Private revelations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Book of revelations
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236587]
Identifier: MSS SC 214
Scope and Contents
Includes eight revelations relating to individuals and Mormon doctrine, written in the hand of Annie Taylor Hyde.
Dates:
1882-1884
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Book of revelations
Copies of revelations
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1857
Scope and Contents
Two handwritten booklets. One booklet is a list of people which were persecuted and imprisoned for polygamy in Utah and Idaho. The other item includes copies of a "revelation" (26 Jan. 1880) by the Mormon Apostle, Wilford Woodruff, concerning obedience to the Mormon Church and an excerpt from his journal on the dedication of the St. George Temple in 1877; a list of 28 women believed to have been "sealed" to Joseph Smith (1805-1844); "testimonies" of Mormon Church members; a "revelation"...
Dates:
1869-1900
George S. Tanner papers
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305184]
Identifier: MSS SC 775
Scope and Contents
Retrospective account transcribed by the author from his diary. Record of a revelation received by an unnamed Moenkopi Indian who prayed to know the truth about the Book of Mormon. He was told in a vision to believe the things his Mormon brethern had told him, and to obey their words. The Indian also saw the coming persecutions against the Mormon Church for polygamy and many other events as well. Author believed that most of what the Indian saw had come to pass by 1890.Entitled:...
Dates:
1881-1890
Newel Knight autobiography
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8414
Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of Newel Knight's original autobiography. The autobiography was prepared by Knight's wife, Lydia, in 1871, twenty-four years after Knight's death. The manuscript covers material from 1800 to 1846, but it mostly focuses on events between 1830 and 1846 when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were living in the East Coast and the Midwest. The autobiography contains information about the early Church, traveling west in 1846, and Knight's own family as...
Dates:
1871
A remarkable prophecy by president John Taylor
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322353]
Identifier: MSS SC 2320
Scope and Contents
Typewritten revelation written down by Edward Lunt. Lunt claimed that the material in the revelation was told to him by his mother many times. His mother supposedly got the information from the third president of the Mormon Church, John Taylor (1808-1887). Sometimes called the "Horseshoe Prophecy" the revelation states that there would be a major falling away from the leadership of the Mormon Church, that blood would run in the gutters of Salt Lake City, Utah, and that the faithful Mormons...
Dates:
1951
The story of the dream mine
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307115]
Identifier: MSS SC 940
Scope and Contents
C. F. Weight, a worker of the "Dream Mine," relates how he met and worked in the gold mine for Bishop Koyle. The narration includes numerous spiritual experiences concerning Koyle's farm, his mission, and his founding and directing of the mine's operations. Koyle saw how everything was to be done in a series of dreams.
Dates:
1915