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Vision, 16 February 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 76]

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“The Vision,” [
Hiram Township

Area settled by immigrants from Pennsylvania and New England, ca. 1802. Located in northeastern Ohio about twenty-five miles southeast of Kirtland. Population in 1830 about 500. Population in 1840 about 1,100. JS lived in township at home of John and Alice...

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, Portage Co., OH, 16 Feb. 1832]. Version copied [ca. Apr. 1832] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [63]–[75]; handwriting of
Sidney Gilbert

28 Dec. 1789–29 June 1834. Merchant. Born at New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Son of Eli Gilbert and Lydia Hemingway. Moved to Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; to Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan Territory, by Sept. 1818; to Painesville, Geauga Co...

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; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]

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every man shall receive according to his own works & his own dominion in the mansions which are prepared, & they Shall be servants of the most high, but where God & Christ dwell they Cannot Come worlds without End.— This is the end of the Vision which we saw & which we were
commanded

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

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to write while we were yet in the Spirit.— But great & marvellous are the works of the Lord & the mysteries of his kingdom which he shewed unto us, which surpasseth all understanding in glory & in might & in dominion which he Commanded us we should not write, while we were yet in the Spirit & are not lawful for man to utter, neither is man capable to make them known, for they are only to be seen & understood by the Holy Ghost which God bestoweth on those who love him & purify themselves before him to whom he grants this privilege of seeing & knowing for themselves, that through the power & manifestation of the Spirit while in the flesh they may be able to bear his [p. [74]]
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