January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
ancient,
apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
Book of Mormon,
Books,
Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
Daybooks,
Demotic,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
eternity,
evolution,
evolutionary,
evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
heaven and earth,
heavenly book,
Heavenly Scribe,
Hebrew(s),
Hermetic,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
Holy books,
hostile,
house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
libraries,
memoranda books,
Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
picture writing,
power(s),
primordial book,
prophet(s),
proto-Elamitic,
proto-Indian,
records,
resurrection,
sacred book,
scripture(s),
Semitic,
Sent One(s),
Seshat,
Shabako stone,
synthesize,
the Book of the Foundation of Temples,
theories,
tools,
Torah,
uniformitarianism,
universe,
universities,
unknown,
view,
vizier of King Zoser,
writing miracle of,
written language,
written record(s)
(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …
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July 2, 1975 by •
baptism,
bishop(s),
center,
center drama,
Christian(s),
Christian(s) church,
Christianity,
corrupt,
creation(s) drama(s),
Cyril,
earth,
Egypt,
Elijah,
fourth century,
Gentile rites,
God,
heaven,
Holy Sepulcher,
interpretation,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish rites,
Jews,
Kaaba,
Mormon(s),
Moslem(s),
motif,
mythology,
Nimrod,
North Star,
of the earth,
Old Law,
ordinances,
Osiris,
pagan(s),
Patrologiae,
place of contact,
Plan of Salvation,
Primitive Church,
religious ritual,
rites,
Salt Lake Temple,
salvation,
sanctuary,
scholar(s),
secrecy,
symbolic,
synagogue,
Talmud,
Temple,
temple(s),
temple(s) rites,
the Church,
the Initiation,
three levels,
tradition(s),
universe,
usurper,
Year drama,
Ziggurat
Millennial Star 120:8 (August 1958):228-237, 247-249. Reprinted as What Is a Temple? The Idea of the Temple in History (1963 and 1968); and under the title “What is a Temple?” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. by Truman G. Madsen (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1984), 19-37; and in CWHN 4: …
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January 1, 1900 by •
absolute,
all-awareness,
all-awareness all-hearing,
Anaxagoras,
Antesthenes,
Appollonius,
Aristotle,
Boundless,
Daeman,
dialectical knowledge,
divine Mind,
elements,
Empedocles,
Epictelus,
Epicurus,
eternal,
Euclid,
evil,
Existing One,
God,
Heracleitus,
immortal,
impassible,
imperishable,
indivisible,
ineffable,
intangible,
intellect,
intelligence,
many gods,
Melissus,
Monad,
Nous,
oracles,
Parmendies,
Philo,
philosophy,
Plato,
Plotinus,
Plutarch,
primal God,
Protagoras,
Pythagoras,
Pythagoreans,
self-existent,
Socrates,
soul(s),
spirit (and matter),
Thales,
the mind,
The One,
universe,
unmoved
Thales (d. 546 B.C.): “Thales says that the God of the Universe (cosmos) is Mind (Nous), and that the Universe (to pan-“everything”) is alive and full of divine power (daemons); also that the basic element of water pervades all things through God’s divine animating power.” “And some say that Spirit is mixed in with everything; …
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