WHHS discusses Kolob, calls it a star, speculates on its nature and physics.

Date
Sep 15, 1882
Type
Periodical
Source
W. H. H. Sharp
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

W. H. H. Sharp, "Astronomy and the Pyramid of Gizeh," Our Deseret Home 1, no. 9 (September 15, 1882): 194

Scribe/Publisher
Our Deseret Home
People
W. H. H. Sharp
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

This star is named Kolob and is next to where God personally presides or in other words; First is the dwelling place of God; an immence Urim and Thummim, a planet illuminated ten thousand times tea thousand degrees, more brilliant than the sun, and probably millions of times more so, next or second comes Kolob receiving its powers from the Urim and Thummim or throne of God.—ruling and imparting light and heat unto all the planets that revolve around it, and also imparting illumination and power of rule and government to the next sun center below. In connection with this Urim and Thummim the dwelling place of God there is also another grand governing center whose time and measurement is the same as "Kolob," but it appears it has its power of rule, is extended in a north direction from that of Kolob as it receives its light like Kolob from the Urim and Thummim or planet upon which God dwells.

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