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FootnoteFull quote: “When properly invoked, with Jupiter being very powerful and ruling in the heavens, these intelligences—by the power of ancient magic—guaranteed to the possessor of this talisman the gain of riches, and favor, and power, and love and peace; and to...

FootnoteD. Michael Quinn. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, 2nd edition, 1998, p.59.

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FootnoteFull quote: “…Joseph had a little ambition, and some very laudable aspirations; the mother’s intellect occasionally shone out in him feebly, especially when he used to help us to solve some portentous questions of moral or political ethics, in our juvenile...

FootnoteWilliam Smith wrote of his brother: “That he [Joseph] was illitterate to some extent is admitted but that he was enterly unlettered is a mistake. In Sintax, authography, Mathamatics, grammar, geography with other studies in the Common Schools of his day he was...

FootnoteVogel. Early Mormon Documents. 1996, 2:326

FootnoteLucy Mack Smith, Preliminary manuscript of Biographical Sketches, p. 49, quote found in Biographical Sketches on page 84.