TWENTY-TWO
(1827)
Joseph completed his coursework with a curriculum including both religion and human reality. He received his
Final Lesson by returning to his pre-mortal home of origin. He took possession of the plates, the Urim
and Thummim, and Moroni’s breastplate. Legends abounded concerning these artifacts.Joseph’s Curriculum and the Five W’s
Joseph’s four-year education was now in its final stage. By September 22nd, Joseph
was ready to extract the gold plates, the Urim and Thummim, and Moroni’s breastplate
from the box in which they were buried over 1,400 years before. By then, he understood
what these artifacts were and their significance to the role he was ready and fully educated
to perform for the sake of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Joseph received most of the “instruction and intelligence”^1 (curriculum) provided in
his four-year education from the Brothers. These four men knew, not only everything there
was to know about the human inhabitants of the earth, but also everything there was to
know about more advanced humans living on other earths throughout the Universe.
Throughout his schooling, the Brothers prepared specifically designed class syllabuses that
ensured Joseph’s proper training and understanding.
Each course taught by the Brothers included the “Five W’s” that are important to the
“learned”^2 of the world. These are the principles of inquiry that must be answered in order
to accomplish the acceptable minimum for complete and accurate fact-finding: Who, What,
Where, When, and Why. They gave courses on the history of the Bible (both the Old and
New Testaments): who actually wrote it, how it was written, where it was written, when it was
written, and why it was written. Other class syllabuses included how money was
incorporated into human civilization and why it was, where it was, when it was, and who was
responsible for introducing it during each period of cultural development on this earth.
In addition, the Brothers taught Joseph how the acknowledged and accepted “facts”
of any given society’s history became “facts.” Joseph learned a vast amount of information
about the insignificance of secular knowledge, all of which left him with a greater
understanding of the following scripture verse in the New Testament (ironically found in a
book named “Timothy”):
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ...For men shall
be...ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.^3Joseph learned that none of the learning, none of the theories, and none of the
secular education, sciences, philosophies, or anything else that mortals valued as
“knowledge,” was real truth.^4 They were all vain and foolish imaginations invented in the
minds of humans who had forgotten all that they knew when they were first created and
taught by their advanced creators. Joseph learned what the Book of Mormon would later state
about a person searching for truth—that the person would not learn anything of real truth
(i.e., “the Lord God will not open up to them”) unless the person first “consider[ed]