Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Part I A Prepared People
- Part II Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger
- Part III The Mormon Dispensation
- 7 Secret Combinations and Slippery Treasures in the Land of Zarahemla
- 8 The Mysteries Defined
- 9 Temples, Wives, Bogus-Making, and War
- 10 The Keys to the Kingdom
- 11 A Tangle of Strings and the Kingdom of God
- 12 Let Mysteries Alone
- Appendix The Sectarian and Hermetic Circumstances of Mormon Origins in Vermont and New York
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index
7 - Secret Combinations and Slippery Treasures in the Land of Zarahemla
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Part I A Prepared People
- Part II Hermetic Purity and Hermetic Danger
- Part III The Mormon Dispensation
- 7 Secret Combinations and Slippery Treasures in the Land of Zarahemla
- 8 The Mysteries Defined
- 9 Temples, Wives, Bogus-Making, and War
- 10 The Keys to the Kingdom
- 11 A Tangle of Strings and the Kingdom of God
- 12 Let Mysteries Alone
- Appendix The Sectarian and Hermetic Circumstances of Mormon Origins in Vermont and New York
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index
Summary
[A]nd Ammaron said unto me … when ye are about twenty and four years old … go to the land Antum, unto a hill which shall be called Shim; and there I have deposited unto the Lord all the sacred engravings concerning this people. And behold, ye shall take the plates of Nephi unto yourself, and the remainder shall ye leave in the place where they are; and ye shall engrave on the plates of Nephi all the things that ye have observed concerning this people. And I, Mormon, being a descendant of Nephi, (and my father's name was Mormon) I remembered the things which Ammaron commanded me. And it came to pass that I, being eleven years old, was carried by my father into the land southward, even to the land of Zarahemla.
The Book of MormonThe smiths' move to palmyra began in the summer of 1816, when Joseph Sr. departed on a trip west to Ontario County. Lucy and the family followed the next winter, but their journey was not made without yet more encounters with fraud and deceit. Having thought that she had cleared their debts in Norwich, Lucy was confronted by creditors whose books showed outstanding balances, and on the road through Utica their teamster attempted to steal their team of horses. Once in Palmyra the family set up a small “cake and beer shop” and began to make a living peddling pies, boiled eggs, gingerbread, root beer, and handpainted oilcloth table-coverings and by working as day laborers in gardens, shops, and farms in the vicinity of the growing town.
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- The Refiner's FireThe Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, pp. 149 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994