Twenty-Five (1830)1830; 37 in 1831; 18 in 1832; 12 in 1833. Then after 1833, the number dropped sharply to only 33
given for the next decade from 1834 to 1844.
While the D&C is comprised of a specific and limited number of actual revelations that
are now broken down into numbered “sections,” many sections are simply comprised of bits
and pieces of something Joseph wrote or said. Most of these were made relevant as they were
patch-worked into the text by those who edited and put together the compilation. Even after
they were compiled into the Book of Commandments of 1833, many were altered after-the-fact in
the follow-on publication of the Doctrine and Covenants of 1835, and even more in later
editions. More will be explained concerning these changes in later years of this biography.
Joseph gave revelations when and to whom they were needed. But when the
resurrected Joseph reflected upon the many times that he “spoke for the Lord” while he was
a mortal and when asked during his interviews with this author why the difference in
number after the year 1833, he replied in earnest,
“I became weary and tired in creating them.”This, the resurrected Joseph said with the same smile that he had on his face when asking
his followers, when man was going to take responsibility for his own actions (as narrated above).
Joseph’s True Success, Supported by Advanced Human Beings
Joseph was only twenty-four years old when he became the legal author and proprietor
of the Book of Mormon and the “prophet, seer, and revelator” for a people purporting to be
hungry for “further light and knowledge”^64 from God. The people wanted someone to preach to
them. They wanted religion. No other human in the verifiable history of the world, at this
young of an age, accomplished what Joseph did “by himself” without the aid and help of any
other person...at least that’s what the people of the earth have been led to believe.
No fully mortal man could have done what was required of Joseph without failing in
some way, either emotionally or physically or technically as to all the details of what he said
and wrote. On his shoulders was the fate of tens of hundreds of people who, in his day,
looked to him as God’s spokesperson upon the earth. On his shoulders was the
responsibility, given by advanced human beings, to lay the groundwork that would allow a
new and powerful American religion to be born, endowing millions more with the
knowledge to understand and accept one day—when their eyes are fully opened—that they
cannot be trusted with the power of advanced human beings. Without any prior experience,
without being “trained for the ministry” as the leaders of the human race usually were, are,
and would become, Joseph Smith, Jr. accomplished a feat unmatched by any other mortal.
Undeniably, no man could do it...alone.
Indeed, Joseph was not alone. Unbeknownst to his followers, friends, family, and
even the woman he valued more than any other—his wife Emma—Joseph would often
retreat into the woods away from everyone to receive further guidance. He did not receive
this guidance through his mind in the form of revelation and inspiration. He was not
invisibly prompted by any “God” or “Lord” as to what to say, nor was he influenced
through deep meditation and thought. Rather, it was in the woods and away from the view
of others where he met regularly with the Brothers and, at times, with actual, physical
human beings residing on other planets, who spoke with him face-to-face “as a man
speaketh with another.”^65 A person has to physically interact with these human beings from