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	Wikinfo \| Golden Plates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She said she saw the angel Moroni, conversed with him, and was shown the gold plates as a comfort and testimony to her while she kept house for a large party during the translation work (Peterson, H. Donl.
		The plates of Nephi (sometimes the "large plates of Nephi") — the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved upon the Golden Plates.
		Referring to Smith's statement that the plates "had the appearance of gold," some have speculated that the metal of the plates was tumbaga, the name given by the Spaniards to a versatile alloy of gold and copper which could "be cast, drawn, hammered, gilded, soldered, welded, plated, hardened, annealed, polished, engraved, embossed, and inlaid."
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Golden_Plates (2162 words)

	The Voree Plates - Mormon scriptures - brass plates
		Later facsimile editions are less precise representations of the original brass plates, and in the absence of the plates themselves this early printed facsimile is the closest depiction possible of what was either Strang's cleverest scheme or his most sacred feat.
		Other remarkable observations of Reed, for example, include a description of the box in which the Voree Plates were found, "a box of blue clay, six inches square and twelve inches long" and a characterization of how the plates were fastened together with a wire ring.
		The Voree Record is a genuine record as he said it was, and translated as he said it was.
	www.strangite.org /Plates.htm (3506 words)

	Voree, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voree is an unincorporated community on the outskirts of present-day Burlington, Wisconsin.
		A hill in Voree, known as the "Hill of Promise" was location where the Voree Plates, purportedly containing the ancient record of "Rajah Manchou of Vorito", were unearthed.
		Opposition in Beaver Island led to the expulsion of the Strangites and to the fatal wounding of Strang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voree,_Wisconsin (305 words)

	Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: Warsaw Signal (1846-47)
		The writing on the plates resembles a mixture of Hebrew and short hand or stenography, and is unintelligible of course to man or beast, though Strang claims to be able to translate it.
		Smith, "brother to the martyred prophet, and one of the Twelve Apostles of the prophet James J. Strang, the true successor of Joseph Smith, Jr.," was to lecture in the Peoria Court House, on the 27th ultimo.
		Voree is to be built up as one of the stakes of Zion, according to, & in fulfillment of, revelation; though the seat of the Indian mission, (Big Beaver Island in Lake Michigan,) is to be the great corner stake of Zion, according to another revelation.
	www.sidneyrigdon.com /dbroadhu/IL/sign1846.htm (11098 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Golden Plates
		The brass plates originally in the custody of Laban, containing the writings of Old Testament prophets before the Babylonian Exile, as well as the otherwise unknown prophets Zenos and Zenoch, and possibly others.
		The large plates of Nephi, the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved on the Golden Plates.
		Although after Smith's assassination the Kinderhook Plates were presumed lost, for decades The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published facsimiles of them in its official History of the Church as evidence that ancient Americans wrote on metal plates.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Golden_Plates (1483 words)

	Christianity / biblical canon / golden plates
		Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses, stated that he held the plates on his lap for an hourand a half prior to becoming one of the Witnesses.
		The large plates of Nephi — the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved upon the Golden Plates.
		Religious works were also kept on metal "plates." Stories of gold, silver, copper and brass books existed in Masonic Hiram Abiff and Enoch legends, and part of the the Dead Sea Scrolls collection called the Copper Scroll (there were multiple copper scolls) were found in 1952 in Cave 3 at Qumran.
	www.christianity-guide.com /christianity/golden_plates.htm (2441 words)

	New age / angel / oliver cowdery
		He was one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.
		During the translation of the Golden Plates, Cowdery and Smith claimed they were present together on May 15, 1829 and a second time that month, when angels gave them priesthood authority.
		Cowdery also said that the final battle between the Nephites and the Lamanites had occurred in the vicinity of the Hill Cumorah, where Smith claimed he found the golden plates.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/oliver_cowdery.htm (1484 words)

	Voree Plates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Voree Plates were excavated in 1845 near Burlington, Wisconsin by four men who were acting under the direction of the prophet James Strang.
		A statement in the Chronicles of Voree, which was a handwritten church journal, says that the translation made by James Strang was a translation "in part" of the plates.
		It also seems that a double dot or a triple dot is used on the Voree Plates to indicate the end of a sentence, and a quadruple dot is used to end a paragraph.
	www.vorsoft.com /faith/rajah (1203 words)

	Oliver Cowdery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the translation of the Golden Plates, Cowdery and Smith claimed they were present together on May 15, 1829 when he and Smith had received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist, after which they had baptized each other in the Susquehanna River.
		He later was sent to Monroe, Michigan where he became President of the Bank of Monroe, which the Church bought as a partner to the bank in Kirtland.
		In 1847, Oliver moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin near Strang's headquarters in Voree and went into law practice with his brother.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Oliver_Cowdery.htm (1696 words)

	Thomas Gregg's The Prophet of Palmyra, Part 1)
		And then the angel Nephi went on to reveal to him the existence of the "golden plates," the "Urim and Thummim," and the "breastplates," and "silver bows," and that the possession and use of these was what constituted seers in olden times, and that God had prepared these for his use.
		During all the years previous to his receiving the plates, so the story runs, he had been the subject of violent and cruel persecution, because of his declaration and continued protestation that he "had seen a vision." And now, that the promised precious relics were in his possession, this persecution increased with redoubled force.
		plates themselves, which were carefully locked up in a trunk, but that he had the trunk in his possession.
	www.solomonspalding.com /docs1/1890GrgA.htm (14191 words)

	Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 153
		There are no plates numbers 2, 21 and 39, as noted by Wagner-Camp, and these numbers are omitted in the list of plates.
		Also missing are 5 of the 8 reptile plates; one panoramic plate is torn in two, the other with partial tear.
		The plates which are present only in the first edition are well designed and perhaps are the earliest of sporting scenes in the West." The plates are titled "Mr.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat153-11.html (5596 words)

	Voree Plates, Ancient Race of Burlington Wisconsin - THE BUFO FILES with Mary Sutherland and Laura Held, BUFO ...
		The Voree Plates were excavated in 1845 near Burlington, Wisconsin by four men who were acting under the direction of James Strang, Strang 7:1-5.
		The translation given below of the Voree Plates was made in 1845 by James Strang, Strang 8:1-4.
		Strang fortold that this temple would manifest not far from where the plates were found.
	www.burlingtonnews.net /talk-voreeplates1.html (1217 words)

	Priesthood
		And the revelation to the Prophet James, by the divine word of the plates at Voree, is probably the best proved, to this generation, of any miracle since the world began.
		While he was conversing with me about the plates, the vision was opened to my mind that I could see the place where the plates were deposited, and that so clearly and distinctly that I knew the place again when I visited it.
		I left the field, and went to the place where the messenger had told me the plates were deposited; and owing to the distinctness of the vision which I had had concerning it, I knew the place the instant that I arrived there.
	www.gospelofchrist.org /priesthood.htm (14931 words)

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		When he asked Martin why he had done so he replied, to stop the mouths of fools who had declared that the Prophet knew by heart all that he told him to write, and did not see by the seerstone; when the true stone was placed in the hat, the translation was resumed, as usual.
		There was also a transcript of a portion of the characters as found on the golden plates taken or copied on a small piece of paper, perhaps about six or seven inches by four or five.
		She calculated it would bring in annually an enormous sum of money-that money would then be very plenty, and the book would also sell for a great price, as it was something entirely new-that they bad been commanded to obtain all the money they could borrow for present necessity, and to repay with gold.
	balder.prohosting.com /sywu/harris2.htm (19301 words)

	Revelations of James J. Strang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yea, let those who will, consecrate unto me and pay into the treasury of the church which is at Voree the value of their labor.
		Translation of the Voree Record by the Prophet James, by Urim and Thummim, September 18, 1845, as revealed in the foregoing revelation.
		At Voree shall your possessions be purchased with money; and ye shall make speed to redeem that which ye have purchased.
	members.aol.com /strangites/rhurd44884/Rev.1.htm (6252 words)

	Voree Plates Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The plates exhibit a large variation in the way that these characters are drawn, and it is difficult in the extreme to know which variations are accidental and which are significant for distinguishing one letter from another.
		However, I did use my awareness of the repeated words on the plates in an attempt to determine which handwriting variations were insignificant.
		The characters that consist of a single stroke might represent vowels in which the angle of the stroke distinguishes the vowel, for example "a", "e", and "o".
	www.vorsoft.com /faith/rajah/alphabet.htm (366 words)

	The Changing World of Mormonism, Chapter 5, The Book of Mormon, Part 1: The Witnesses, by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The angel explained that the plates contained "an account of the former inhabitants of this continent," and that they also contained "the fulness of the everlasting Gospel." Four years later, on September 22, 1827, he received the plates, and sometime later he began to translate them.
		The second statement is signed by eight men who claimed to seethe plates, although they did not claim that an angel showed the plates to them.
		He had witnesses who claimed they saw the plates and their testimony is recorded in almost the same way that the testimony of the eleven witnesses is recorded in the Book of Mormon.
	www.xmission.com /~country/chngwrld/chap5a.htm (6348 words)

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		Moroni told Smith he was a resurrected being who had lived many centuries earlier on the American continent and that there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the sources from whence they sprang.
		Degree of the Scottish Rite (updated circa 1870 by Albert Pike but originally from earlier French Masonic Rituals) which speaks of exploring a shaft in the ground and descending through nine arches to the hewn chamber where Enoch had hidden the treasure buried before the flood.
		The treasure was a triangular plate of gold with the Lost Word (Ineffable word written in the Hebrew letters) written upon it.
	www.masonicbuilders.org /Article_MormonMason.htm (8979 words)

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		Description of one side of one of the Voree Plates.
		The symbol of God, who is all-seeing: consequently it is called THE ALL-SEEING EYE, and has been used as symbolical of the DEITY in all countries, and in all ages of the world.
		Ten of these in two rows at the bottom of the plate, and the other two over them, nearly between the sun and moon.
	members.aol.com /strangites/rhurd44884/vp.htm (494 words)

	Reviews -- James Strang and the Midwest Mormons
		Technically Oliver was also a designated successor; but I remain perplexed as to why Strang was attracted to Bennett and Adams, knowing their reputations before they ever came to Voree.
		Strang encouraged his followers to settle in Voree, Wisconsin, and later on Beaver Island, a remote inhabited island off the coast of western Michigan.
		He took his followers to Voree (Burlington) Wisconsin, where he built a temple and the members lived a communal order, very much like the LDS Church did.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/strang.htm (2800 words)

	Tracking the White Salamander - Chapter 7
		The plates contained 'an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang.' More important than this, however, they contained 'the fullness of the everlasting Gospel.' According to the Mormon leaders, the Book of Mormon is far superior to the Bible because it contains the 'pure' words of Christ.
		Since Mark Hofmann claimed to have the Kinderhook plates, it is obvious that he knew that Joseph Smith made a false translation of some of the characters on these bogus plates.
		Juanita Brooks said that David McKenzie was engaged to engrave the plates for the Deseret currency, and while thus engaged he lived with the family of Brigham Young in the Beehive House.
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/trackingch7.htm (11312 words)

	Charlevoix County Michigan Genealogy & History
		Most of the government lands had been taken up at Voree, and consequently there were few opportunities to hold out to new arrivals whose possessions were limited to what they had on their backs.
		They made a report, published in Strang’s newspaper at Voree, the Voree Herald, emphasizing the economic opportunities of the island and also the opportunity to evangelize the Indians.
		During the winter Strang was vouchsafed some new revelations, being a portion of the record of the “plates of Laban.” Among other things they foretold that the Kingdom of God was to be reestablished on earth, and that “his servant James” was to occupy the throne as his vicegerent.
	genealogytrails.com /mich/charlevoix/citybeavermormon.html (2847 words)

	Church History Volume 3, Chapter 2
		city shall be called Voree, which is, being interpreted, garden of peace; for there shall my people have peace and rest and wax fat and pleasant in the presence of their enemies.
		He claimed further to have found by direction some plates known as the plates of Laban from which he translated what is known as the "Book of the Law." This was published in book form and is still extant.
		It was probably from this Book of the Law that Elder Strang received his teaching in favor of polygamy, and not, as many have supposed, from the teaching and practice of the church at Nauvoo prior to the death of Joseph Smith.
	www.centerplace.org /history/ch/v3ch02.htm (16386 words)

	Autobiography of Howard Coray (1817-1900) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harris describes the plates as being of thin leaves of gold, measuring seven by eight inches, and weighing altogether, from forty to sixty lbs.
		There was also found in the chest, the Urim and Thummim, by means of which the writing upon the plates was translated, but not until after the most learned men had exhausted their knowledge of letters in the vain effort to decipher the characters.
		It had been revealed to Joseph Smith that the writing upon the tablets contained a history of the aborigines of this country down to the time of Columbus' discovery, and after, all human means had failed to secure a translation, Smith was commissioned to undertake the task.
	www.boap.org /LDS/Early-Saints/MHarris.html (19261 words)

	MORMON 20
		The angel explained that the plates contained "an account of the former inhabitants of this continent," and that they also contained "the fulness [sic] of the everlasting Gospel." Four years later, on September 22, 1827, he received the plates, and sometime later he began to translate them.
		The second statement is signed by eight men who claimed to see the plates, although they did not claim that an angel showed the plates to them.
		They claimed that "an angel of God came down from heaven, and he brought and laid before our eyes, that we beheld and saw the plates, and the engravings thereon...." When we consider, however, how credulous and visionary the three witnesses were, even this testimony is not impressive.
	www.ondoctrine.com /1mormo20.htm (6482 words)

	ROBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Strang claims he translated metallic plates and eleven witnesses signed testimonies that they saw the plates--none ever denied their testimony.
		The testimony of the Voree Plates is in the Revelations of James J. Strang, and the testimony to the Book of the Law of the Lord precedes that book.
		Brigham Young was summoned to a trial and excommunicated by a high council on April 6, 1846.
	www.mormonhaven.com /robert.htm (335 words)

	Excerpt ~ Mormon Polygamy: A History
		Amidst the pomp and ceremony Strang read to the congregation for the first time his "Book of the Law of the Lord," a portion of which he claimed was a translation of the "plates of Laban," part of the Book of Mormon record.
		For example, the July 1846 Voree Herald contained a certificate endorsing Strang, reportedly prepared by the prophet's brother William and signed by the entire Smith family, except Emma, Smith's widow.
		At Voree, Wisconsin, Strang's "Garden of Peace," Bennett became "the Prime Minister for the Imperial Primate of the Order of the Illuminati"—Strang's chief advisor.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/mp.htm (2880 words)

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