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Be Ye Perfect?

29 Jul 20219 Jan 2022

When the Lord was on the earth he gave a curious commandment: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). Clearly this…

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Infinite: You and the Substance of the Universe

24 Oct 20195 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the origins of the universe—namely, the creation story of traditional Judeo-Christian doctrine versus the “organization” taught by the LDS church versus…

Doctrinal Expositions

One of the Plainest Books

25 May 201920 Jan 2022

The Beast of Revelation as an Extraterrestrial Introduction The following is a curated reproduction of an electrifying discourse by Joseph Smith that he gave just a year previous to his…

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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…

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.