FIFTEEN
(1820)
The new American Republic in the U.S. had proclaimed religious freedom, setting the stage
for the visitation of an advanced human being to a boy living there. Joseph’s independent, searching,
teenage mind helped to prepare him as the one chosen to receive the visit. For the first time,
the full, true story of Christ’s appearance to Joseph Smith, Jr. is revealed.The Ideal Setting of the United States
The United States of America was only a few decades old when an advanced human
being living on a planet in another solar system came to this earth to introduce himself to a
young American boy. Joseph was barely 14 years old and had no idea that anyone existed in
the Universe outside of his world. There was a very good reason why advanced humans
waited until 1820 to make an appearance, and why they chose a young, Caucasian
American boy as their first modern-day contact.
The U.S. Government, a bold new political experiment, was the first of its kind. It
had been established as a Republic by its Founding Fathers in 1787, with elected
representatives acting under a constitution designed for a people who wished to govern
themselves.^1 In 1820, the privilege of voting, unlike today, had not yet undergone the
amending process. Consequently, the original document only permitted landed white
males (i.e., property owners) to vote for the representatives who, in turn, wrote the laws of
the land. Those laws provided legal protection under the auspices of governmental
protection to worship^2 God according to the dictates of one’s own conscience.^3 A person
was allowed to worship how, where, or what they may.^4
As a result, people had nothing to fear from a dictator or theocratic power that could
punish them, not only for what they did, but also for what they thought. Prior to the
establishment of this ostensibly free form of government, human beings upon the earth were
forced to believe in and support ideals and morals that often did not reflect the true nature
of the individual, free-willed human soul. Societal structure was mandated by a very few
powerful men, who punished anyone who would not submit to their ways of thinking.^5
People were not truly free, being “acted upon” by the will of leaders of every kind.
The Perfect Individual to be Chosen
Advanced monitors wanted to give mortals another chance to accept a belief system and
a universal moral standard that had always failed in the past (except in a few isolated instances).
Considering the state of the world in the early 1800’s (in relation to every society of the past),
where would the best place be to accomplish it? How would one determine who should be
chosen to ensure the greatest success of its implementation? Should it be an adult whose
traditions and cognitive paradigms had already been established? It certainly could not be a
little child; because a child’s ability to rationally understand concepts is still being developed.
This leaves the teenager. The problem with older teenagers is that they know just
enough that they easily come under the delusion that they are more knowledgeable than