Some years ago, I advanced a docterine with regard to adam <being our father and God>, that will be a curse to many of the Elders of Israel because of their folly. With regard to it they yet grovel in darknesse and will. Yet It is one of the most glorious of revealments of the economy of heaven, yet upon it the world holds it division. Had I revealed the docterine of baptism from the dead instead Joseph Smith there are men around me who would have rediculed the idea until dooms day. But they are ignorant <and stupid> like the dumb ass.