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One Eternal Round

January 2, 1998 by • Abraham, Acadia, Adam, Adam-Ondi-Ahman, Alexandria, Ancient of Days, apostasy, Aristotle, atonement, Avebury, Bible, Book of Ether, Book of Mormon, Book of Moses, Book of the Dead, Brigham Young, carnal, celestial, center drama, ceremonial centers, civilization, cosmos, devil(s), devilish, dungeons and dragons, Egypt, Egyptian, esoteric, Ether book of, exoteric, Faust, Freemasonry, gnosticism, God, Golden Age, Great Assembly Migrations, Great Assembly Pyramid, Greece, Greek philosophy, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetic, hermeticism, Hermetism, ignorance, Imhotep, intelligence, Iran, Israel, Joseph Smith, Kabbalah, Lord Raglan, Morris Kline, Moses, Moses book of, mysteries, mythical, Neo-Platonists, Nephi, Newton, Noah, One Eternal Round, Origen (early church father), philosophy, Plato, prehistoric, priesthood, prophet(s), Pythagoras, religion, revelation(s), rites, ritual, sacred place, Satan, science, Sefer Yetzirah, sensual, Silbury Hill, Sophists, soul(s), Stonehenge, temple(s), the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Moses, the Sacred Marriage, truth, unbelief, unrighteous dominion, wickedness, wise and wholesome laws, Zoroaster

CWHN 12:379-433

The Meaning of the Temple

September 14, 1995 by • Abraham, Adam, Analiza Brigham Young, Apocalypse of Abraham, apocalyptic, architecture, astronomy, atonement, awareness, Babylonia, Book of Mormon, brain, Brigham Young, catastrophes, celestial, center, chance, chaos, Christian(s), Christianity, civilization, computers, corruption, cosmology, cosmos, creation(s), creation(s) hymn, Creator, dance(s), decay, destroy, disintegration, earth, Eden, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian(s), endowment house, entropy, eternity, existence, experience, first law, force, future, garden of Eden, genealogy, geography, geometry, geopolitical, God, governments, Greeks, hierocentric, honor, house boat Life, ideological, imitation, infinite, infinite principle, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jewish temple, Jews, Joseph Smith, Judaism, Latter-day Saints, light, lightning, Manti, mathematics, matter unorganized, Muses, mysteries, Nauvoo Temple, observatory, order, ordinances, physics, planet, poema, poetry, priesthood, principles infinite, Provo Temple, records, resurrection, reversal, sacred circle, Satan, school, science, scientist(s), second law, stability, star(s), symmetry, telestial, temple(s), temple(s) Nauvoo, temple(s) Provo, templum, the Church, the Law, thermogyrasic, translation, universe, universities, upheavals, world(s), written word

18 pp., typed manuscript of a lecture given at Aspen Grove, Utah on September 1, 1973; CWHN 12:1-41.

Gifts

March 14, 1983 by • Adam, Akish, angel(s), apocryphal works writings, apostles, attributes, authority, Bible, Book of Mormon, Cain, character, church work, darkness, debate, defense, definitive answer, earth, economy, eternal life, farming, free, freemen, Gadianton(s), Gadianton(s) robbers, gain, garden, gifts, gifts of God, God, good and evil, handbook, Heavenly Scribe visitors, Helaman, Holy Ghost, honest heart, idol(s), independent, instruct, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., judges, King Benjamin, king-men, knowledge, Korihor, Lamanite(s), Lamech, Last Dispensation, lawyer(s), light, Living God, Living Lord, love, manna, Master Mahan, money, Moroni, murder(s), mysteries, Nephites, nobility, Old Testament, Pahoran, political science, post-war boom, praise, pride, prophecies, prosperity, prosperous nation, qualities, rank, reality, rejoicing, repent, resentment, resurrection, riches, ruin, sacred, Satan, scripture(s), security, snobs, spiritual, spiritual gifts, study, survival, teaching, temporal, text(s), the Gospel, The LORD, the Son of God, tools, vain things, vicious, violence, war, wealth, wisdom, written record(s), Zoramites

CWHN 9:84-117

Passing of the Primitive Church

January 2, 1967 by • adversary, apologists, apostasy, apostles, Apostolic Church, Apostolic Fathers, betrayal, Christian(s), Christianity, darkness, defeat, disciples, doctrine of Christ, Early Christians, eschatology, eschaton, failure, future, Gentiles, gnosis, gnostic, God, Great Assembly Gap, history, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John Chrysostom, martyr(s), martyrdom, message, mysteries, neglect, passing of the Church, Paul, perverters, prince of this world, reticence, scholar(s), social gospel, spiritual decline, survival, temple(s), the Church, the Church history, the critic(s), the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Kingdom, the Light, The LORD, the Primitive Church, the Prophets, the two ways

Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 84-85; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001), and later in BYU Studies 16:1 (Autumn 1975): 139-164; and CWHN 4:168-208. Nibley presents forty arguments for the apostasy in an examination of the expectation of early Christian writers of the fading of the Church. Professor Hans J. Hillerbrand …

The Book of Mormon: Forty Years After

May 11, 1966 by • Ammon (Book of Mormon prophet), Amulek, Cave of Letters, Creator, Gadianton(s), game, harlot, Helaman, Isabel, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith Jr., Kishkumen, Lachish Letters, Moroni, Mulekites, mysteries, New Education World, probation, riches, The LORD, The Terrible Questions, Waters of Sebus, Zarahemla, Zoramites

CWHN 8:533-567

How to Write an Anti-Mormon Book

February 17, 1962 by • alternative, Analiza Ann Eliza Young, Analiza Brigham Young, Analiza Young, Ann Eliza Young, anti-Mormon, argument, association, attack, bargain, Brigham Young, controversy, credentials, criminal charges, education, evidence, exploit, Fawn M. Brodie, folksy, geographical gap, homey, images, imposing appendix, intrigue, Irving Wallace, Joseph Smith, Mormon(s), Mormonism, mysteries, name-dropper, pictures, polemic, probabilities, purity, purity of motives, rhetoric, rules of advertising, scholar(s), schoolmen, sources, Stenhouse, thesis

Lecture II, February 17, 1962 in Seminar on the Prophet Joseph Smith (BYU Extension Publications, 1962): 30-41. This was reprinted (1964), pp. 31-42. Essentially a preview of Sounding Brass (1963). A long satirical list of informal rules commonly followed by those anxious to attack Mormon things. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for …

Columbus and Revelation

January 11, 1957 by • Christopher Columbus, mission, mysteries, West Indies

Instructor 88:10 (October 1953):319-320; CWHN 8: 49-53. Columbus seems to have believed that he was led to the Indies by divine revelation. — Midgley

Irenaeus

January 1, 1900 by • abstraction, apostles, Apostolic Fathers, argument, authority, baptism, Bible, bishop(s), blood, Christian(s), Christianity, counterfeit, diffusion, doctrine(s), Egypt, Eucharist, evil, false Christianity, false Christs, false doctrine, false prophets, Gentiles, gifts, gnosis, gnostic library, gnosticism, God, Ignatius, imitation, incomprehensible, Irenaeus, Jesus Christ, mysteries, pagan(s), paganism, philosophers, Pilot, prophecies, reabsorbed, resurrection, revelation(s), Rome, scripture(s), second century, Seventy, spirit (and matter), spiritual gifts, the Church, the Gospel, the Son of God, the Twelve, tradition(s), unction, writings

Revelation No Longer a Naughty Word

January 1, 1900 by • A. Bevan, A. N. Whitehead, A. Nygren, A. Standen, A. Vandan Born, A. W. Herre, Albright, B. M. B. Reardon, belief(s), C. Gordon, C. N. Cochrane, C. S. Lewis, Christian(s), Christianity, E. A. Hooton, E. G. Selwyn, E. Kraeling, F. A. M. Spencer, F. A. Vick, faith, Fred Hoyle, G. C. Berkouwer, G. W. Bromley, God, H. D. McDonald, H. Robbins, inspiration, J. R. W. Scott, J. T. Walvoord, Jesus, Karl R. Popper, literal, M. Burrows, man's origin & destiny, Mormonism, mysteries, New Education Testament, O. Cullmann, Old Testament, proof, R. Courant, religion, revelation(s), S. Freuds, S. McCasland, S. Mowinckel, science, scripture(s), the Gospel, the Son of God, W. C. Van Unnik, W. O. Fenn, W. Weaver

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