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Progression & Probations

28 Feb 202224 Feb 2025

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…

Doctrinal Expositions

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…

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.…

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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…

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Trailing Clouds of Glory Do We Come

22 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, The missionaries have explained that in the preexistence we chose to come here so that we could learn and choose to become more like God. I think I understand…

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Heaven or Hell?

9 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, Mormon doctrine teaches that God manipulated pre-existing matter? Is that accurate? So . . . he "built" then, right? He didn't create. And if THAT'S accurate then I…

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Let us Commune: Forgiveness

4 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Thomas, I must preface what I want to say with a disclaimer that if there is fault or error in what I am attempting to convey, find fault with…

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.