Category:First Vision/Name of theophany

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By what names was the event known as the "First Vision" originally called

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Joseph Smith (1832): " [I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision "

Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.

[I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision [1]


Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the son of God; <and I saw many angels in this vision> I was about 14. years old when I received this first communication; When I was about 17 years old I saw another vision of angels, in the night season after I had retired to bed[2]


Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old and also the the visitations that I received afterward, concerning the book of Mormon[3]


Joseph Smith (1838): "I had seen a vision"

I had seen a vision, I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it[4]


Joseph Smith (1842): "I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision"

I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages[5]


Orson Pratt (1840): "Some time after having received this glorious manifestation"

Orson Pratt:

Some time after having received this glorious manifestation, being young, he was again entangled in the vanities of the world, of which he afterwards sincerely and truly repented. [6]

Source:Orson Pratt:A Cry out of the Wilderness:These heavenly revelations

Notes

  1. "History, circa Summer 1832," The Joseph Smith Papers.
  2. "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
  3. "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
  4. "History, circa June 1839–circa 1841 [Draft 2,"] The Joseph Smith Papers.
  5. "“Church History,” 1 March 1842," The Joseph Smith Papers.
  6. "Appendix: Orson Pratt, A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840," The Joseph Smith Papers.