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	American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
		Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr.
		Joseph married Emma Hale on January 18, 1827, and was described as a loving and devoted husband.
		Joseph was persecuted much of his adult life and was killed along with his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.
	www.pbs.org /americanprophet/joseph-smith.html (362 words)

	LDS FAQ: Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
		Joseph, as he was tasting the cold water, warned the brethren not to be too free with it.
		One of the outstanding evidences bearing witness that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery spoke the truth, when they declared that Elijah had come to them and conferred upon them his priesthood, is the fact that since that time the hearts of the children have in a miraculous way turned towards their fathers.
		Joseph never claimed to be infallible, and no prophet is. He may have been surprised and frustrated by the delayed fulfillment of some prophecies, such as the establishment of Zion in Missouri, which has yet to come.
	www.jefflindsay.com /LDSFAQ/FQ_prophecies.shtml (12957 words)

	Joseph Smith - MormonWiki
		Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith.
		The Smiths moved several times in less than twenty years, but almost all of Joseph's later childhood was spent near Palmyra, New York, in an area that was called the "burned-over district" for its frequent and fervent religious excitement.
		Joseph Smith was succeeded as President of the Church by Brigham Young.
	www.mormonwiki.com /mormonism/Joseph_Smith (718 words)

	Joseph Smith Jr. - Prophet of God
		Joseph Smith's role in history was to found the Church of Jesus Christ based on this restored gospel in preparation for the second coming of Christ.
		Joseph Smith also made efforts to realize his vision of Zion during the seven years that the Latter-day Saints were in Ohio.
		Joseph Smith arrived with his family at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, in March 1838, where he sought once again to establish a gathering place for the Saints and to build a temple (see Missouri: LDS Communities in Caldwell and Daviess Counties).
	www.familyforever.com /temples/prophets/jsmith.htm (2496 words)

	Joseph Smith Biography
		Young Joseph Smith took a deep interest in the diviner's skills and spent as much time as he could in the magician's company, trying to master the man's divining abilities.
		Joseph agreed to accompany the visitor east, and to help him locate the treasure, provided that Joseph was paid three dollars a day, the same fee the diviner had charged.
		Despite Joseph's surrender, he was charged with treason for appearing in Missouri in command of an armed force, and was also charged with plotting the murder of a Missouri gentile killed in a skirmish with Mormons.
	lds-mormon.com /jsmith.shtml (4193 words)

	Joseph Smith: America's Hermetic Prophet
		The God of Joseph Smith is a daring revival of the God of some of the Kabbalists and Gnostics, prophetic sages who, like Smith himself, asserted that they had returned to the true religion....Mormonism is a purely American Gnosis, for which Joseph Smith was and is a far more crucial figure than Jesus could be.
		Joseph Smith is taking on a new visage, and words like "gnostic", "kabbalistic" and "hermetic" have suddenly gained a quite prominent place in the vocabulary employed by those trying to understand him.
		Joseph Smith's and his religion's interactions with the Masonic tradition are fully documented in Michael W. Homer, "'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry': The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27 (Fall 1994): 1-113.
	www.gnosis.org /ahp.htm (5305 words)

	Joseph Smith, Prophet
		Joseph Smith, Jr., often referred to as the Prophet Joseph Smith, was the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		The revelations to Joseph Smith are clear, direct, and unequivocal, yet his teachings are difficult to characterize or summarize, since they do not fit easily into traditional theological categories, and they always presuppose that more can, and probably will, be revealed by God.
		Joseph Smith believed that his enemies perverted legal processes, using them as tools of religious persecution against him, as they had been used against many of Christ's apostles and other past martyrs.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/people/joseph_smith (662 words)

	JosephSmith.com - Joseph Smith American Prophet, Biography
		Joseph Smith said of the event, "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men.
		Joseph Smith ran toward the window where he was shot in the back from inside the jail and shot in the chest from outside the jail.
		To this day, Joseph Smith is remembered by Mormons as the first prophet of the Restoration, accomplishing tasks that established the Lord's true Church again to the earth.
	www.josephsmith.com (2990 words)

	Joseph Smith as a Prophet
		Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri.
		Joseph Smith prophesies to the members of Zion's Camp that "within three years they should march to Jackson County and there should not be a dog to open his mouth against them." Reed Peck Manuscript p.
		Joseph Smith never lived in it; his widow Emma was living in it at her death, but his family have not owned or occupied it since then.
	www.exmormon.org /prophet.htm (6065 words)

	Joseph Smith: America's Hermetic Prophet
		The God of Joseph Smith is a daring revival of the God of some of the Kabbalists and Gnostics, prophetic sages who, like Smith himself, asserted that they had returned to the true religion....Mormonism is a purely American Gnosis, for which Joseph Smith was and is a far more crucial figure than Jesus could be.
		Joseph Smith is taking on a new visage, and words like "gnostic", "kabbalistic" and "hermetic" have suddenly gained a quite prominent place in the vocabulary employed by those trying to understand him.
		Joseph Smith's and his religion's interactions with the Masonic tradition are fully documented in Michael W. Homer, "'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry': The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27 (Fall 1994): 1-113.
	gnosis.org /ahp.htm (5305 words)

	Who is Joseph Smith?
		Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon prophet, is among the most fascinating, yet controversial figures in America's religious history.
		This lowered Smith's habeas corpus shield and made him liable for trial in courts outside Nauvoo, prompting state authorities to take him into custody—a process that concluded in late June 1844 when authorities arrested Smith and escorted him to jail in Carthage, Illinois, to stand trial.
		Joseph Smith's widow, Emma Hale, and members of the family rejected the bold steps of one of Smith's associates, Brigham Young, who as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles entered the leadership vacuum created by the prophet's death.
	www.signaturebookslibrary.org /essays/josephsmith.htm (2269 words)

	Joseph Smith at lds-mormon.com
		One of the keys to understanding the early Mormon doctrine Joseph Smith created is to comprehend the motivations and personalities of his closest associates.
		In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
		Read the original versions of Joseph Smith's revelations as well as a narrative that provides the setting and additional information to obtain the original intent and background.
	www.lds-mormon.com /joseph_smith.shtml (321 words)

	Joseph Smith and Kabbalah: The Occult Connection
		The imaginative revisioning of Joseph Smith's "unusual approach" to life and religion, demands a careful--though perhaps still difficult and destructive--hewing away of an hundred years of encrusting vilifications and thick layerings of iconographic pigments, masks ultimately false to his lively cast.
		The God of Joseph Smith is a daring revival of the God of some of the Kabbalists and Gnostics, prophetic sages who, like Smith himself, asserted that they had returned to the true religion.
		Smith's concepts of God's plurality, his vision of God as anthropos, and his possession by the issue of sacred marriage, all might have been cross-fertilized by this intercourse with Kabbalistic theosophy--an occult relationship climaxing in Nauvoo.
	www.gnosis.org /jskabb1.htm (4986 words)

	Joseph Smith's Death
		Joseph Smith, John Taylor and Dr. Richards sprang to the left of the door, and tried to knock aside the guns of the ruffians.
		Joseph and Hyrum, however, were rearrested, and, says Ford, were charged with overt treason, having ordered out the legion to resist the posse comitatus, though, as he states, the degree of their crime would depend on circumstances.
		Joseph dropped his pistol, and sprang into the window; but just as he was preparing to descend, he saw such an array of bayonets below, that he caught by the window casing, where he bung by his hands and feet, with his head to the north, feet to the south, and his body swinging downward.
	www.utlm.org /onlineresources/josephsmithsdeath.htm (8302 words)

	Joseph Smith: Prophet, Revelator, Human; Interview with Richard Lyman Bushman -- Beliefnet.com
		Among the events marking the anniversary was the publication of a new scholarly biography, "Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling," by Richard Lyman Bushman, a professor emeritus at Columbia University and a practicing Mormon.
		I was drawn to them because I think they capture the incongruity of his inadequate preparation for any kind of leadership role and the rough style of personality and method that continue to the end of his life.
		A Mormon convert on what Joseph Smith means to her.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/181/story_18153_1.html (911 words)

	The Prophet Joseph Smith
		Joseph Smith—as prophet, teacher, and beloved leader of the Saints—was the prophet of the Restoration.
		The Prophet Joseph Smith is one of the most charismatic and influential religious figures in American history.
		The testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith about the savior Jesus Christ and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints needs to be considered seriously and prayerfully by all who want to qualify to receive a testimony of the truth directly from God.
	www.prophetjosephsmith.org (308 words)

	Fla. v. Joseph Smith: The Carlie Brucia case - Full Trial Coverage on CourtTVnews.com
		Less than a week after a judge handed Joseph Smith a death sentence for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, the slain girl's mother was sentenced to serve time behind bars.
		Florida auto mechanic Joseph Smith was sentenced to death on March 15, 2006, for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, whose kidnapping was captured on a car wash security camera system and broadcast around the world.
		Mechanic Joseph Smith was found guilty of raping, kidnapping and murdering Carlie Brucia, 11, who was last seen on a surveillance video with her abductor.
	www.courttv.com /trials/brucia (235 words)

	Interesting Quotes from Joseph Smith
		Joseph Smith boasted that he did more than Jesus to keep a church together.
		Joseph Smith said mothers have babies in eternity and some are on thrones.
		Joseph Smith said that there are men living on the moon who dress like Quakers and live to be nearly 1000 years old.
	www.carm.org /lds/quotes_js.htm (517 words)

	Joseph Smith Translation
		The Lord inspired the Prophet Joseph Smith to restore truths to the Bible text that had become lost or changed since the original words were written.
		Because the Lord revealed to Joseph certain truths that the original authors had once recorded, the Joseph Smith Translation is unlike any other Bible translation in the world.
		Joseph’s seed will be the leaders in the gathering of Israel in the latter days.
	scriptures.lds.org /en/jst/contents (1406 words)

	Joseph Smith Memorial Building \| Utah.com
		One of the most luxurious reception and business centers in the American West, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building is located in the very heart of the historical center of Salt Lake City, directly west of the Salt Lake Temple.
		This genealogical research area is well-suited to those with an interest in their family history but without a lot of research experience (Advanced genealogy researchers should consider visiting the Family History Library for a wider range of research tools.).
		The film currently shown in the theater is called Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, and traces the life and teachings of Joseph Smith, who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 in New York and was killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois in 1844.
	www.utah.com /mormon/joseph_smith_memorial.htm (821 words)

	YouTube - Joseph Smith, Farm Boy
		Joseph Smith a farm boy from upstate New York started the LDS Church with 6 members.
		Joseph Smith saw what he saw, and he through God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ brought back Christ true gospel that was lost through the apostacy.
		Joseph Smith says he did it by the gift and power of God, through the use of the Urim and Thummim.
	www.youtube.com /?v=upxdvSTLRXI (845 words)

	Joseph Smith - Joseph Smith Links
		Brief summaries of some of the teachings of Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		Fifteen classic BYU Devotionals about the Prophet Joseph Smith given between 1955 and 2005.
		A chronology organized by day and year of the significant events that occurred in Joseph Smith's life.
	www.josephsmith.net /portal/site/JosephSmith/menuitem.7abc717dd4f228e85a8aa1a4f1e543a0/?vgnextoid=b6a8986277e82010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRD&locale=0 (280 words)

	Joseph Smith and the Mormon Church - Life After Ministries for Mormons
		Born to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr.
		On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president and High Priest of the Melchizedek.
		Smith was a controversial figure in American history because of his bizarre and unbiblical interpretations such as polygamy— and was as much beloved by his followers as he was hated by his detractors.
	www.lifeafter.org /jsmith.asp (1826 words)

	Excerpts - Joseph Smith: The First Mormon
		Reports that young Joseph had been a "money-digger" with the aid of a "peep stone" (common parlance for any stone used like a fortuneteller's crystal to hunt for buried treasure) and that he had been brought to trial for such activity have long been in dispute.
		After Joseph became known as a prophet, stories about his money-digging proliferated, and as early as 1830 were used to try to discredit him and his new church.
		Joseph Knight furnished him with a horse and cutter so that he could visit Emma, and the well-to-do farmer Martin Harris, for whom Joseph had worked as a boy, bought Joseph a new suit of clothes to help him make a good impression before her and her father.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/first.htm (4382 words)

	Joseph Smith Page - Magical seer stones and secret polygamy
		New Light on Joseph Smith's First Vision — This carefully documented article summarizes evidence uncovered by Mormon historians and others that there was no revival in 1820 in the Manchester/Palmyra, New York area, as related in the official First Vision account.
		The Freemasonry/Occultism Connection — The evidence of Joseph Smith's close connection to occultism and Freemasonry, and how this influenced the origin and development of the Mormon Church is not well known outside of scholarly circles.
		Joseph Smith's UNCENSORED Diaries — Joseph's teaching regarding women and the priesthood, the Word of Wisdom, celestial marriage and other matters — without the "faith-promoting" veneer.
	www.irr.org /mit/jspage.html (207 words)

	Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon
		Depending on the source, Joseph Smith, the founder and First Prophet of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was a divinely-inspired spiritual leader whose recurring revelations and supernatural experiences legitimated his claim to power, a charlatan of incredible pursuasive abilities, or possibly even a brilliant paranoid schizophrenic.
		Joseph Smith was born 1805 in Sharon, Vermont.
		Smith attempted to retrieve the golden plates from the hill in New York; he could not, however, for another three years.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Mormons/smith.html (1244 words)

	About Joseph Smith
		In the present infidel, irreligious, material, ideal, geological, animal-magnetic age of the world, some such singular prophet as Joseph Smith is required to preserve the principle of faith, and to plant some new germs of civilization that may come to maturity in a thousand years.
		This is the key to understanding Joseph Smith and to understanding Mormonism, I am convinced: It is the literalness, the experiencing the same things that are described in the scriptures.
		Now, if you get that understanding of Joseph Smith's understanding of what was going on, then you begin to see that this could not have been just somebody making it up as he went along.
	www.josephsmith.com /About_Joseph_Smith.htm (676 words)

	Joseph Smith Polygamy Sex LDS Mormon
		Verses 62-63: And if he [Joseph Smith] have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified....
		In total, 13 faithful latter-day saint women who were married to Joseph Smith swore court affidavits that they had sexual relations with him.
		Joseph and I went to B[enjamin] F. Johnsons to sleep." Johnson himself later noted that on this visit Smith stayed with Almera "as man and wife" and "occupied the same room and bed with my sister, that the previous month he had occupied with the daughter of the late Bishop Partridge as his wife.
	www.i4m.com /think/history/joseph_smith_sex.htm (1311 words)

	Amazon.com: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: Books: Richard Lyman Bushman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joseph Smith claimed that he was visited by an angel who gave him golden plates from which he transcribed the Book of Mormon, and he had organized a church before he was twenty-five.
		Joseph Smith's teachings have endured and have developed in exactly the manner that one would expect and that the Prophet predicted.
		Joseph, like all the Prophets before and since, summed it up correctly when he stated that though he made mistakes, there were no errors in the revelations he gave to the Church.
	www.amazon.com /Joseph-Smith-Rough-Stone-Rolling/dp/1400042704 (2491 words)

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