Without Disclosing My True Identity
leading a people who were aimlessly wandering in the wilderness (symbolically),
because they were not allowed to enter the “Promised Land.”
He was commanded to allow the people to have whatever their hearts desired when
it came to religion, church, priesthood authority, and leadership—even allowing
them to believe everything that had nothing to do with the proper code of universal
humanity. This “proper code” can be summarized in the Royal Law: Do unto others
what you would have them do unto you.
He was commanded not to disclose his true identity.This book (the notebook of real truth concerning Joseph Smith, Jr.) will reveal and
prove to the world these and many other important truths relevant to the life and mission of
Joseph Smith, Jr. and to Mormonism. Joseph, himself, now as an advanced human being,
has authorized the disclosures set forth herein. Finally, the truth concerning his life as the
Mormon prophet will be known!
NOTES
(^1) The earliest known journal of Joseph Smith, Jr. begins in 1832, at age 22. Joseph himself only
commits three paragraphs to describe his life from birth to age 14 (DHC, 1:1). In her published history
of Joseph Smith, Lucy Mack Smith states, “I shall say nothing respecting him until he arrived at the
age of fourteen.” Lavina Fielding Anderson, Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family
Memoir (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001) 329.
(^2) See DHC, 1:2–3 or JSH 1:14–20.
(^3) See DHC, 1:5–7, or JSH 1:29–53.
(^4) Joseph Smith briefly mentions these years in DHC, 1:4–5; and JSH 1:27–8.
(^5) JSH 1:11–14.
(^6) JSH 1:53–4 (emphasis added).
(^7) He commits one sentence to describe these interviews in DHC, 1:8; JSH 1:54.
(^8) DHC, 1:11–12.
(^9) JSH 1:54.
(^10) Dean C. Jessee, “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” BYU Studies 11:4 (Summer 1971):
- See also DHC, Period I. For an LDS historian’s defense of the DHC, see Dean C. Jessee, “The
Reliability of Joseph Smith’s History,” Journal of Mormon History, 3 (1976) 23–46.
(^11) See Richard S. Van Wagoner, “The Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of
Brigham Young,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 28.4 (Winter 1995): 1–24.
(^12) See: Linda Sillitoe and Allen D. Roberts, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988); and Richard E. Turley, Jr., Victims: The LDS Church and the
Mark Hofmann Case (Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1992).
(^13) See e.g., Dallin H. Oaks, “Recent Events Involving Church History and Forged Documents,”
Ensign, Oct 1987: 63; and Boyd K. Packer, “The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect,” BYU
Studies, 21:3 (Summer 1981) 259–78.
(^14) “Community of Christ History,” 2009, Community of Christ, 16 May 2010
http://www.cofchrist.org/history.
(^15) Three of the most popular and comprehensive LDS-critical works: