moksha wrote:Potentially it holds an account of how young Joseph and Ignacio Scalia from Palermo were caught late one night in the Palmyra Busy Bee performing some secret and sacred ordinances of the International Order of St. Hubertus on a pool table. If it does hold such an account you must tell no one you read it here first.
Joseph Smith, bisexual. Now, that would be an amazing disclosure!
No way. Young Joseph and Scalia were simply reenacting the incantations of the St. Hubertus Order to see if they could find buried treasure and get a harem. Incidentally, Ignacio Scalia was able to pass these same incantations on to his great great great grandnephew Antonin Scalia.
kairos wrote:May be wrong but i think Signature books published Clayton's diaries a few years back- i bought a copy which i can only remember at the moment the days around Joseph Smith death and BY's intense interest in getting the endowments done for hundreds of memebers before departing for the West in Early 1846. I was not shocked by anything in the book-perhaps there is additional Clayton material not published yet.
Anyone know?
The historians noted (as of sept 2017) the diaries remain under lock and key. They noted that Andrew Ehat got short term access to them for his masters thesis back in the 80's.
kairos wrote:May be wrong but i think Signature books published Clayton's diaries a few years back- i bought a copy which i can only remember at the moment the days around Joseph Smith death and BY's intense interest in getting the endowments done for hundreds of memebers before departing for the West in Early 1846. I was not shocked by anything in the book-perhaps there is additional Clayton material not published yet.
Anyone know?
The historians noted (as of sept 2017) the diaries remain under lock and key. They noted that Andrew Ehat got short term access to them for his masters thesis back in the 80's.
That's my understanding as well. We only have parts of the Clayton Journals and the rest are safely hidden with the Church.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
Exiled wrote:We only have parts of the Clayton Journals and the rest are safely hidden with the Church.
Here is just the preliminary barrier to be passed in Vault F in Little Cottonwood Canyon where the Clayton Journal fragments are safely stored away from the Adversary.