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Category:First Vision/Name of theophany
By what names was the event known as the "First Vision" originally called
Parent page: First Vision
Joseph Smith (1832): " [I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision "
Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.
[I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision [1]
Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication"
Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):
he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the son of God; <and I saw many angels in this vision> I was about 14. years old when I received this first communication; When I was about 17 years old I saw another vision of angels, in the night season after I had retired to bed[2]
Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old"
Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):
up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old and also the the visitations that I received afterward, concerning the book of Mormon[3]
Joseph Smith (1838): "I had seen a vision"
I had seen a vision, I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it[4]
Joseph Smith (1842): "I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision"
I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages[5]
Orson Pratt (1840): "Some time after having received this glorious manifestation"
Orson Pratt:
Some time after having received this glorious manifestation, being young, he was again entangled in the vanities of the world, of which he afterwards sincerely and truly repented. [6]
Source:Orson Pratt:A Cry out of the Wilderness:These heavenly revelations
Joseph Smith (1843): "The vision then vanished...I went home and told the people that I had a revelation"
The vision then vanished, and when I come to my self, I was sprawling on my back; and it was sometime before my strength returned. When I went home and told the people that I had a revelation[7]
Notes
- ↑ "History, circa Summer 1832," The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "History, circa June 1839–circa 1841 [Draft 2,"] The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "“Church History,” 1 March 1842," The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "Appendix: Orson Pratt, A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840," The Joseph Smith Papers.
- ↑ "Interview, 21 August 1843, extract," Interview, JS by David Nye White, Nauvoo, IL, 21 Aug. 1843; in David Nye White, “The Prairies, Nauvoo, Joe Smith, the Temple, the Mormons, &c.” Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 15 Sept. 1843, p. [3]; photocopy at CHL. The Joseph Smith Papers.
Pages in category "First Vision/Name of theophany"
The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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- Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:the hevnly vision
- Source:Joseph Smith:1835 Journal:First communication
- Source:Joseph Smith:1835 Journal:The First Visitation of Angels
- Source:Joseph Smith:1838 History:I had seen a vision
- Source:Joseph Smith:1842 History:I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision
- Source:Joseph Smith:Interview, JS by David Nye White:1843:The vision then vanished
- Source:Orson Hyde:A Cry out of the Wilderness:Angel of the Lord
- Source:Orson Hyde:A Cry out of the Wilderness:These heavenly revelations
- Source:Orson Pratt:A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions:First Vision