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James Macpherson's Ossian myths of the mid-late 1700s may be of some relevance here. Rick Grunder kindly provided me with this excerpt from his excellent "Mormon Parallels": m This was also a fun read. A Printing Devil, a Scottish Mummy, and an Edinburgh Book of the Dead: James Hogg’s Nap...

I only have a minute to post this because I'm on the way from seeing Der Meistersinger at the Guggenhein to having dinner with a pair of Nobel Prize winners (and I want everyone to know that I don't really care about this topic anyway and have only thought about it twice this year), but I have a fe...

Interesting sidenote. Silvestre de Sacy was the first to translate from the Book of Enoch. "Better success was achieved by the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who, in 1773, returned to Europe from six years in Abyssinia with three copies of a Ge’ez version…the copies remained unused unti...

The James Hogg material is remarkable. Anywhere one dips in there is a strong resemblance to the Book of Mormon: One of my favorites: 41 And he that was like unto the messenger of a king, said unto me, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? for the day of vengeance is come upon all those that ruled the...

This was a fine suggestion, and it is worthy of further exploration. I would ask, however, that we also consider the very strong possibility that the Gentile in question is not someone so late as Sir Francis Drake, but instead the Welsh prince, Madoc, whom John Dee believed had visited America in t...

And might I suggest another curious lurker at the Sibly bookshop? Meet Roger O'Connor , Irish author living in London in 1801. known for his translation work on the Chronicles of Eri, ancient manuscripts written in the Phoenician dialect of the Scythian language, which have, "fortunately for th...

Since the other thread has grounded to a halt, but there are many questions that remain to be explored, I thought I would start this new thread to cultivate our continuing study into the evolution of Mormonism from John Dee's New World Atlantean Imperialism. These are exciting time for Mormon Studi...

It was assumed by some English wizards that America was the home of remnants of Atlantean civilization. In Biblical terms, the society before the Flood or perhaps the Tower of Babel. The Book of Mormon saga really begins with the latter. Jaredite civilization is not only a prequel to the downfall o...

there is some question about the identity of the magician to whom various witnesses refer. Was it always Walter or was there another gentleman too? Was this other gentleman Sibly? There is the "well dressed gentleman" who often gets confused with Sidney Rigdon. Was this Walter? Was it Sib...

The idea of a spirit translation committee is known in theosophy. I'll have to hunt better references down, but this is what I found with a quick search: "It is Swedenborg, Maitland, Kingsford, and Placidus (all having died, some very recently, by the time Ouseley received this work) who receiv...