Revelation, September 1830–A, as Recorded in Hyde and Smith, Notebook [D&C 29]
Source Note
Revelation, [, Seneca Co., NY], [Sept. 1830]. Version copied between [ca. 25 Jan. and 1 Feb. 1832] in Hyde and Smith, Notebook, [29]–[38]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL.
me because of their agency and They were Thrust down & thus came the and his angels & behold a place prepared for them from the beginning which place is hell and must be that the Devil should tempt the children of men or they cannot be agents unto themselves for if they never should have bitter they would not know the sweet wherefore it came to pass that the Devil tempted Adam & he partook of the forbidden fruit and transgressed the wherefore he became subject to the will of the Devil because he yielded to temptation wherefore I the Lord God caused that he should be cast out from the garden of Eden from my presence because of his transgression wherein he became spiritally dead which is the first Death even that that same death which is the last death which is spiritual which shall be pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say depart ye cursed but behold [p. [36]]