance Owens has demonstrated a connection between Joseph Smith and hermetic traditions including alchemy.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After praying about baptism John the Baptist appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and gives them the Aaronic Priesthood.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ This name is derived from the number of men composing the initial organization during the lifetime of Joseph Smith.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Over the last 50 years Joseph Smith-like spiritual power has come under examination by an ever-increasing number of anthropologists, religious historians, ethnobotanists and ethnomycologists.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However, James Strang and Fredrick M. Smith (Joseph Smith's grandson and president of the RLDS Church) perpetuated the use of psychedelics in their branches of Joseph Smith's original movement.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Family and descendants
.^ Joseph Smith, Jr., and Emma Hale are married by a justice of the peace in South Bainbridge, New York, on January 18, 1827.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After Joseph’s death, the stone was kept by Emma Smith and inherited by her second husband, Lewis Bidamon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[398][399]
.^ April 30 1831 00:00:00 GMT .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ April 30, 1831 .- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Brandon, in his conclusion, honestly concedes that a legal proceeding involving Joseph Smith and ‘money-digging’ did occur in 1826.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ If the reader does not know just what to make of Joseph Smith, I cannot help him out of the difficulty.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On another occasion in which Amanita Muscaria mushroom was ingested in a sacramental setting, Heinrich reported an experience reminiscent of the February 16, 1832 joint vision of Joseph Smith and Sydney Rigdon.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After the third week, the Smiths called for a surgeon, Dr. Stone, who made an eight-inch incision on the front of Joseph's leg between the knee and the ankle.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[401] .^ Joseph Smith III is born to Joseph and Emma November 6, 1832.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph Smith III is born .- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Source: Joseph Smith Papers, Ohio Journal 1835-1836, Church Archives ( Papers of Joseph Smith , 2:93) .- Joseph Smith’s Commentary on the Bible - Psalms to Ezekiel 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC jst.byu.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thus, Joseph Smith and his associates came closer to being the true successors of the Founding Fathers, in their original inspired concept of the Constitution, than any other body of American thinkers.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is understandable that he provides neither primary nor secondary evidence for this assertion, since no hermetic or kabbalistic texts make such a claim.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Here we find far more evidence of Owens being closely associated with the New Age movement than we have for Joseph Smith's alleged association with hermeticists.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[402]
.^ Smith, on returning home, asked Emma if she knew whether Joseph had taken the plates from their place of deposit, or if she was able to tell him where they were.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ During her husband's absence, Emma Smith lived with William Cahoon and Brother Williams, occasionally spending a short time with us.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Her granddaughter, Mary B. Smith, had some months before her death married a Mr. Edward Kelteau, and had taken up her battle with the things of this life for herself.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ About this time, Joseph Sr.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There are three options: Neibaur had read kabbalistic texts and simply told Joseph about some of the ideas found therein; Neibaur read kabbalistic texts to or with Joseph; Neibaur introduced Joseph to the texts, which Joseph read and interpreted on his own.- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In a personal Internet communication, Owens insists that he never intended to claim that Joseph had personally read the Zohar .- Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection - William J. Hamblin - FARMS Review - Volume 8 - Issue 2 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[405] .^ Joseph’s mother, Lucy Mack noted that even before receiving the gold plates, her son was gifted with an extensive knowledge of the inhabitants of ancient America.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ About this time, a man by the name of Joseph Jackson, who had been in the city several months, being desirous to marry Lovina Smith, Hyrum's oldest daughter, asked her father if he was willing to receive him as a son-in-law.- Joseph Smith, The Prophet And His Progenitors For Many Generations by Lucy Smith 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.centerplace.org [Source type: Original source]
^ On this later point, I would recommend reviewing Thomas Alexander’s 1980 and my 2003 Sunstone presentation to understand why Joseph Smith would have experienced God as a trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.- Elixirs | Psychedelics in Early Mormonism 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC mormonelixirs.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[406]
.^ In his report of the organization of this council, Brigham Young also noted that it was to be an organ concerned with political matters.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Marvin S. Hill, at the time a professor of history at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University, cautioned against approaching Smith solely in either/or terms.- Excerpts -- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.signaturebooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On the matter of tenure, Brigham young declared that a clause limiting a president to two terms should not be found in the Constitution of the United States , nor in the constitution made by this on any other people."- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
[407] Her strong opposition to plural marriage "made her doubly troublesome."
[408] .^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the official name for the church commonly referred to as "Mormon."- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes it is headed by a prophet – a man who is divinely called as the head of the church.- The 1826 Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. - OmniNerd 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.omninerd.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Cited in History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1836-1844, ed.- Joseph Smith and World Government 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC www.artbulla.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Joseph Smith and Martin Harris translate the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon between April 12 and June 14, 1828.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris, at Fayette, New York, June 1829, prior to their viewing the engraved plates that contained the Book of Mormon record.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph and his scribe, Oliver Cowdery, had learned from the translation of the Book of Mormon plates that three special witnesses would be designated.- Joseph Smith Timeline 26 January 2010 1:37 UTC ideaharbor.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Monuments and memorials
See also
Notes
- ^ Dobner, Jennifer (April 10, 2009), Editor: Statistics show fast Mormon church growth, USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/states/utah/2009-04-10-42998841_x.htm (LDS Church claims 13,508,509 members as of end of 2008); (second largest Latter Day Saint movement denomination claiming approximately 250,000 members).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 9, 30); Smith (1832, p. 1).
- ^ Smith (1853, pp. 62–65); Bushman (2005, pp. 20–22, 29).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 30).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 32–33). From about 1818 until after the July 1820 purchase, the Smiths squatted in a log home adjacent to the property. Id.
- ^ Shipps (1987, p. 7).
- ^ Brooke (1994, p. 129) ("Long before the 1820s, the Smiths were caught up in the dialectic of spiritual mystery and secular fraud framed in the hostile symbiosis of divining and counterfeiting and in the diffusion of Masonic culture in an era of sectarian fervor and profound millenarian expectation.").
- ^ Smith said that he decided in 1820, based on his First Vision, not to join any churches (Smith 1838, p. 4). However, (Lapham 1870) said that Smith's father told him his son had once become a Baptist).
- ^ Smith is known to have attended Sunday school at the Western Presbyterian Church in Palmyra (Matzko 2007). Smith also attended and spoke at a Methodist probationary class in the early 1820s, but never officially joined (Turner 1852, p. 214; Tucker 1876, p. 18).
- ^ Quinn (1998, p. 30)("Joseph Smith's family was typical of many early Americans who practiced various forms of Christian folk magic."); Bushman (2005, p. 50) (referring to the Smiths' use of rod and stone divining, astrology, and magical parchments).
- ^ Quinn (1998, p. 31); Hill (1977, p. 53) ("Even the more vivid manifestations of religious experience, such as dreams, visions and revelations, were not uncommon in Joseph's day, neither were they generally viewed with scorn.").
- ^ Quinn (1988, pp. 14–16, 137).
- ^ (Mack 1811, p. 25); Smith (1853, pp. 54–59, 70–74); Bushman (2005, p. 26, 36).
- ^ Smith (1832); Bushman (2005, p. 39).
- ^ Smith (1838, p. 3).
- ^ Bushman (, p. 39) (story was unknown to most early converts); Allen (1966, p. 30) (the first vision received only limited circulation in the 1830s).
- ^ Shipps (1985, pp. 30–32); Allen (1966, p. 43–69); Quinn (1998, p. 176) ("Smith's first vision became a missionary tool for his followers only after Americans grew to regard modern visions of God as unusual.").
- ^ Quinn (1998, p. 136).
- ^ Quinn (1998, pp. 25–26).
- ^ Quinn (1987, p. 173); Bushman (2005, pp. 49–51); Persuitte (2000, pp. 33–53).
- ^ Brooke (1994, p. 152–53); Quinn (1998, pp. 43–44); Bushman (2005, pp. 45–52). See also the following primary sources: Harris (1833, pp. 253–54); Hale (1834, p. 265); Clark (1842, p. 225); Turner (1851, p. 216); Harris (1859, p. 164); Tucker (1867, pp. 20–21); Lapham (1870, p. 305); Lewis & Lewis (1879, p. 1); Mather (1880, p. 199).
- ^ Smith (1838, p. 5) (writing that he "displayed the weakness of youth and the
corruption
foibles of human nature, which I am sorry to say, led me into divers temptations
to the gratification of many appetites offensive in the sight of God", deletions and interlineations in original); Quinn (1998, p. 136-38) (arguing that Smith was praying for forgiveness for a sexual sin to maintain his power as a seer); Smith (1994, pp. 17–18) (arguing that his prayer related to a sexual sin). But see Bushman (2005, p. 43) (noting that Smith did not specify which "appetites" he had gratified, and suggesting that one of them was that he "drank too much").
- ^ a b Smith (1838, p. 4).
- ^ Mormon historian Richard Bushman argues that "the visit of the angel and the discovery of the gold plates would have confirmed the belief in supernatural powers. For people in a magical frame of mind, Moroni sounded like one of the the spirits who stood guard over treasure in the tales of treasure-seeking." Bushman (2005, p. 50).
- ^ Quinn (1998, pp. 163–64); Bushman (2005, p. 54) (noting accounts stating that the "right person" was originally Smith's brother Alvin, then when he died, someone else, and finally his wife Emma).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 51–53).
- ^ Hill (1976, p. 1–2); Bushman (2005, p. 51–52).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 53).
- ^ Quinn (1998, pp. 163–64); Bushman (2005, p. 54) (noting accounts stating that Emma was the key).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 60).
- ^ Smith (1838, p. 5–6).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 54) (Smith had assured Emma's father Isaac Hale that his treasure-seeking days were behind him).
- ^ Harris (1859, p. 167); Bushman (2005, p. 61).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 54) (treasure seer Sally Chase attempted to find the plates using her seer stone).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 60–61); Remini (2002, p. 55).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 55).
- ^ Newell & Tippetts (1994, p. 2).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 62–63); Walker (1986, p. 35); Remini (2002, p. 55) (Harris' money allowed Smith to pay his debts and thus allowed him to move without being arrested for evading his creditors); Smith (1853, p. 113); Howe (1834).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 56).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 63); Remini (2002, p. 56); Roberts (1902, p. 19);Howe (1834, pp. 270–71) (Smith sat behind a curtain and passed transcriptions to his wife or her brother).
- ^ Smith (1838, p. 9); Remini (2002, p. 57) (noting that Emma Smith said that Smith started translating with the Urim and Thummim and then eventually used his dark seer stone exclusively); Bushman (2005, p. 66).
- ^ Smith may have initiated the Mormon practice of using the term Urim and Thummim to refer to one of several seer stones he used had previously used for treasure digging, "to mainstream an instrument and practice of folk magic" (Quinn 1998, pp. 175).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 71–72); Marquardt & Walters (1994, pp. 103–04); Van Wagoner & Walker (1982, p. 52–53) (citing numerous witnesses of the translation process).
- ^ Van Wagoner & Walker (1982, p. 52); Howe (1834, p. 266) (plates were hidden in the woods while Smith translated); Remini (2002, p. 56) (noting other locations where the plates were said to have been kept).
- ^ Cole (1831); Howe (1834, p. 14).
- ^ Morgan (1986, p. 280).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 63) (Harris had a vision that he was to assist with a "marvelous work"); Roberts (1902, p. 19) (Harris arrived in Harmony in February 1828); Booth (1831) (Harris had to convince Smith to continue translating, saying, "I have not come down here for nothing, and we will go on with it").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 63–64) (the plan to use a scholar to authenticate the characters was part of a vision received by Harris; author notes that Smith's mother said the plan to authenticate the characters was arranged between Smith and Harris before Harris left Palmyra); Remini (2002, p. 57–58) (noting that the plan arose from a vision of Martin Harris). According to (Bushman 2005, p. 64), these scholars probably included at least Luther Bradish in Albany, New York (Lapham 1870), Samuel L. Mitchill of New York City ((Hadley 1829); Jessee 1976, p. 3), and Charles Anthon of New York City (Howe 1834, pp. 269–272).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 64–65); Remini (2002, p. 58–59).
- ^ Howe (1834, pp. 269–72) (Anthon's description of his meeting with Harris, claiming he tried to convince Harris that he was a victim of a fraud). But see Vogel (2004, p. 115) (arguing that Anthon's initial assessment was likely more positive than he would later admit).
- ^ Roberts (1902, p. 20).
- ^ These doubts were induced by his wife's deep skepticism. Bushman (, p. 66).
- ^ Smith (1853, p. 117–18); Roberts (1902, p. 20).
- ^ During this dark period, Smith briefly attended his in-laws' Methodist church, but one of Emma's cousins "objected to the inclusion of a 'practicing necromancer' on the Methodist roll", and Smith voluntarily withdrew rather than face a disciplinary hearing. (Bushman 2005, pp. 69–70).
- ^ (Phelps 1833, sec. 2:4-5) (revelation dictated by Smith stating that his gift to translate was temporarily revoked); Smith (1832, p. 5) (stating that the angel had taken away the plates and the Urim and Thummim).
- ^ Smith (1853, p. 126).
- ^ Hill (1997, p. 86) (Cowdery had brought with him a "rod of nature," perhaps acquired while he was among his father's religious group in Vermont, who believed that certain rods had spiritual properties and could be used in divining."); Bushman (2005, p. 73) ("Cowdery was open to belief in Joseph's powers because he had come to Harmony the possessor of a supernatural gift" and his family had apparently engaged in treasure seeking and other magical practices.)Quinn (1998, p. 35-36, 121).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 74) (Smith and Cowdery began translating where the narrative left off after the lost 116 pages, now representing the Book of Mosiah. A revelation would later direct them not to re-translate the lost text, to ensure that the lost pages could not later be found and compared to the re-translation.).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 70-74).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 5–6, 38) (contrasting the 1829 view with the churchless Mormonism of 1828); Bushman (2005, p. 74–75).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 15–20) (noting that Mormon records and publications contain no mention of any angelic conferral of authority until 1834); Bushman (2005, p. 75) (posing Mormon apologetic theories for the five-year delay in mentioning the vision of John the Baptist).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 78).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 77) (Smith "began to seek converts the question of credibility had to be addressed again. Joseph knew his story was unbelievable.").
- ^ (Bushman 2005, pp. 77–79). There were two statements, one by a set of Three Witnesses and another by a set of Eight Witnesses. The two testimonies are undated, and the exact dates on which the Witnesses are said to have seen the plates is unknown.
- ^ Vogel (2004, pp. 466–69); Bushman (2005, p. 79).
- ^ Smith (1838, p. 8).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 82).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 80) (noting that Harris' marriage dissolved in part because his wife refused to be a party, and he eventually sold his farm to pay the bill.
- ^ Scholars and eye-witnesses disagree whether the church was organized in Manchester, New York at the Smith log home, or in Fayette at the the home of Peter Whitmer. Bushman (2005, p. 109); Marquardt (2005, pp. 223–23) (arguing that organization in Manchester is most consistent with eye-witness statements).
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 55) (noting that by July 1830, the church was "in Colesville, Fayette, and Manchester").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 80–82).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 117)(noting that area residents connected the discovery of the Book of Mormon with Smith's past career as a money digger);Brodie (1971) (discussing organized boycott of Book of Mormon by Palmyra residents, p. 80, and opposition by Colesville and Bainbridge residents who remembered the 1826 trial, p. 87).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 86) (describing the exorcism).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, pp. 116–17).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 24–26); (Bushman 2005, p. 118).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 120) ("Oliver Cowdery and the Whitmer family began to conceive of themselves as independent authorities with the right to correct Joseph and receive revelation.").
- ^ Roberts (1902, pp. 109–110).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 121); Phelps (1833, p. 67) ("[N]o one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this church, excepting my servant Joseph, for he receiveth them even as Moses.").
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 68) ("[I]t is not revealed, and no man knoweth where the city shall be built.").
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 68) ("The New Jerusalem "shall be on the borders by the Lamanites."); Bushman (2005, p. 122) (church members knew that "on the borders by the Lamanites" referred to Western Missouri, and Cowdery's mission in part was to "locate the place of the New Jerusalem along this frontier").
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 67–68) (Cowdery "shall go unto the Lamanites and preach my gospel unto them".).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 96) (noting that this was Smith's third attempt since the Book of Mormon at revealing "lost books", the first being the "parchment of John" produced in 1829, and the second the Book of Moses dictated in June 1830.
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 124); Roberts (1902, pp. 120–124).
- ^ F. Mark McKiernan, "The Conversion of Sidney Rigdon to Mormonism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 5 (Summer 1970): 77. Parley Pratt said that the Mormon mission baptized 127 within two or three weeks "and this number soon increased to one thousand." McKiernan argues that "Rigdon's conversion and the missionary effort which followed transformed Mormonism from a New York-based sect with about a hundred members into one which was a major threat to Protestantism in the Western Reserve."
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 96) ("When Rigdon read the Book of Enoch, the scholar in him fled and the evangelist stepped into the place of second in command of the millennial church.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 123–24); Brodie (1971, p. 96–97).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 97) (citing letter by Smith to Kirtland converts, quoted in Howe (1833, p. 111)). In 1834, Smith designated Kirtland as one of the "stakes" of Zion, referring to the tent–stakes metaphor of Isaiah 54:2.
- ^ Phelps (1833, pp. 79–80) ("And again, a commandment I give unto the church, that it is expedient in me that they should assemble together in the Ohio, until the time that my servant Oliver Cowdery shall return unto them."); Bushman (2005, pp. 124–25); Brodie (1971, p. 96) (noting that Rigdon had urged Smith to return with him to Ohio).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 98–99, 116, 125) (Smith first lived with Newel K. Whitney in Kirtland, then moved in with John Johnson in 1831 in the nearby town of Hiram, Ohio, and by 1832 had secured a large estate in Kirtland).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 98) (citing LDS D&C 50 (Phelps 1833, pp. 119–23) as Smith's "first important revelation in Kirtland").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 99–100) (stating that Smith "appealed as much to reason as to emotion", and referred to Smith's style as "autocratic" and "authoritarian", but noted that he was effective in utilizing members' inherent desire to preach as long as they subjected themselves to his ultimate authority); Remini (2002, p. 95) ("Joseph quickly settled in and assumed control of the Kirtland Church.").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 99) (gifts included hysterical fits and trances, frenzied rolling on the floor, loud and extended glossalalia, grimacing, and visions taken from parchments hanging in the night sky); (Bushman 2005, pp. 150–52).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 100) (noting that the prophetess, named Hubbel, was a friend of Rigdon's)
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 104–108) (stating that the United Order of Enoch was Rigdon's conception (p. 108)); Bushman (2005, pp. 154-55); Hill (1977, p. 131) (Rigdon's communal group was called "the family"); see also Phelps (1833, p. 118) (revelation introducing the communal system, stating, "For behold the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth is ordained for the use of man, for food, and for raiment, and that he might have in abundance, but it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another.").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 103) (stating that Rigdon suggested that Smith revise the Bible in response to an 1827 revision by Rigdon's former mentor Alexander Campbell).
- ^ Hill (1977, p. 131) (although Smith described his work beginning in April 1831 as a "translation," "he obviously meant a revision by inspiration").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 142) (noting that though Smith declared the work finished in 1833, the church lacked funds to publish it during his lifetime).
- ^ Prince (1995, p. 116).
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 83); Bushman (2005, p. 125, 156, 308).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 111–13) (describing this conference as "the first major failure of his life" because he made irresponsible prophesies and performed failed faith healings, requiring Rigdon to cut the conference short).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 111); Bushman (2005, pp. 156–60); Quinn (1994, pp. 31–32); Roberts (1902, pp. 175–76) (On 3 June 1831, "the authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood was manifested and conferred for the first time upon several of the Elders." Annotation by Roberts gives an apologetic explanation.).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 101).
- ^ Arrington (1992, p. 21).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 101–02, 121).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 110) (describing the mission as a "flat failure").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 108).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 162); Brodie (1971, p. 109).
- ^ Smith et al. (1835, p. 154).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 115).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 119–22).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 180); Brodie (1971, p. 119).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 178–79); Remini (2002, p. 109–10).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 119) (noting that Smith may have narrowly escaped being castrated over some perceived intimacy between Smith and the sixteen year old sister of one of the mob's instigators); Bushman (2005, pp. 178–79) (arguing that the evidence for Smith's intimacy with the girl is thin). Bruised and scarred, Smith preached the following day as if nothing happened (Brodie (1971, p. 120); 2002 (, p. 110–11)).
- ^ These reasons included the settlers' understanding that the Saints' intended to appropriate their property and establish a Millennial political kingdom (Brodie (1971, pp. 130–31); Remini (2002, pp. 114)), the Saints' friendliness with the Indians (Brodie (1971, p. 130)); Remini (2002, pp. 114–15)), the Saints' perceived religious blasphemy (Remini 2002, p. 114), and especially the belief that the Saints were abolitionists (Brodie (1971, pp. 131–33); Remini (2002, pp. 113–14)).
- ^ Vigilantes tarred and feathered two church leaders, destroyed some Mormon homes, destroyed the Mormon press, then the westernmost American newspaper, including most copies of the unpublished Book of Commandments. (Bushman (2005, pp. 181–83); Brodie (1971, p. 115).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 135–36); Bushman (2005, p. 235).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 82–83) (Smith's August 1833 revelation said that after the fourth attack, "the Saints were "justified" by God in violence against any attack by any enemy "until they had avenged themselves on all their enemies, to the third and fourth generation.", citing Smith et al. (1835, p. 218)).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 83–84) (after the fourth attack on 2 November 1833, Saints began fighting back, leading to the Battle of Blue River on 4 November 1833).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 222–27); Brodie (1971, p. 137) (noting that the brutality of the Jackson Countians aroused sympathy for the Mormons and was almost universally deplored by the media).
- ^ Roberts (1904, p. 37) (February 1834 revelation: "[T]he redemption of Zion must needs come by power; [t]herefore, I will raise up unto my people a man, who shall lead them like as Moses led the children of Israel,...and ye must needs be led out of bondage by power, and with a stretched out arm."); Brodie (1971, p. 146) ("Quick-springing visions of an army of liberation marching triumphantly into the promised land betrayed his sounder judgment."); Hill (1989, p. 44–45) (suggesting that although members of the camp expected to do battle, Smith might have hoped they could merely intimidate the Missourians by a show of force).
- ^ Smith et al. (1835, p. 237) (December 1833 revelation: Smith must "get ye straightway unto my land; break down the walls of mine enemies; throw down their tower, and scatter their watchmen. And inasmuch as they gather together against you, avenge me of mine enemies, that by and by I may come with the residue of mine house and possess the land."); Quinn (1994, pp. 84–85) (arguing that as of February 1834, the Saints were "free to take 'vengeance' at will against any perceived enemy").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 146–58); Remini (2002, p. 115).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 141).
- ^ Roberts (1904, p. 108) (quoting text of revelation); Hill (1989, p. 44–45) (noting that in addition to failure to unite under the celestial order, God was displeased the church had failed to make Zion's army sufficiently strong).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 156–57); Roberts (1904, p. 109) (text of revelation).
- ^ Smith et al. (1835, p. 233) (Kirtland Temple "design[ed] to endow those whom [God] ha[s] chosen with power on high"); Prince (1995, p. 32 & n.104) (quoting revelation dated 12 June 1834 (Kirtland Revelation Book pp. 97–100) stating that the redemption of Zion "cannot be brought to pass until mine elders are endowed with power from on high; for, behold, I have prepared a greater endowment and blessing to be poured out upon them [than the 1831 endowment]").
- ^ Construction began in June 1833 (Remini 2002, p. 115), not long before the first attack on the Missouri Saints.
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 159) (describing it as Smith's "second major failure").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 322) (Smith was "stunned for months, scarcely knowing what to do.").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 160); Quinn (1994, p. 87) (noting that in October 1834, Smith only gathered two votes in his failed election as Kirtland's coroner).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 85).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 141) ("In the Missouri debacle Joseph now saw a chance to erase the whole economic experiment—which in Kirtland had never yielded anything but trouble.").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 147–48).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 161) (The five equal councils were "the presidency, the apostles, the seventies, and the two high councils of Kirtland and Missouri").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 159–60) (comparing only 13 or so revelations after July 1834, several of them trivial, to the over 100 in the five years previous); Bushman (2005, p. 322, 419).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 5-6, 9, 15-17, 26, 30, 33, 35, 38-42, 49, 70-71, 88, 198); Brodie (1971, p. 141) (Smith "began to efface the communistic rubric of his young theology").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 170–75).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 116) ("The ultimate cost came to approximately $50,000, an enormous sum for a people struggling to stay alive.").
- ^ (Bushman 2005, pp. 310–19); (Brodie 1971, p. 178) ("Five years before...[Joseph] had found a spontaneous orgiastic revival in full progress and had ruthlessly stamped it out. Now he was intoxicating his followers with the same frenzy he had once so vigorously denounced.")
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 165–66).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 322).
- ^ Brooke (1994, p. 221) ("Ultimately, the rituals and visions dedicating the Kirtland temple were not sufficient to hold the church together in the face of a mounting series of internal disputes," citing the failure of Zion's camp, the Alger "affair," and new theological innovations).
- ^ Hill (1977, pp. 340–41) (noting that Smith confided to Brigham Young in Kirtland that "if I were to reveal to this people what the Lord has revealed to me, there is not a man or a woman that would stay with me.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 323–25); Hill (1977, p. 188) (noting that Benjamin F. Johnson "realized later that Joseph's polygamy was one cause of disruption and apostasy in Kirtland, although it was rarely discussed in public.").
- ^ Compton (1997, p. 27); Bushman (2005, p. 326); Hill (1977, p. 340).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 323) (noting that Alger was fourteen in 1830 when she met Smith, and her involvement with Smith was between that date and 1836, and suggesting that the relationship began as early as 1831).
- ^ Compton (1997, p. 26); Bushman (2005, p. 326) (noting Compton's date and conclusion); but see Smith (2008, pp. 38-39 n.81) (questioning whether Smith and Alger were actually married).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 181–82); Bushman (2005, p. 323–25).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 325).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, pp. 217, 329) (By 1837, Smith had run up a debt of over $100,000.).
- ^ Quinn (1998, pp. 261–64); Brodie (1971, p. 192); Bushman (2005, p. 328).
- ^ Roberts (1904, p. 465-66) (text of the revelation).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 328); Brodie (1971, p. 193).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 328).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 328) (Smith "had bought more stock than eighty-five percent of the investors".).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 195–96); Bushman (2005, p. 334).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 330) (noting that business started on 2 January 1837, business was floundering within three weeks, and payment stopped on 23 January 1837).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 331–32).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 332, 336–38). Richard Bushman notes that Heber C. Kimball claimed that in June 1837, not more than 20 men in Kirtland believed Smith was a prophet, but argues that this was an exaggeration, and that there were still "hundreds and probably thousands of loyal followers" during this time (Bushman 2005, p. 332).
- ^ The fallout included a couple of unseemly rows in the temple, including one occasion on which guns and knives were drawn (Bushman 2005, p. 339). When a leading apostle, David W. Patten, raised insulting questions, Smith slapped him in the face and kicked him into the yard (Bushman 2005, pp. 332, 337, 339). Even stalwarts Parley P. Pratt and Orson Pratt left the church for a few months (Bushman 2005, p. 332).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 207); Bushman (2005, pp. 339–40); Hill (1977, p. 216) (noting that Smith characterized the warrant as "mob violence...under the color of legal process").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 157) (After Zion's Camp disbanded, Smith had predicted that Zion would be redeemed on 11 September 1836); Hill (1977, pp. 181–82) (noting an account that Smith predicted in 1834 that Jackson County would be redeemed "within three years"); Bushman (2005, p. 384) (noting that by 1839, Smith "was giving up the campaign to recover Jackson County").
- ^ Roberts (1905, p. 24) (referring to the Far West church as the "church in Zion"); (Bushman 2005, p. 345) (The revelation calling Far West "Zion" had the effect of "implying that Far West was to take the place of Independence.")
- ^ Roberts (1905, p. 24); Quinn (1994, p. 628) (noting that some Kirtland dissenters had claimed that Smith had become the anti-Christ in 1834 when he changed the church's name from "Church of Christ" to "Church of Latter Day Saints," deleting the name of Jesus).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 210, 222–23).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 125); Brodie (1971, p. 210) ("Joseph's going had left a void that they had found intolerable. With each passing week they remembered less of their prophet's financial ineptitude and more of his genial warmth and his magnetic presence in the pulpit.")
- ^ Marquardt (2005, p. 463) (listing Oliver Cowdery (Assistant President of the Church), Frederick G. Williams (First Presidency), David and John Whitmer (Book of Mormon witnesses and presidency of Missouri), William Phelps (presidency of Missouri), Martin Harris, Hiram Page, and Jacob Whitmer (Book of Mormon witnesses), and Lyman E. Johnson, John F. Boynton, Luke S. Johnson, and William E. McLellin (Quorum of the Twelve)); Remini (2002, p. 128); Quinn (1994, p. 93).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 92); (Brodie 1971, p. 213) ("From the bottom of his heart Joseph hated violence, but his people were demanding something more than meekness and compromise. It was common gossip among the old settlers that the Mormons would never fight; and Joseph came to realize that in a country where a man's gun spoke faster than his wits, to be known as a pacifist was to invite plundering."); (Bushman 2005, p. 355).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 93) (arguing that Smith and Rigdon were aware of the Danite organization and sanctioned their activities); Brodie (1971, pp. 215–16) (arguing that Sampson Avard had Smith's sanction); Hill (1976, p. 225) (concluding that Smith had at least peripheral involvement and gave early approval to Danite activities); (Bushman 2005, p. 346-51) (Danites were under oath to be "completely submissive" to the First Presidency.)
- ^ There are two explanations for the name: (1) that it was a reference to the vision of Daniel of a stone cut out of a mountain in Dan. 2:44–45 (Quinn (1994, p. 93); Brodie (1097, p. 215) (quoting Smith)), and (2) that it was a reference to the biblical Danites of Judges 18 (Brodie 1971, p. 216) (quoting Smith).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 93); Brodie (1971, p. 213) ("They would not only defend the Saints against aggression from the old settlers, but also act as a bodyguard for the presidency and as a secret police for ferreting out dissenters."); Remini (2002, p. 129).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 217).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 217–18); Quinn (1994, p. 94).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 218–19) (Danites issued a written death threat, and when that didn't work they surrounded the dissenters' homes and "ordered their wives to pack their blankets and leave the county immediately"); Quinn (1994, pp. 94–95).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 352) ("Joseph certainly favored evicting dissenters...").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 222–23); Remini (2002, pp. 131–33).
- ^ Remini (2002, pp. 133).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 223); Quinn (1994, p. 96) (noting that Smith also advertised the speech in the church periodical).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 133).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 357) (noting that in Daviess County, Missouri, non-Mormons "watched local government fall into the hands of people they saw as deluded fanatics.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 345); Brodie (1971, pp. 225–26).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 134):Quinn (1994, p. 96).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 227).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 98–99, 101).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 97–98) (Mormon forces, primarily the Danites, pillaged Millport and Gallatin, and when apostles Thomas B. Marsh and Orson Hyde prepared an affidavit against these Mormon attacks, they were excommunicated); Brodie (1971, p. 232) (Wagons returned from Millport and Gallatin "piled high with 'consecrated property'".); Bushman (2005, p. 371) (Smith "believed his people could rightfully confiscate property in compensation for their own losses to the Missourians but no more".).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 230) (speech dated October 14, 1838 at the Far West town square); Bushman (2005, p. 352).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, pp. 370–72).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 364) ("Resisting a band of vigilantes was justifiable, but attacking a militia company was resistance to the state."); Quinn (1994, p. 100) (stating that the Extermination Order and the Haun's Mill massacre resulted from Mormon actions at the Battle of Crooked River); Brodie (1971, p. 234) (noting that Boggs was also told about Smith's "second Mohammed" speech and Mormon admissions that they had plundered Millport and Gallatin).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 367) (Boggs' executive order stated that the Mormon community had "made war upon the people of this State" and that "the Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace"). In 1976, Missouri issued a formal apology for this order (Bushman 2005, p. 398).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 365–66); Quinn (1994, p. 97).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 366–67); Brodie (1971, p. 239).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 367) (noting that Smith was saved by Alexander Doniphan, a Missouri militia leader who had acted as the Saints legal council (pp. 242, 344)); Brodie & 1971 (241).
- ^ a b (Bushman 2005, p. 369).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 369); (Brodie 1971, pp. 225–26).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 369–70).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 251). Smith bore his harsh imprisonment "stoically, almost cheerfully, for there was a serenity in his nature that enabled him to accept trouble along with glory," (Brodie (1971, p. 245); Bushman (2005, pp. 375–77)) whereas Rigdon was both sick and a whiner (Brodie 1971, p. 251).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 245–46).
- ^ Remini (2002, p. 138).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 248–50).
- ^ Remini (2002, pp. 136–37); (Brodie 1971, pp. 245).
- ^ (Brodie 1971, pp. 246) (noting, in addition, that Smith oddly denied the ubiquitous rumor of polygamy, which had not come up in his trial). The Danites dissolved in 1838, but their members formed the backbone of Smith's security forces in Nauvoo. (Quinn, pp. 101–02).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 246).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 252–53).
- ^ (Brodie 1971, pp. 245–46).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 377–78).
- ^ (Bushman 2005, p. 375); (Brodie 1971, pp. 250–51).
- ^ Brodie (2005, pp. 253–55) (The bribe was a jug of honey whiskey brought by Smith's brother Hyrum, which the sheriff used to get drunk while the prisoners escaped, and the promise of $800, which the Sheriff collected later.); (Bushman 2005, p. 382, 635–36).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 246–47, 259) (noting rebukes by Missouri and Illinois newspapers, and "press all over the country"); Bushman (2005, p. 398) (Mormons were depicted as a persecuted minority).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 248) ("There was chronic border friction between Missouri and Illinois, and the 'Suckers' welcomed the chance to demonstrate a nobility of character foreign to the despised 'Pukes'".).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 381) (Saints gathered near Quincy, Illinois.
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 383–84) (noting that the land had strategic importance as a possible major port).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 384).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 398–99); Brodie (1971, p. 259) (Smith "saw to it that the sufferings of his people received national publicity.").
- ^ Smith traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Martin Van Buren and Congress (Bushman (2005, pp. 392–94); Brodie (1971, p. 260)).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 385); Brodie (1971, p. 257). In 1841, malaria claimed the lives of one of Smith's brothers and his son, who died within eight days of each other (Bushman 2005, p. 425).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 258) (arguing that Smith was eager to reclaim some of the prestige that had been ceded to Brigham Young while Smith was imprisoned); (Bushman 2005, p. 386) (Though many of the apostles had malaria, Smith required them to covertly slip into hostile Missouri so that Far West, now deserted, would be their point of departure on exactly 26 April 1838.); Roberts (1905, pp. 46–47) (Revelation given in Far West in 1838: "Let them take leave of my saints in the city of Far West, on the twenty-sixth day of April next, on the building-spot of my house, saith the Lord.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 409); Brodie (1971, pp. 258, 264–65).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 410–11).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 412); Brodie (1971, p. 267–68).
- ^ Bushman (). A similar Hebrew word appears in Isaiah 52: 7.
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 110).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 273); Bushman (2005, p. 426). Prior to the charter, Smith had narrowly avoided two extradition attempts (Brodie (1971, p. 272–73); Bushman (2005, p. 425–26)).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 267); Bushman (2005, p. 412).
- ^ Quinn (1995, p. 106).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 271) (Smith "frequently jested about his outranking every military officer in the United States".); Bushman (2005, p. 259) (noting that Bennett had effective command of the Legion).
- ^ Quinn (1995, p. 106) (The Legion had 2,000 troops in 1842, 3,000 by 1844, compared to less than 8,500 soldiers in the entire United States Army.)
- ^ Ostlings, 11-12. Bushman says more discreetly that Smith "had trouble distinguishing true friends from self-serving schemers." Although Bennett shortly became Smith's nemesis, Smith had first predicted that Bennett was "calculated to be a great blessing to our community."Bushman (2005, p. 410).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 268); Quinn (1995, p. 1067).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 411)
- ^ Quinn (1995, pp. 106–08).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 421).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 448–49).
- ^ D&C 124:28.
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 113).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 449); Quinn (1994, pp. 114–15).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 634).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 384) (Smith viewed Nauvoo as a compromise to his plan to build Zion).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 404).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 384).
- ^ The tent–stake metaphor was derived from Isaiah 54:2.
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 415) (noting that the time when the Millennium was to occur lengthened to "more than 40 years".)
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 111–12).
- ^ Compton (1997) (counting at least 33 total wives); Smith (1994, p. 14) (counting 42 wives); Brodie (1971, pp. 334–36) (counting 49 wives); Bushman (2005, pp. 437, 644) (accepting Compton's count, excepting one wife); Quinn (1994, pp. 587–88) (counting 46 wives); Remini (2002, p. 153) (noting that the exact figure is still debated).
- ^ Foster (1981); Quinn (1994); Compton (1997); Bushman (2005, p. 437); Launius (1988); Van Wagoner (1989); Newell (1994).
- ^ Compton, 11; Remini,154; Brodie, 334-43.
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 491).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 439).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 439).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 438) (Smith approached Joseph Bates Noble about marrying his wife's sister, Smith asked Bates to "keep quiet": "In revealing this to you I have placed my life in your hands, therefore do not in an evil hour betray me to my enemies." Noble performed the ceremony "in a grove near Main Street with Louisa in man's clothing.")
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 310); Bushman (2005, p. 460) (Bennett told women he was seducing that illicit sex was acceptable among the Saints so long as it was kept secret). Bennett, a minimally trained doctor, also promised abortions to any who might became pregnant.
- ^ Ostlings, 12; Bushman, 461-62; Brodie, 314.
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 436).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 427–28).
- ^ Bushman, 468. Boggs survived the attack.
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 113).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 113); Bushman (2005, p. 468) (stating the evidence was circumstantial).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 468–75).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 468).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 504–08).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 508).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 339); Bushman (2005, p. 494); Remini (2002, pp. 152–53).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 638) (first Mormon sealing); Bushman (2005, p. 494).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 339).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 340).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 495-96).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 340–341); Roberts (1909, pp. 505–06) ("A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith,...[that she] receive all those [wives] that have been given unto my servant Joseph.... But if [Emma] will not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law.")
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 496).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 36) (arguing that Smith extended the priesthood to women through the Endowment, rather than through ordination).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 640).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 115).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 115–18).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 115–16) ("Such decisions were made by the formality of 'a vote' after the 'true order of prayer' and the announcement of God's revelation on the subject.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 511); Brodie (1971, p. 356); Quinn (1994, pp. 115–116) (noting that the Anointed Quorum also authorized "a proclamation to the kings of the earth", but Smith never sent it). Smith also threatened Congress. The Millennial Star later quoted Smith as having said that "if Congress will not hear our petition and grant us protection, they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them, and there shall be nothing left of them—not even a grease spot." Quoted in Brodie, 356.
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 119)
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 118-19) (the Anointed Quorum chose Sidney Rigdon as Smith's running mate);Bushman (2005, pp. 514–15); Brodie (1971, pp. 362–64).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 121) (The day before the Council was organized, word reached Smith that a U.S. Indian agent was interfering with acquisition of lumber needed for the Nauvoo Temple).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 120–22) (noting that the Council was authorized by a revelation, and members committed to keep what Smith said during the organizational meeting secret); Bushman (2005, p. 519).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 121).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 517).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 517).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 521) (noting that in April, Smith prophesied "the entire overthrow of this nation in a few years," at which time his Kingdom of God would be prepared to take power); Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 13) (As if they had just organized an independent state, Smith and the Council sent ambassadors to England, France, Russia, and the Republic of Texas); Remini (2002, p. 166).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 521–22) (noting use of the term theodemocracy); Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 15) (council included only three non-Mormons, two of which were known counterfeiters).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 523)|Quinn (1994, p. 124). For a few months, the Council took over from the Anointed Quorum as the leading council of church government.Bushman (2005, p. 525).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 527–28).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 368) (noting that Law and Foster were also the chief city contractors); Bushman (2005, p. 528) (noting that Law had been was a member of the Anointed Quorum); Quinn (1994, p. 528) (Law was criticized in 1843 and then dropped from the Anointed Quorum in January 1844, but after being defended by Hiram Smith, rejected an April 1844 offer by Joseph Smith to be restored to church positions if he stopped opposing polygamy).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 368–69) (Law believed that Smith was misappropriating donations for the Nauvoo House hotel and neglecting other building projects despite the acute housing shortage, while Smith had no respect for building projects by Law and Foster.); Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 14).
- ^ Brodie (1971) ("With sorrow and suspicion Law watched Joseph ever enlarging his circle of wives. Then the prophet tried to approach Law's own wife, Jane." (p. 369); Robert D. Foster came home and caught Smith having dinner alone with his wife, and after a confrontation where weapons were drawn, Mrs. Foster fainted and then said Smith had proposed to her (p. 371)); Van Wagoner (1989, p. 39); Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 14); Bushman (2005, pp. 660–61) (noting that Smith claimed that Jane Law had proposed to him (660–61), citing Journal of Alexander Neibaur, 24 May 1844 (Smith claimed that Jane Law lured him into her house alone, embraced him, and proposed to him, but that Smith resisted her advances); also noting that Smith confronted Mrs. Foster with two witnesses and got her to say that during their dinner, Smith had made no sexual advances and had not "preached the spiritual wife doctrine" (530–31).)).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 371); Bushman (2005, p. 530); Williams, A.B. (15 May 1844), Affidavit, 5, p. 541, http://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n10.htm (Affidavit stating, "Joseph H. Jackson said that Doctor Foster, Chauncy Higbee and the Laws were red-hot for a conspiracy, and he should not be surprised if in two weeks there should be not one of the Smith family left in Nauvoo").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 531).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 531).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 373).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 373).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 373); Bushman (2005, p. 538) (arguing that Smith may have felt justified denying polygamy and "spiritual wifeism" because he thought it was based on a different principle than "plural marriage"); Roberts (1912, pp. 408–412) (Smith stated, "I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives....I have rattled chains before in a dungeon for truth's sake. I am innocent of all these charges, and you can bear witness of my innocence, for you know me yourselves....What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers." "This new holy prophet [Law] has gone to Carthage and swore that I had told him that I was guilty of adultery. This spiritual wifeism! Why, a man dares not speak or wink, for fear of being accused of this").
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 137–38) (noting that the prospectus was published May 10, 1844, and that an informant within the Council of Fifty had told Law about Smith's ordination as king).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 138) (noting that the offer was presented by Sidney Rigdon, who did not have authority to concede polygamy).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 539); Brodie (1971, pp. 374) (arguing that given its authors' intentions to reform the church, the paper was "extraordinarily restrained" given the explosive allegations it could have raised).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 539); Brodie (1971, pp. 374–75).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 375) (stating that the Expositor contained "an unmistakable allusion to Joseph's kingship"); Quinn (1994, pp. 139); Marquardt (2005);Marquardt (1999, p. 312).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 139) (noting that the publishers intended to emphasize the details of Smith's delectable plan of government" in later issues).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 377) (Smith declared that the 1843 revelation on polygamy referred to in the Expositor "was in answer to a question concerning things which transpired in former days, and had no reference to the present time").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 340–41).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 540); Brodie (1971, p. 377); Marquardt (2005); Marquardt (1999, p. 312).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 541) (Smith "failed to see that suppression of the paper was far more likely to arouse a mob than the libels. It was a fatal mistake.").
- ^ Warsaw Signal, June 14, 1844. ("Citizens arise, one and all!!! Can you stand by, and suffer such Infernal Devils! to rob men of their property and rights without avenging them. We have no time for comment, every man will make his own. Let it be made with Powder and Ball!!!."
- ^ Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 16).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 140, 145–46).
- ^ Ostlings, 17; Bushman, 546. Eight Mormon leaders accompanied Smith to Carthage: Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, Willard Richards, John P. Greene, Stephen Markham, Dan Jones, John S. Fullmer, Dr. Southwick, and Lorenzo D. Wasson. [1] All of Smith's associates left the jail, except his brother Hyrum, Richards and Taylor.
- ^ Joseph and Hyrum were accompanied in jail by [[John Taylor (Mormon) and Dr. Willard Richards, who were not prisoners.
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 141) (Major General Jonathan Dunham "realized that such an assault by the Nauvoo Legion would result in two blood baths").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 550) ("Hyrum was the first to fall. A ball through the door struck him on the left side of the nose, throwing him to the floor.")
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 393) ("Joseph discharging all six barrels down the passageway. Three of them missed fire, but the other three found marks."); Bushman & 2005 (2005, p. 549) (Smith received a smuggled six-shooter, and passed along a single-shot pistol to Hyrum).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 393–94); Bushman (2005).
- ^ Arrington and Bitton, 82; Remini, 174-75.
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 552).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 419–20) (arguing that Smith may have been unaware of the other religious materialism arguments circulating in his day, such as those of Joseph Priestly).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 419); Brooke (1994, pp. 3–5); Smith (1830, p. 544) (story from the Book of Ether of Jesus revealing "the body of my spirit" to an especially faithful man, saying humanity was created in the image of his spirit body).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 420).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 421) (noting that Smith once taught the Earth was formed from broken-up pieces of prior planets).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 420–21); Widmer (2000, p. 119).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 420–21).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 421).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 455-56) (arguing that in Smith's theology, God's authority arose not from being an ex nihilo creator, but from having the greatest intelligence).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 421) (quoting Smith as saying, "God is Good & all his acts is for the benefit of infereir inteligences").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 420) (arguing that Smith's original view of a pure spirit God was traditionally Christian); Vogel, Dan, The Earliest Mormon Conception of God in Bergera (1989, pp. 17–33) (arguing that Smith's original view was modalism, Jesus being the embodied manifestation the spirit Father, and that by 1834 Smith shifted to a binitarian formulation favored by Sidney Rigdon, which also viewed the Father as a spirit); Alexander, Thomas, The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine: From Joseph Smith to Progressive Theology in Bergera (1989, p. 53) (prior to 1835, Smith viewed God the Father as "an absolute personage of spirit").
- ^ Widmer (2000, p. 119); Alexander, Thomas, The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine: From Joseph Smith to Progressive Theology in Bergera (1989, p. 539) (describing Smith's doctrine as "material anthropomorphism").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 421) ("Piece by piece, Joseph redefined the nature of God, giving Him a form and a body and locating Him in time and space.").
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 455); Widmer (2000, pp. 70-90).
- ^ Larson (1978, p. 7 (online ver.)).
- ^ Widmer (2000, p. 119).
- ^ Widmer (2000, p. 119).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 455-56, 535-37).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 422).
- ^ Larson (1978, p. 15 (online ver.)).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 199).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 443).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 7).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 7-8).
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 161).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 27-34); Bushman (2005, pp. 264-65).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 7).
- ^ Ostling & Ostling (1999, pp. 194-95).
- ^ Brooke (1994, pp. 30, 194-95, 203, 208) (Smith introduced the sealing power in 1831 as part of the High Priesthood, and then attributed this power to Elijah after he appeared in an 1836 vision in the Kirtland Temple).
- ^ Brooke (1994, pp. 221, 242-43).
- ^ Brooke (1994, pp. 236).
- ^ Brodie, 106, 112, 121-22. In 1834, "Joseph began to efface the communistic rubric in his young theology. Since most copies of the Book of Commandments had been burned, it was easy for him to revise drastically the revelation of the United Order when it was republished in the enlarged Doctrine and Covenants in 1835. The Lord no longer demanded consecration of a man's total property, but only a donation of his 'surplus' over and above living expenses." (141)
- ^ Roberts (1909, pp. 502–07) (1842 revelation describing the New and Everlasting Covenant).
- ^ Foster (1981, pp. 161–62).
- ^ Foster (1981, pp. 161–62) (quoting a source stating that in Smith's view, sex within earthly marriages was not sinful if the marriage was cemented by bonds of love and affection, but sex could be sinful even within marriage if the partners were alienated from each other).
- ^ Foster (1981, p. 145).
- ^ Roberts (1909, pp. 502–03).
- ^ Roberts (1909, pp. 501) ("I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and the keys of this Priesthood are conferred.")
- ^ Foster (1981, p. 145).
- ^ Bloom (1992, p. 108) (polygamy and consequent progression towards godhood were "the true essence of becoming a Latter-day Saint, the heart of Mormon religion making.").
- ^ Bloom (1992, p. 105).
- ^ Foster (1981, p. 145).
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 185-86, 246, 307, 321, 344, 374, 377); Bushman (2005, p. 491) (Smith denied he was advocating polygamy).
- ^ Roberts (1909, p. 501, 507) ("[A]] those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same;...and if ye abide not that covenant, then ye are damned." If a polygamist husband "teaches unto [his wife] the law of my Priesthood as pertaining to these things, then shall she believe and administer unto him, or she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord your God, for I will destroy her."); Bushman (2005, p. 438) (noting the 1843 revelation about being "damned," and Smith's statements that unless he started to marry plural wives, an angel would slay him); Brodie (1971, p. 342) (The 1843 revelation "threatened destruction to any wife who refused to accept the new law".)
- ^ Hullinger (1992, p. 154).
- ^ Hullinger (1992, p. 154-54) (describing how the Book of Mormon solved various 19th century Biblical controversies).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 94); Roberts (1902, p. 315) ("The Book of Mormon is a record of the forefathers of our western tribes of Indians.").
- ^ Brodie (1971, p. 43).
- ^ Brooke (1994, p. 213-14) (arguing that the shift may have related to Oliver Cowdery's failed mission to the Missouri "Lamanites").
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 356-57); Bushman (2005, p. 521); Bloom (1992, p. 90) (Smith identified himself as the stone).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 522-23).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 289, 327-28) (the essay "exhibited the conventional prejudiced of his day in asserting that blacks were cursed with servitude by a 'decree of Jehovah.'"); Hill (1977, p. 381) (noting that Smith did not want to be identified as an abolitionist, even when he disfavored slavery).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 289); Hill (1977, p. 380, 383) (citing 1833 revelation stating that "it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another").
- ^ Hill (1977, p. 384).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 289); Hill (1977, p. 384-85).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 289); Hill (1977, p. 379).
- ^ Hill (1977, p. 379).
- ^ Bushman (2005, p. 289); Hill (1977, pp. 381-82, 85).
- ^ Roberts (1902, p. 435).
- ^ Roberts (1909, p. 296).
- ^ Smith (1835, sec. LXXX, 207-08)
- ^ For instance, Smith drank wine "with relish" and noted his drinking in his journal "without apology." Brodie (1971, p. 289). Smith "himself liked a nip every now and then, especially at weddings." His own Mansion House, which operated a hotel, maintained a fully stocked barroom, and Nauvoo also had a brewery that advertised in the church newpaper." According to Smith's fellow prisoner John Taylor, "the prophet requested and drank wine at Carthate Jail the night before his was murdered in 1844." Ostling (1999, pp. 177-78).
- ^ Smith (1830, p. 332) Engaging a prostitute was "most abominable above all sins, save it be the shedding of innocent blood, or denying the Holy Ghost".
- ^ Phelps (1833, p. 135).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 88-89, 112).
- ^ Smith (1830, pp. 12-13).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 88-89).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 143); Brodie (1971, p. 398).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 143) ("He proposed more than one way for a member of the First Presidency to succeed him, left the relative priority of the founding quorums in an ambiguous balance, performed secret ordinations, and suggested more than one method by which a brother or son might succeed him.").
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 143).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 213) (after Smith was crowned king, Hyrum referred to himself as "President of the Church"), and Brigham Young agreed Hyrum would have been the natural successor.
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 152-54, 213); Bushman (2005, p. 555).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 213-26); Bushman (2005, p. 555) (William Smith "made a bid for the Church presidency, but his unstable character kept him from being a serious contender".).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 226-41) (outlining the sons' claims and noting, "Even Brigham Young acknowledged the claims of patrilineal succession and as a result never argued that the Quorum of Twelve had exclusive right of succession."); Ostling & Ostling (1999, p. 42).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 192-98) (before his death, Smith had charged the Fifty with the responsibility of establishing the Millennial kingdom in his absence; the Quorum of Twelve would eventually claim this "charge" as their own).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 187-91).
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 556-57).
- ^ Desert News "Addressing the New Mission Presidents Seminar on June 24, President Hinckley announced that LDS Church membership had reached 13 million." See also: Watson, F. Michael (April 2008), Statistical Report, 2007, http://www.lds.org, http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-9,00.html, retrieved 2008-04-14, "Total Membership: 13,193,999"
- ^ Bushman (2005, pp. 557). The largest existing Rigdonitechurch is the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 211); Bushman (2005, p. 556) (Strang followed Smith's example of producing revelations with a seer stone, saying an angel had ordained him, translating scripture from buried plates, having himself crowned as theocratic king, and practicing polygamy). Strang's current followers consist of the tiny Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 210); Bushman (2005, p. 555).
- ^ Quinn (1994, p. 211); Bushman (2005, p. 556) (Strang followed Smith's example of producing revelations with a seer stone, saying an angel had ordained him, translating scripture from buried plates, having himself crowned as theocratic king, and practicing polygamy).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 198-203).
- ^ Quinn (1994, pp. 203-09).
- ^ Emma Smith claimed that the very first time she ever became aware of a polygamy revelation being attributed by Mormons to Joseph Smith was when she read about it in Orson Pratt's booklet The Seer in 1853, Saints' Herald 65:1044–1045
- ^ Church History, 3: 355-356.
- ^ Brodie (1971, pp. 110–11).
- ^ The adopted twins were born of Julia Clapp Murdock and John Murdock
- ^ "Research focuses on Smith family". Deseret News. 2005-05-28. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600137517,00.html. ; "DNA tests rule out 2 as Smith descendants: Scientific advances prove no genetic link". Deseret News. 2007-11-10. http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695226318,00.html. ; name=Perego>Perego, Ugo A.; Myers, Natalie M.; Woodward, Scott R. (Summer 2005), "Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith, Jr.: Genealogical Applications" (PDF), Journal of Mormon History 32 (2), http://mha.wservers.com/pubs/TOC/05_July_Journal_TOC.pdf Although Bushman suggested that Smith had married twenty-seven other women, there is no DNA evidence that Smith fathered any children by any woman other than Emma. Bushman, 493; Compton, 4-7; Remini, 153-54; Brodie, "The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith," Appendix C in No Man Knows My History, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1971), 457-88. Remini, 153. Brodie guessed that there might have been as many as 48 plural wives, but succeeding scholars have considered her numbers exaggerated. Remini said that the true number might have been as high as eighty-four, although many of these might have been "simply sacred sealings for eternity." Remini, 153. Smith's biography in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 3: 1337, says that Smith took at least twenty-eight plural wives. On her deathbed, Emma Smith denied that her husband had ever practiced polygamy.Church History, 3: 355-356.
- ^ Saints' Herald 65:1044–1045
- ^ Times and Seasons 3 [August 1, 1842]: 869
- ^ Times and Seasons 3 [October 1, 1842]: 940. In March 1844, Emma said, "we raise our voices and hands against John C. Bennett's 'spiritual wife system', as a scheme of profligates to seduce women; and they that harp upon it, wish to make it popular for the convenience of their own cupidity; wherefore, while the marriage bed, undefiled is honorable, let polygamy, bigamy, fornication, adultery, and prostitution, be frowned out of the hearts of honest men to drop in the gulf of fallen nature". The document The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo. signed by Emma Smith as President of the Ladies' Relief Society, was published within the article Virtue Will Triumph, Nauvoo Neighbor, March 20, 1844 (LDS History of the Church 6:236, 241) including on her deathbed where she stated "No such thing as polygamy, or spiritual wifery, was taught, publicly or privately, before my husband's death, that I have now, or ever had any knowledge of...He had no other wife but me; nor did he to my knowledge ever have". Church History3: 355-356
- ^ (Van Wagoner 1992, pp. 113–115) As Fawn Brodie has written, this denial was "her revenge and solace for all her heartache and humiliation." (Brodie, 399) "This was her slap at all the sly young girls in the Mansion House who had looked first so worshipfully and then so knowingly at Joseph. She had given them the lie. Whatever formal ceremony he might have gone through, Joseph had never acknowledged one of them before the world." Newell and Avery wrote of "the paradox of Emma's position", quoting her friend and lawyer Judge George Edmunds who stated "that's just the hell of it! I can't account for it or reconcile her statements." (Newell & Avery 1994, p. 308)
- ^ Bushman (2005), 554. Brodie says that she "came to fear and despise" Brigham Young. Brodie, 399.
- ^ Bushman (2005), 554.
- ^ Bushman (2005), 554-55. Emma Smith married Major Lewis Bidamon, an "enterprising man who made good use of Emma's property." Although Bidamon sired an illegitimate child when he was 62 (whom Emma reared), "the couple showed genuine affection for each." Bushman (2205), 555.
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