Peter Levenda
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2,372 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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So he was a kind of a sorcerer.
And the book that was very popular at the time when Joseph Smith started was a book called The Magus, by the way.
Francis Barrett wrote this compendium of Middle Ages kind of astrology, necromancy, ritual magic, all of this stuff, most of it from Aquinas.
Most of it from Aquinas.
Middle-age sources that were very popular at the time that tried to unite astrology with a lot of other different practices.
A lot of it was influenced by Middle Eastern, Arab, and Islamic magic, as well as Jewish magic.
Yeah, supposedly they were magicians originally.
So this book is very thick and it was really popular because it had all of the stuff in there, how to conjure devils and how to conjure angels and how to do this and how to do that.
And this was the kind of material that Joseph Smith had access to at the time.
And his thing was to find gold, to find buried treasure.
using magical means.
That was like his and his whole family were involved in doing that.
And at one point he claims he found these magic tablets on which was written what we now know as the Book of Mormon.
And they were written in hieroglyphics and he had to translate the hieroglyphics using magical means.
This was 200 years ago only.
Not 2000, just 200.
And then we can get even much closer.
If we wanted- This guy.
That guy.
Yeah.
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