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The Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments as First Revealed in the Vision: Some Observations on History, Sources, and Interpretation

The Vision (1832)is one of the most important revelations of the formative period of Mormon theological development, where novel and controversial doctrines of the afterlife first made their appearance.In a recent study I explored how The Vision expanded upon revealed teachings from the Book of Mormon and prior revelations, resolved some inherited theological problems, and set the stage for the unfolding of uniquely Mormon doctrines and practices.There I observed that The Vision appears to be a conflation of several independent sources. Literary evidence for this conclusion includes duplications, interruptions, awkward transitions, deletions, and variances in vocabulary, style, and setting.

Grand Canyon, North Rim

The canyon is in the pines, 
you find it there in sharps and flats, 
rush at the edge, a thousand 
improvisations of rain, needles, light fall.