04 - First Vision Part 2

Orson Pratt's "A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions" lays out the familiar first vision story to what we know today. It seems to align pretty directly with the doctrine that is still taught in the church today. He also lays out kind of a precursor to the articles of faith. In Allen's piece, we learn that there was not a lot of awareness about the first vision until much later in Mormon history. Anti-Mormon literature did not focus a lot on the first vision, perhaps because of this lack of awareness. Allen describes a church that is largely compatible with the protestant church, in contrast with Pratt's description of the more distinct and developed LDS beliefs.

Notes

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• Orson Pratt is first one to publish First Vision
• "two glorious personages, who exactly resembled each other".
• Joseph sometimes had ghost writers
• The wentworth letter might have been one of those cases
• He was the editor of the Times and Seasons magazine

The Wentworth letter matches pretty closely some of the 1840 Pratt account

we should make a MORMON spinoff of wild kratts called WildPratts

There are a lot of hands involved!

The first vision goes from PRIVATE -> PUBLIC 1870s and 1880s