Episode 04 – Slide 105

Footnote“Gold Bible, No. 5.” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 14 (28 February 1831): 109. GOLD BIBLE, NO. 5. “There remains but little doubt, in the minds of those at all acquainted with these transactions, that Walters, who was sometimes called the conjurer,...

Episode 04 – Slide 104

FootnoteComplete quote: “Walters, the better to carry on his own deception with those ignorant & deluded people who employed him, had procured an old copy of Cicero’s Orations, in the latin language, out of which he read long and loud to his credulous hearers,...

Episode 04 – Slide 103

Footnotehttp://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/images/human25.jpg Cicero’s Orations in Latin Copied by the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini while on leave from the Council of...

Episode 04 – Slide 101

FootnoteD. Michael Quinn. 1998. “Early Mormonism and the Magic World View”. Signature Books.

Episode 04 – Slide 100

FootnoteJames Giddings, the deputy sheriff of Boscawen, New Hampshire, issued a reward for Walter’s arrest: “Transient person,calling himself Laman Walter, [who] has for several days past been imposing himself upon the credulity of the people in this vicinity by a...