Yeah, I think that the Book of Abraham talks about Kolob, the planet nearest the star where God (Elohim) lives. The Book of Abraham is Smith's supposed translation of a text supposedly written by Abraham on papyri that were sold to Smith in Ohio by a traveling mummy exhibitor in the 1830s (no, I'm not making this up). Smith worked on it for several years, actually trying to decipher hieroglyphics despite not knowing any foreign languages. Of course, when people such as Champolion did decipher hieroglyphics they quickly noted that Smith's papyri were in fact common funerary instructions from the Book of Breathings.
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:24 pm (UTC)