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What did Joseph Smith Look Like?

23 Oct 20204 Dec 2025

Note: the research in this post has been superceded by that of a newer blog post and candidate image of Joseph Smith: Is This Photograph Finally Joseph Smith? When it…

The Celestial, not the Terrestrial, Inherit the Earth?

7 Nov 20193 Mar 2022

"Also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial, and bodies telestial; but the glory of the celestial, one; and the terrestrial, another; and the telestial, another."There is one glory of the sun,…

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Classic Truth: Administering the Form Without the Power

5 Nov 20193 Mar 2022

The following is a story from the life of the pioneer saint, Joseph Bates Noble: By request, I shall attempt to refer to some things, of which I have been…

Replies to Thomas

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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Classic Truth: The Revelation of John Vs. Daniel

26 Apr 20193 Mar 2022

Sermon delivered by Joseph Smith the Prophet at the General Conference of the Church at Nauvoo, Ill. on Saturday April 8, 1843: The subject I intend to speak upon this…

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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…

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Yet They Shall Come Forth in the First Resurrection

15 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The title of this short essay is taken from this scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man marry a wife according to…

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Not My Will, But Thine: The Calling and Election

5 Nov 20175 Nov 2019

“There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this   world, upon which all blessings are predicated—and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is…

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Revelation, Truth, and Error: Laws of Detection

31 Jan 20155 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I still haven't got around to changing my world view, as you suggested. But I feel concerned that even if I begin to see God's hand in my past, I may…

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.