Twenty (1825)
(^9) HR, 1:40.
(^10) Matthew 10:36.
(^11) BOM, Moroni 7:14.
(^12) See BOM, Moroni 7:12–16.
(^13) BOM, 2 Nephi 32:3–6.
(^14) BOM, 2 Nephi 32:3.
(^15) BOM, Moroni, 7:16.
(^16) BOM, 2 Nephi 32:7.
(^17) BOM, Moroni 7:16.
(^18) See BOM, Jacob, chapter 5
(^19) BOM, Jacob 5:42, 46–8.
(^20) BOM, Jacob 5:48.
(^21) BOM, Jacob 5:47
(^22) BOM, Jacob 5; See also TSP, 12:42–9; 37:79; 57:47–50; 91:68–94.
(^23) “Every member of the Church is entitled to the blessings of divine communion and
revelation for his or her own comfort and guidance.” James Hastings, The Encyclopedia of Religion
and Ethics, Part 21, 82–3.
(^24) TSP, 12:29, 35; 20:100; 24:84–87; 25:83–7; 38:8–10.
(^25) TSP, chapter 9. See also infra Appendix 1 on the Priesthood.
(^26) BOM, 2 Nephi 32:7. “Great God!” exclaimed a frustrated Joseph Smith, “where is common
sense and reason? Is there none on the earth?” (DHC, 5:297.)
(^27) See BOM, Jacob 4:14.
(^28) See DHC 6:561–2; 7:11, 85.
(^29) See DHC 3:175.
(^30) See DHC 4:40. Said President Martin Van Buren, “What can I do? I can do nothing for you!
If I do anything, I shall come in contact with the whole state of Missouri.”
(^31) BOM, 2 Nephi 26:33.
(^32) See D&C, 42:43.
(^33) “Br. Woodruff spoke. ...He referred to a saying of Joseph Smith, which he heard him utter
(like this) That if the People knew what was behind the vail [sic], they would try by every means to
commit suicide that they might get there, but the Lord in his wisdom had implanted the fear of death
in every person that they might cling to life and thus accomplish the designs of their creator.” Diary of
Charles Lowell Walker, ed. A. Karl Larson and Katherine M. Larson, vol. 1 (Logan: Utah State UP, 1980)
465–6. See also Matthew 8:22.
(^34) Matthew 22:35; TSP, 16:88; 73:51.
(^35) BOM, Alma 10:17, 27–32; 3 Nephi 6:21.
(^36) HR, 8:2; TSP, 13:4, 25, 29, 36.
(^37) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:7.
(^38) Matthew 23:15.
(^39) Matthew 5:43–4.
(^40) TSP, 16:46–7; 20:30–8, 44, 48–9, 66–8, 75, 103; HR, 11:56; 13:30–1; 14:22; 15:13; 16:62; 17:21.
(^41) HR, 11:58–62; TSP, 16:19.
(^42) BOM, Mormon 6:19.
(^43) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 91–2.
(^44) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 92. See also Psalms 46:10.
(^45) Hugh Nibley, The Myth Makers (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1961) 49, reprinted in volume
11 of The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley: Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass (Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book and FARMS, 1992).
(^46) See Christopher, Sacred, not Secret for a full explanation of the LDS Temple Endowment.
(^47) BOM, Alma 12:10.