FootnoteFull quote: “…Joseph had a little ambition, and some very laudable aspirations; the mother’s intellect occasionally shone out in him feebly, especially when he used to help us to solve some portentous questions of moral or political ethics, in our juvenile...
FootnoteWilliam Smith wrote of his brother: “That he [Joseph] was illitterate to some extent is admitted but that he was enterly unlettered is a mistake. In Sintax, authography, Mathamatics, grammar, geography with other studies in the Common Schools of his day he was...
FootnoteWilliam Smith said of his own education: “During this period, I enjoyed in common with other boys of my age and circumstances, but limited opportunities for acquiring an education; and being like most youths, more fond of play than study, I made but little use...
FootnoteMicahel Quinn: “While the Smith family’s belief in astrology can be demonstrated only circumstantially and inferentially, the Smiths left direct evidence of their practice of ritual magic. In addition to the magic dagger, among Hyrum Smith’s possessions at his...
FootnoteSibly’s New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences… Sibly describes Pah-li-Pah as “one of the celestial powers”. Pah-li-Pah is the second of seven angels of ceremonial magic. The reverse side of the “Saint Peter Bind Them” parchment has a complex...
FootnoteThe Smiths’ source for Jubanladace is Scot’s Discourse Concerning Devils and Spirits (Quinn, p. 110; Scot, p. 43). The central disk of the “Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah” parchment has four Maltese crosses and a Latin phrase as suggested by Reginald Scot (Scot,...
