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...people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue...
...were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
...Prophet. Joseph Smith explained that the Book of Mormon was the new expression of the everlasting Gospel. The import of this revelation was clear. Joseph Smith was God's Prophet, Seer, Revelator and mouthpiece. On the raw frontier in Jackson County, Mo., he established the "true church." Thousands flocked to him-and were persecuted with him-until, after eight years of moving, mobbings, house burnings and guerrilla warfare, Smith sent the Mormons into Illinois. There they began building a new temple, and a new town: Nauvoo...
...caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind was undoubtedly diabolic (history is studded with malign political geniuses). But it is no help in understanding...
...Sudanese boatman, turned religious seer, involved the British Empire in a sticky little war. Mohamed Ahmed, who had declared himself the Mahdi, the long-awaited messiah of Islamic tradition, had whipped his dervish followers into a frenzied jihad (holy war) against the Sudan's Egyptian rulers. Since Egypt was under British occupation, Britain sent solemn, Bible-reading General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon* to restore order. Instead, the fanatical dervishes bottled up the undermanned British garrison in Khartoum, hacked Gordon to death with their swords...