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Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.
[I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision [1]
Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):
he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the son of God; <and I saw many angels in this vision> I was about 14. years old when I received this first communication; When I was about 17 years old I saw another vision of angels, in the night season after I had retired to bed[2]
Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):
up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old and also the the visitations that I received afterward, concerning the book of Mormon[3]
I had seen a vision, I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it[4]
I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages[5]
Orson Pratt:
Some time after having received this glorious manifestation, being young, he was again entangled in the vanities of the world, of which he afterwards sincerely and truly repented. [6]
Some time after he had been given these heavenly revelations (in his earlier years), he lapsed into the errors and vanities of the world, which he later was genuinely sorry for.[7]
The vision then vanished, and when I come to my self, I was sprawling on my back; and it was sometime before my strength returned. When I went home and told the people that I had a revelation[8]
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