The refiner's fire : the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844 /

The refiner's fire : the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844 /

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This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with magical ideas about recovering the div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooke, John L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Mormon cosmology > History of doctrines > 19th century.
Occultism > Religious aspects > Mormon Church > History of doctrines > 19th century.
Mormon Church > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I.A prepared people. Dreams of the primal Adam
  • The true spiritual seed
  • Something of our ancestors
  • Part II. Hermetic purity and hermetic danger. A Urim spiritual
  • Alchymical experiments
  • I was born in Sharon
  • Part III. The Mormon dispensation. Secret combinations and slippery treasures in the land of Zarahemla
  • The mysteries defined
  • Temples, wives, bogus-making, and war
  • The keys to the kingdom
  • A tangle of strings and the kingdom of God
  • Let mysteries alone.

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