THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM
TRANSLATED FROM THE PAPYRUS, BY JOSEPH SMITH
HC 2:236 claims they are the writings of Abraham & Joseph.
TRANSLATED FROM THE PAPYRUS, BY JOSEPH SMITH
HC 2:236 claims they are the writings of Abraham & Joseph.
http://scriptures.lds.org/abr/fac_2
Fig. 7. Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove.
Fig. 7. Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as, also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove.
See God sitting on his throne below
(The LDS Church removed the Phallic symbol in "gods" lap above, but it is restored in current editions)
Mormon Egyptologist Michael Dennis Rhodes provided a translation of parts
of this facsimile in BYU Studies, Spring 1977, page 265. His translation of the edge of the hypocephalus is as follows: I am Djabty in the House of the Benben in Heliopolis, so exalted and glorious. [I am] a copulating bull without equal. [I am] that Mighty God in the House of the Benben in Heliopolis . . . that Mighty God . . .
of this facsimile in BYU Studies, Spring 1977, page 265. His translation of the edge of the hypocephalus is as follows: I am Djabty in the House of the Benben in Heliopolis, so exalted and glorious. [I am] a copulating bull without equal. [I am] that Mighty God in the House of the Benben in Heliopolis . . . that Mighty God . . .
Egyptologists (Mormon and non-Mormon alike) tell us that the deity seen in figure 7 is in reality the god Min. Min is an ithyphallic deity, that is, a sexually aroused male deity, as the picture clearly indicates. Min is the god of the procreative forces of nature. The sexually explicit nature of this god has caused embarrassment to Mormon leaders. While the original printing of this hypocephalus appears just as the modern version (Joseph Smith oversaw the restoration of the hypocephalus, which had been damaged, and the preparation of its printing in the Times and Seasons of March 15, 1842, as you can see in the Documentary History of the Church, Volume 4, pages 519 and 543),
LDS scholar Dr. Hugh Nibley, "As the supreme sex symbol of gods and men, Min behaves with shocking promiscuity, which is hardly relieved by its ritual nature . . . His sacred plants are aphrodisiacal . . . and he is everywhere represented as indulging in incestuous relationships with those of his immediate family; he had the most numerous and varied entourage of all the gods, consisting mostly of his huge harem . . . The hymns, or rather chanting, of his worshippers were accompanied with lewd dancing and carousing . . . to the exciting stimulus of a band of sistrem-shaking damsels." (Abraham in Egypt, p. 210)
Mormon Egyptologist Michael Dennis Rhodes,"Joseph Smith mentions here the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove and God "revealing through the heavens the grand key-words of the priesthood." The procreative forces, receiving unusual accentuation throughout the representation, may stand for many divine generative powers, not least of which might be conjoined with the blessings of the Priesthood in one's posterity eternally." (BYU Studies, Spring 1977, p. 273)
The youngest girl whom Smith "married" and copulated was fourteen-year-old Helen Mar Kimball (Ibid., p. 487). As with most of the other women, Smith hid his adultery with her from Emma.
Lavina Fielding Anderson, editor of the Journal of Mormon History, wrote, "I was shocked and disgusted to discover that Joseph Smith married a fourteen-year-old girl, fully consummated that marriage, and concealed it from Emma. My image of "prophet" did not accommodate this kind of behavior. I could not begin to find holy motives for such behavior" ("The Garden God Hath Planted: Explorations Toward a Maturing Faith," Sunstone, October 1990, pp. 26-27).
"Joseph was very free in his talk about his women. He told me one day of a certain girl and remarked, that she had given him more pleasure than any girl he had ever enjoyed. I told him it was horrible to talk like this" ("Interview with William Law. March 30, 1887," Daily Tribune: Salt Lake City, July 31, 1887).
Richard C. Evans book Forty Years in the Mormon Church-Why I Left It!
(Toronto, Canada, 1920):
Dr. McIntyre, family physician of the Smiths in Manchester, N. Y., declared that the house of Joseph Smith, Sen., was a perfect brothel.
Eza Pierce, Samantha Payne and other school-mates of the Smiths testify that Smith was lewd, and so were the family. Levi Lewis testifies that while Smith was pretending to translate the plates, he tried to seduce Eliza Winters, declaring that adultery was no sin. Eli Johnson led a mob against Smith for being intimate with his sister, Marinda, who afterwards married Orson Hyde. Brigham Young twitted Hyde with this fact, and Hyde put away his wife. Fanny Brewer testifies that Smith had serious trouble in Kirtland arising from his seducing an orphan girl. Mr. Moreton told his daughter and her husband that Emma Smith detected Joseph in adultery with a girl by the name of Knight, and that Joseph confessed the crime to the officers of the church. Sidney Rigdon wrote:"The leaders of the church were monsters in human form; that Joseph was cut off for his transgression, that Joseph Smith departed from the living God, and like David and Solomon he contracted a whoring spirit and that the Lord smote him off from the earth" (Evans, p. 91).
(Toronto, Canada, 1920):
Dr. McIntyre, family physician of the Smiths in Manchester, N. Y., declared that the house of Joseph Smith, Sen., was a perfect brothel.
Eza Pierce, Samantha Payne and other school-mates of the Smiths testify that Smith was lewd, and so were the family. Levi Lewis testifies that while Smith was pretending to translate the plates, he tried to seduce Eliza Winters, declaring that adultery was no sin. Eli Johnson led a mob against Smith for being intimate with his sister, Marinda, who afterwards married Orson Hyde. Brigham Young twitted Hyde with this fact, and Hyde put away his wife. Fanny Brewer testifies that Smith had serious trouble in Kirtland arising from his seducing an orphan girl. Mr. Moreton told his daughter and her husband that Emma Smith detected Joseph in adultery with a girl by the name of Knight, and that Joseph confessed the crime to the officers of the church. Sidney Rigdon wrote:"The leaders of the church were monsters in human form; that Joseph was cut off for his transgression, that Joseph Smith departed from the living God, and like David and Solomon he contracted a whoring spirit and that the Lord smote him off from the earth" (Evans, p. 91).
"A common misconception concerning Joseph Smith's polyandry is that he participated in only one or two such unusual unions. In fact, fully one-third of his plural wives, eleven of them, were married civilly to other men when he married them. If one superimposes a chronological perspective, one sees that of Smith's first twelve wives, nine were
polyandrous (Compton, pp. 15-16).
polyandrous (Compton, pp. 15-16).
"Joseph said I was his before I came here and he said all the Devils in Hell should never get me from him. I was sealed to him in the Masonic Hall, over the old brick store by Brigham Young in February 1842 and then again in the Nauvoo Temple by Heber C. Kimball. . . ." (Affidavit of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, as quoted in No Man Knows My History, p. 444).
"Emily Partridge Young said she 'roomed' with Joseph the night following her marriage to him, and said that she had 'carnal intercourse' with him."
"Other early witnesses also affirmed this. Benjamin Johnson wrote: 'On the 15th of May . . . the Prophet again Came and at my hosue [house] ocupied [sic] the Same Room & Bed with my sister that the month previous he had ocupied with the Daughter of the Later [late?] Bishop Partridge as his wife.' According to Joseph Bates Noble, Smith told him he had spent a night with Louisa Beaman . . . many of Joseph's wives affirmed that they were married to him for eternity and time, with sexuality included." (Compton, pp. 12-14)
"Other early witnesses also affirmed this. Benjamin Johnson wrote: 'On the 15th of May . . . the Prophet again Came and at my hosue [house] ocupied [sic] the Same Room & Bed with my sister that the month previous he had ocupied with the Daughter of the Later [late?] Bishop Partridge as his wife.' According to Joseph Bates Noble, Smith told him he had spent a night with Louisa Beaman . . . many of Joseph's wives affirmed that they were married to him for eternity and time, with sexuality included." (Compton, pp. 12-14)
Helen Mar Kimball Whitney,"He [Joe Smith] said: "Let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven out of it. Where this people are, there is good society. What do we care where we are, if the society be good?" (Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Autobiography, c. 1839-1846).
Austin Cowles, a former First Counselor to the LDS Church, and William Law, a former Second Counselor wrote ". . . but our petitions were treated with contempt; and in many cases the petitioner spurned from their presence, and particularly by Joseph, who would state that if he had sinned, and was guilty of the charges we would charge him with, he would not make acknowledgment, but would rather be damned; for it would detract from his dignity, and would consequently ruin and prove the overthrow of the Church. We would ask him on the other hand, if the overthrow of the Church was that inevitable, to which he often replied that we would all go to Hell together and convert it into a heaven, by casting the Devil out; and says he, Hell is by no means the place this world of fools suppose it to be, but on the contrary, it is quite an agreeable place." (Nauvoo Expositor vol. 1, No. 1, Nauvoo, IL, June 7, 1844)
Charles Perry Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you know that the obelisk is a Masonic symbol taken from ancient egypt?
At the base of the Washing Monument is a placard that says it was dedicated
in a Masonic ceremony. Did you also know Joseph Smith was a Mason? Did you
also know that there is such a monument to Joseph Smith in New York, where
the supposed Hill Cumorah lies? Here is a link to a photo of the JS monument
and a description of the origin and meaning of the obelisk. For a guy that
had many wives, maybe the symbolism is appropriate.
http://www.freedomintruthoutreach.com/obelisk.shtml.
Very interesting stuff indeed.
Perry
"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org
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