Emma Smith

There was stuff kept

from Emma Smith at certain cases she did know about, this practice going on.

But anyway, it's not so clean.

This is one of those kind of messy parts of our church history.

The standard church art always depicts Joseph sitting at a desk, studying the plates like a diligent scholar, using magical spectacles called the Urim and Thummim.

But the actual eyewitness accounts from the people in the room, such as David Whitmer and Emma Smith, describe a completely different methodology.

Whitmer stated that Joseph would place a small, dark seer stone into the bottom of his hat.

Hat.

And these were not just abstract numbers.

These were real individuals, other selves, like Nancy Hyde and Patty Sessions.

And this practice caused immense, agonizing, documented psychological torture for his first wife, Emma Smith.

Applying the STO-STS diagnostic, does the accumulation of this level of sexual, emotional, and spiritual power expand the freedom and sovereignty of the other self, or does it make the other self an instrument of the leader's will?

The standard church art always depicts Joseph sitting at a desk, studying the plates like a diligent scholar, using magical spectacles called the Urim and Thummim.

But the actual eyewitness accounts from the people in the room, such as David Whitmer and Emma Smith, describe a completely different methodology.

Whitmer stated that Joseph would place a small, dark seer stone into the bottom of his hat.

He would then draw his face closely into the hat to completely exclude the ambient light.

And these were not just abstract numbers.

These were real individuals, other selves, like Nancy Hyde and Patty Sessions.

And this practice caused immense, agonizing, documented psychological torture for his first wife, Emma Smith.

Applying the STO-STS diagnostic, does the accumulation of this level of sexual, emotional, and spiritual power expand the freedom and sovereignty of the other self? or does it make the other self an instrument of the leader's will?

interpreters,

right? So they're asking, why is there a curtain? Well, it's obvious he was trying to not have whoever the scribe was, Martin Harris or Emma at the time.

of the 116 pages see it.

But at some point he shifted to the hat, right? I'm kind of proposing, one of the elements I'm proposing is that maybe one of the, he was familiar with the hat in terms of its prior use of seer stone and all that, but in the Fayette Lapham discussion, which was Joseph Smith's senior interview, a lot of which was from the 116 pages, it's clear, is it talks about that they found the interpreter's stones, and Don Bradley has mentioned this, and they used skins, put them, and put them up to their face so he could use them.

And then Joseph couldn't see anything.

So it's as dark as Egypt.

So we have an indication that there is an Emma said.

that he didn't use the brown seer stone in the beginning part.

The earliest manuscripts of the Bible translation, beginning with Genesis 1, now Moses 2, were created in Harmony, Pennsylvania about one month later, with Oliver Cowdery and John Whitmer acting as scribes.

Shortly thereafter, in a revelation addressed to Joseph's wife, Emma Hale-Smith, the Lord instructed that Emma serve as Joseph's scribe for the translation, which she apparently did for a brief time.

Over the next few months, the translation progressed through the book of Genesis.

Yes.

But if anyone's willing to do that research or can point me to other ones, I'd love to see them.

This one, this chiasm that it was, and other people have noticed this as well, and this is one of the reasons why I want to discuss this one.

This is from his letter to Emma that he wrote November 4th in 1838.

Nima, what?