Joe Geisner wrote:I do know that Jed Rogers, historian and researcher extraordinaire, is doing a full length documentary book on the YTFIF about the Utah period.
Kishkumen wrote:I find it very interesting that two of the splinter groups which practiced the endowment were led by men who had been in YTFIF: Wight and Cutler.
What does YTFIF mean? Is it "fifty" spelled backwards? If so, why not just write it "50," "fifty," or "Council of Fifty?"
It was secret and people sought various ways to obsure its name when they wrote in their journals. Some of their attempts weren't that clever.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
I disagree that the treason charge would have landed him in prison. His followers would have lied, potential witnesses would have been killed, and any Natives willing to testify would have been discounted because of their subhuman status in the culture of the times. Even Gov. Ford stated that prosecution would have been very difficult.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.