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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.

Work We Must, but the Lunch is Free

April 21, 1986 by • Abraham, Adam, Analiza Brigham Young, astronomy, beggar, biological system, biology, bounty, Brigham Young, children, Darwin, dependence, earth, earthly possessions, equality, evolution, free gift, free lunch, gift, God, God's gifts, humanity, idler, Israel, Jehovah, King Benjamin, King(s) Benjamin, kingdom(s) of God, knowledge, labor, life, lunch, lunches, lunching, mammon, manna, materialism, money, Mosaic Law, Moses, need, peaceably, private property, probation, Promised Land, random, righteousness, science, sin, spiritual gifts, survival, temporal gifts, tests, the Law, The LORD, the world

CWHN 9:202-251

Archaeology and Our Religion

January 19, 1986 by • Adam, ancient civilization, archaeological excavation, archaeologist(s), archaeology, Bible, Chaldean(s), Charles Darwin, China, controversy, disbelief(s), Egyptian(s), evidence, evolutionary theory, God, history, Hittite(s), imagination, impressions, interpretation, investigators, Jericho, language(s), naive science, Near East, New Education Uniformity, opinion(s), Patriarchs, prehistory, prophet(s), religion, scholarship, science, scientific method, scripture(s), speculation, theories, unbelief, uncertainty, Victorians

9 pp. typed paper, 1965; Seventh East Press (January 18, 1982): 4-7, 12; and CWHN 1: 21-36. This is the manuscript of an essay submitted to the Instructor, and rejected, and circulated with two letters, both dated September 16, 1965, one addressed to “Dear Brother,” 1 p., and the other addressed to “Mr. W,” 5 …

Science Fiction and the Gospel

February 13, 1969 by • Abraham, Adam, angel(s), animals, anthropologist, Apocalypse of Abraham, apostles, behavior, Christian(s) writings, computers, evil One, fiction, gadgets, God, good, intelligence, light, machine, man, mind, moral(s), religion, righteous the, robot, science, science fiction, scientist(s), Sophists, the Gospel, The LORD

22 pp. s.s., typed transcript of a talk given February 13, 1969; published, with some changes, in LDSF 2: Latter-day Science Fiction, ed. by Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985): 5-28; CWHN 12:491-531 Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU …

Intre-Ancient Records

November 11, 1965 by • anthropologist, Aristotle, belief(s), Book of Mormon, Carl Popper, Charles Darwin, empirical, evidence, evolution, fact(s), God, Handsome Lake, hypothesis, hypothetical, imagination, induction, inspiration, interpretation, investigations, Iroquois, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, judgment(s), mistakes, observation, opinion(s), Paanchi, probabilities, records, revelation(s), scholar(s), science, scientific, scientist(s), spirit (and matter), test, testimony, The LORD, theories, truth

(See “Fact and Fancy in the Interpretation of Ancient Records”)

Plato’s Athens

January 1, 1900 by • Aristophanes, Athens, Babylonian(s), belief(s), disbelief(s), dream(s), God, Hell-fire Clubs, Homer, hyperphanos, Iliad, inspiration, intellectuals, moral(s), oracle, oracles, Pericles, philosophy, Plato, Protagoras, religion, revelation(s), science, Socrates, Sophists, teachers, worldly wisdom, Zeus

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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