In this episode of the historical narrative, Jo the occultist now prophet secures a copyright for the book of Mormon, as well as three men to testify as witnesses to Jo’s divine abilities, much in the same way one collects testimonies for a court case. Afterwards, Jo directed a group hallucination or vision of the Plates, which as we discussed looks a lot like Jo’s first successfully orchestrated multiple participant entheogenic session.

References

- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman
- Mormonism Unveiled, by E.B. Howe
- The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844., by John Brooke
- Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn
- Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and his Progenitors for many Generations, by Lucy Mack Smith
- Hearts Made Glad: The charges of Intemperance against Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet, by Lamar Peterson
- No Man Knows My History, by Fawn Brodie
- The Book of Mormon (1830 edition), by Joseph Smith Junior
- The True Origin of the Book of Mormon, by Charles A. Shook
- Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism, by Tucker, Pomeroy