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Ten Commandments

Thou shalt have no other gods before me—

—but that’s not to say you should only have one God. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost: All one God, but at the same time three, like a three-leaf clover, or the anatomy of an egg, or Neapolitan ice cream, or whichever analogy suits your fancy. Not monotheistic, but monolatrous.

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #2: Heavier Than the Darkness Were They to Themselves

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

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“For those who claimed to drive away fears and troubles from sick souls

Were sick themselves with ridiculous fear

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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #1: Wisdom—More Mobile Than Any Motion

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

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“All that was secret or manifest I learned,

For wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. . . .

For wisdom is more mobile than any motion,

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