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		<title>Kingships and Coronation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the study of sixty-two coronation ceremonies. Below are the elements of Coronation and Kingship as discussed by Irstam in Raphael Patai&#8217;s, Jewish Folklore, and Hocart. A. M. Hocart&#8217;s monumental work on Kingship has been the catalysts for understanding kingship, coronation and temple ritual in ancient as well as modern times. Keep in mind that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the Pearl of Great Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APOCALYPTIC THEMES COMMON IN ALL DISPENSATIONS 1. The situation or social iniquity. 2. The &#8220;hero&#8217;s&#8221; reaction to the situation. 3. The Lord&#8217;s reply to the &#8220;hero&#8217;s&#8221; 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 &#8220;hero&#8221; returns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of the Pearl of Great Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The book that concerns us was purposely called &#8220;The Pearl of Great Price.&#8221; 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&#8211;brought out of the depths by the strenuous and determined efforts of whoever would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catholic Liturgy and the Mormon Temple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus von Wellnitz * BYU Studies Vol. 21, No. 1, pg.3 Most of the world&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The False Gods We Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ritual Embrace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Will Still Weep for Zion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Lamentation Literature is born. Here is the standard scenario: &#8220;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?&#8221; Maybe the following can explain some things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scriptural Perspectives on How to Survive  the Calamities of the Last Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hugh W. Nibley 470 &#8220;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&#8221; (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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Call: An Apocalyptic Warning from the Book of Mormon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hugh W. Nibley 498 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, &#8220;a tale told by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ldspromisedland.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>The Hopewell Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Hopewell culture) The Hopewell tradition (also incorrectly called the &#8220;Hopewell culture&#8221;[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 [...]]]></description>
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