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The Safety of Simple Prayers

28 Sep 202131 May 2023

Jesus in mortality railed most of all against hypocrites, or what me might term actors or pretenders (the Greek word from which hypocrite is derived means just that: an actor!).…

Joseph Taught Rebaptism

27 Sep 202131 May 2023

An early practice of the LDS was that of rebaptism, or the baptism of person who had already been baptized (and this for themselves, not proxy for the dead). Brigham…

Brother Joseph: Seeing vs. Entering the Kingdom

26 Sep 202131 May 2023

Elder Daniel Tyler, who now resides at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, has furnished us with a number of items concerning the Prophet Joseph—not only incidents in his life, but some…

Brother Joseph: Prophecy and Meteorology

23 Sep 202131 May 2023

Elder Daniel Tyler, who now resides at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, has furnished us with a number of items concerning the Prophet Joseph—not only incidents in his life, but some…

Brother Joseph: The Dead Brought to Life

22 Sep 202131 May 2023

[Elder Levi Curtis, of Springville, Utah, relates the following incident which, as he states, was told him by one of the principal parties referred to.] About the month of August,…

Priesthood and Good Works

9 Sep 202127 May 2023

In the New Testament an account reaches us of a man who could cast out devils in the name of Christ but who knew not Christ personally: "John said to…

Resurrection: Born in the Wind

22 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

The Native Americans call God the Great Spirit and the Bible too says "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24). Though other scriptures teach that God's spirit is tabernacled in a…

Doctrinal Expositions

If You Could Hie to Sirius B

6 Apr 202120 Jul 2023

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.…

Doctrinal Expositions

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,…

Doctrinal Expositions

Plural Marriage & The Parable of the Talents

22 Dec 202015 Sep 2024

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…

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.