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Category:First Vision/Personages who appeared
Personages who appeared during the First Vision
Parent page: First Vision
Joseph Smith (1832): "and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me"
Joseph Smith recorded the following in his own handwriting:
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firelight above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above and rested upon me and I was filled with the spirit of god and the Lord opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me saying Joseph my son thy sins are forgiven thee. go thy way walk in my statutes and keep my commandments behold I am the Lord of glory I was crucifyed for the world that all those who believe on my name may have Eternal life [1]
Joseph Smith (1843): "The Lord...revealed himself to me first when I was about fourteen years old...a glorious personage in the light, and then another personage"
The Lord does reveal himself to me. I know it. He revealed himself to me first when I was about fourteen years old, a mere boy....Directly I saw a light, and then a glorious personage in the light, and then another personage, and the first personage said to the second, “Behold my beloved Son, hear him.” I then, addressed this second person, saying, “O Lord, what Church shall I join.” He replied, “don’t join any of them, they are all corrupt.” The vision then vanished. [2]
Notes
- ↑ Joseph Smith Letterbook 1, pp. 1-6. This electronic text was copied from Wikisource. The editor notes that insertions are indicated like this and deletions are indicated like
this. Text in blue is in Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams. "History, circa Summer 1832," 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/Personages who appeared"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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- Source:Charles Lowell Walker:Diary of Charles Lowell Walker:God touched his eyes with his finger
- Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:I saw the Lord
- Source:Joseph Smith:Interview, JS by David Nye White:1843:The Lord does reveal himself to me
- Source:Joseph Smith:Joseph's journal entry of 9 November 1835:Personages who appeared