Visions of Moses, June 1830, as Recorded in Phelps, Diary and Notebook [Moses 1]
Source Note
“Revelation to Joseph June 1830,” Visions of Moses, [, Seneca Co., NY, or , Susquehanna Co., PA (or possibly , Broome Co., or , Ontario Co., NY)], June 1830. Version copied [ca. 1835] in William W. Phelps, Diary and Notebook, pp. [38]–[45]; handwriting of ; CHL.
and truth; but there is no God besides me: & all things are present with me, for I know them all. And now behold this one thing I shew unto thee, Moses, my Son, for thou art in the world, and now I show it unto thee. And it came to pass, that Moses looked and beheld the world upon which he was crated and Moses beheld the world and the ends thereof and all the children of men which was and which and <are> created; of the same he greatly marvelled and wondered! and the presence of God withdrew from Moses, that his glory was not upon Moses, and Moses was left unto himself: And as he was left unto himself he fell unto the Earth, and it came to pass, that it was for thespace of many hours before Moses did again receive his natural strength like unto man: and he saith into himself, now for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed; but now mine eyes mine own eyes, but not mine eyes for mine eyes could not have beheld, for I should hav[e] withered and died in his presence, but his glory was upon me: And beheld his face for I was transfigured before him.