chapter v – The Science of Theology

Doctrinal Expositions

Are You Afflicted By Psychic Pride?

20 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The great obstacle to developing one's spiritual senses is that of one's psychic pride. Pride in the pejorative sense is typically defined as excessive self-esteem or a dangerous overabundance of…

Poetry

Heavenly Mother

13 May 20175 Nov 2019

Born in Heaven long ago, a daughter; Taught on a mother's lap to love the right, She vowed not to forget her alma mater, For war came to the door mid dark and light.…

Poetry

The Living Christ: A Poem

1 May 201713 Dec 2019

His life surpassed all—His atoned; By Sacrifice our souls are owned; Mid mortals—as He too was tried— None other’s strength mankind shall bide. Moses wrote of Godly power; John beheld…

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Time: All is as One Day with God

21 Jul 20165 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Life: what a waste of time! I find it hard to believe that God would waste time having me and the other billions of humans bumbling about stubbing…

Doctrinal Expositions

And the Gods Watched

8 Apr 20165 Nov 2019

Introduction The intention of this document is to provide, scripturally, a sound explanation of the various planets we observe in our solar system and what clues they may provide toward…

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The Seed Must Die: Creation in His Image

18 Feb 201624 Mar 2020

Dear Joseph, I like what you've written to me about the need for faith, but I still find myself surrounded by evidences that God, as a supreme controller of all…

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The Postman

17 Nov 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I haven't been able to devote as much time as I'd like towards reinterpreting my world view, as you've suggested. I mean, I find it hard to be…

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Mother Earth: Eternal, Geographical Inheritance

27 Oct 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I can't help but wonder if my insistence on trying to solve my mental dilemmas with God's nature is just a by-product of having been raised to believe in…

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One Eternal Non-Euclidean Round

26 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, So God has been around as long as we have? I think I see what you mean. Might it be analogized like so: God knows he is ahead…

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Is There No Other Way?

24 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, In between this last visit and the one, the missionaries stopped by while I was upstairs and gave my boy (who was in fact Batman at the time and as…

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.