APOCALYPTIC THEMES COMMON IN ALL DISPENSATIONS

1. The situation or social iniquity.

2. The “hero’s” reaction to the situation.

3. The Lord’s reply to the “hero’s” reaction in the form of a revelation.

4. The visions from the Lord, these visions usually in the form of a Theophany, and or Cosmology.

5. The “hero” returns from vision to give a… Continue reading

The book that concerns us was purposely called “The Pearl of Great Price.” That term being both in scripture and apacrypha the designation of a treasure that is both hidden and inexhaustible. Being hidden, it must be searched out and dug up–brought out of the depths by the strenuous and determined efforts of whoever would possess it. Being inexhaustibly vast, it can never cease to be a source of new… Continue reading

by Marcus von Wellnitz *
BYU Studies Vol. 21, No. 1, pg.3

Most of the world’s religions incorporate some form of ritual into their worship, be it merely the singing of a hymn in a meeting, the wearing of a particular attire, or kneeling at a certain time and place. The older the religion is, the more complex and numerous the ceremonies seem to be and the more they… Continue reading

By President Spencer W. Kimball
Ensign, June 1976

1. I have heard that the sense most closely associated with memory is the sense of smell. If this is true, then perhaps it explains the many pleasing feelings that overtake me these mornings when I am able to step outdoors for a few moments and breathe in the warm and comfortable aromas that I have come to associate over the… Continue reading

Hugh Nibley, The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1975], 242.)

The Egyptian, Ritual Embrace or Sacred Embrace received as part of the ancient coronation ritual conveyed to the pharaoh the attributes and powers that allowed him to become the recognized son and god on earth. The powers most often conveyed in the embrace was: ankh – immortality and… Continue reading

A new Lamentation Literature is born. Here is the standard scenario: “I am a young, hard-working Latter-day Saint; six months ago I was well on the way to financial independence, following the admonitions of my elders. Today I am broke, and my children lack necessities. What went wrong?” Maybe the following can explain some things.

Breaking Away

In every dispensation of the gospel, the Lord has insisted on… Continue reading

Hugh W. Nibley

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“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14). That is an established pattern: hard upon the preaching of the gospel comes its rejection, followed by destruction and darkness. Each time, it is called the end of the aeon, the age or dispensation. This description appears most… Continue reading

Hugh W. Nibley

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The message of the Book of Mormon is that Jesus is the Christ. On the truth of that proposition depends our only hope for eternal life, and without that we are going nowhere, as many a wise man now assures; life becomes absurd, much ado about nothing, “a tale told by an idiot,” and so on. First and foremost, the Book of Mormon preaches… Continue reading

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The Hopewell tradition (also incorrectly called the “Hopewell culture”[citation needed]) is the term used to describe common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and Midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society, but a widely dispersed set of related populations. They… Continue reading