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==Brown: "when he first obtained his personal seerstone he placed it in his hat, and discovered that time, place, and distance were annihilated"==
Matthew Brown:
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Joseph Smith reportedly said in 1826, while under examination in a court of law, that when he first obtained his personal seerstone he placed it in his hat, and discovered that time, place, and distance were annihilated; that all intervening obstacles were removed, and that he possessed one of the attributes of Deity, an All-Seeing Eye.<ref>Matthew B. Brown, ''Plates of Gold'' (American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2003), 167.</ref>
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