Richard F. Burton summarizes LDS theology, discusses LDS understanding of Kolob.

Date
1861
Type
Book
Source
Richard F. Burton
Non-LDS
Hearsay
2nd Hand
Reference

Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), 474

Scribe/Publisher
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
People
Richard F. Burton
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Of prophetic times, it may be observed, that the habitat of God the Father is the planet Kolob, whose revolutions—one of which is the beginning and the end of a day equal to 1000 terrestrial years—are the measure of heavenly time. The Deity being finite, employs agents and auxiliaries, e.g. light, sound, electricity, inspiration, to communicate knowledge to his world of worlds. An angel commissioned as a messenger to earth is taken either from the chief or from a minor planet, and it naturally measures time by the days and weeks, the months and years, of its own home—a style of computation which must not a little confuse our poor human chronology.

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