Visions of Moses, June 1830, as Recorded in Richards, Pocket Companion [Moses 1]
Source Note
“A Revelation given to Joseph the Seer June 1833 [1830],” Visions of Moses, [, Seneca Co., NY, or , Susquehanna Co., PA (or possibly or , NY)], June 1830. Version copied [ca. 1838] in Willard Richards, “W. Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” pp. 86–93; handwriting of ; Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, between ca. 26 June and ca. 4 Aug. 1839–A, as Reported by Willard Richards.
and mine only begotten is & shall be for he is full of grace & truth. but there is no other God. besides me & all things are present with me. for I know them all & now behold this one thing I say unto thee Moses my Son for thou art in the world & now I show it thee And it came to pass that Moses looked & beheld the world upon which he was created, & as Moses beheld the world & the end thereof & all the children of men which was & which was created of the Same he greatly marvelled & wondered and the presence of <the Lord> God with drew form Moses that his glory was not upon Moses & Moses was left unto himself and as he was left unto himself he fell unto the Earth and it came to pass that it was for the space of many hours before Moses did recover his Natural strength like unto man & he saith unto himself now for this Cause I know that man is nothing which thing I never had supposd but now Mine Eyes Mine Eyes but not Mine [p. 87]