Mormon Polygamy—The Truth Revealed! Appendix 2more say as to what this religion would be. Without revealing his true identity and how he
really felt about what “the people desired,”^53 Joseph did the best that he could to protect the
women from the lascivious nature of man. Without him around to counter their “personal
revelation and priesthood power,” the men were out of control.
Joseph knew that a woman was more valuable to the eternal plan of human creation
and existence than any man could ever be. He had met his own eternal mother and felt the
eternal bond that exists between an advanced human mother and her child. She was his
mother and had given her child the choice of gender and the preference of how to use its
free agency. With this free agency, Joseph chose to be her son. He chose to live in mortality
as a servant to other human children, who did not understand who they were or where they
came from. This is Joseph’s true identity!
NOTES
(^1) SNS, 15.
(^2) Brian Hales (a Mormon author) in Peggy F. Stack, “Comparing Mormon founder, FLDS
leader on polygamy,” The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2011, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/csp/cms/sites/sltrib/pages/printerfriendly.csp?id=52371806.
(^3) Gideon T. Ridlon, Sr., Saco Valley Settlements (Rutland: Chas. Tuttle, 1895) 281.
(^4) Consider, for example: Matthew 10: 37–38; Matthew 12: 48–49.
(^5) Isaiah 4:1: And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our
own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
(^6) Matthew 27:55.
(^7) DHC, 4:535–41. See also PGP, Articles of Faith 1:11.
(^8) Oliver Cowdery, “Cochranism Delineated,” The Oliver Cowdery Papers (San Marino:
Huntington Library, circa 1838).
(^9) BOM, Jacob 2:23–28; 3:3–5.
(^10) Valeen Tippetts Avery, From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet (Urbana:
Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998) 232–43.
(^11) Ridlon, 281.
(^12) DHC, 1:458–64.
(^13) D&C, 101:1–2, 5–8.
(^14) Section 101, verse 4 of the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph Smith, Jr.,
Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God
(Kirtland: Williams & Co, 1835) 251.
(^15) TSP, 82:37–42.
(^16) DHC, 5:501–506.
(^17) DHC, 5:500.
(^18) DHC, 5:507.
(^19) See notes and commentary of chapter 37.
(^20) Compare BOM, Jacob 2:31–35.
(^21) See Christopher, Sacred, not Secret for an explanation of the “sealing power” (pg. 54) and the
entire endowment.
(^22) DHC, 5:507.