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- From: SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen)
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- Subject: Heinlein, Magick and Mormonism
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:59:08 EST
- Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island USA
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- On the subject of Joseph Smith Jr. (the prophet of the Mormon Church) as a
- practicing ceremonial magician (like his father before him) see now the
- superb book by J. Michael Quinn, with a title something like _Early Mor-
- monism and the Magical World View_, published by Signature Books in Salt
- Lake City. It even gives photographs of the magical knives, talismans and
- shewstones preserved in Smith's family and the families of other early
- Mormons. I have heard, but do not know whether it it so, that the author
- lost his professorship at Brigham Young Univ. in consequence of this book.
-
- Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, SL500000@BROWNVM
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