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Horite Priest-Kings, the New and Everlasting Covenant, & the Succession Crisis of 1844

23 Jan 20231 Feb 2023

Tall Tales & Many Wives In the late Spring of 1888, the American imagination was alive with stories of cowboys and Indians battling in the untamed frontier. Many larger-than-life stories…

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Signs of the Times: Where Are We in Revelation?

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022

The future has been a subject of great interest for professed holy men for as long as the earth has endured. However, our knowledge that we live in the last…

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Inner Symbolism of the Garden of Eden

1 Aug 20221 Aug 2022

When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they obeyed the Law of Sacrifice in offering up the firstlings of their flock as they had been commanded…

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Progression & Probations

28 Feb 202228 Feb 2022

Dedicated to CS On a warm summer day in 1888, a 32-year-old Orson F. Whitney sat down in Heber, Utah, to enjoy the company of the then-Apostle, Lorenzo Snow. Snow…

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Protology: Sinai and the Pre-Earth Council

21 Jan 202222 Jan 2022

The events of this transitory life can only be correctly understood with a knowledge of what transpired before this world and what will transpire after. This notion has been likened…

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If You Could Hie to Sirius B

6 Apr 20215 Jan 2022

Kolob has been the fascination of Mormons ever since the Prophet Joseph Smith presented to the world the lost teachings of Abraham concerning the stars and our place among them.…

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Classic Truth: Darkened in their Minds

10 Mar 202110 Mar 2021

The following is taken from a discourse Joseph Smith gave to the Female Relief Society on the 26th of May, 1842, in Nauvoo, Illinois (Documentary History of the Church 5:19,…

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Plural Marriage & The Parable of the Talents

22 Dec 202022 Sep 2022

Forward This essay is being written in response to the appearance of a viewpoint among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints espoused and common to the…

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What did Joseph Smith Look Like?

23 Oct 20205 Jan 2022

When it comes to the image of the Prophet Joseph Smith, hundreds of gifted artists and researches have produced a myriad of images over the past 200 years to help…

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Asherah: Mother in Heaven

29 Apr 20208 Jun 2020

One of the most significant doctrines restored by the Prophet Joseph Smith is a knowledge that deity does not exist on a principle of celibate solitude (let alone incorporeal corporality).…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.