Joseph Smith Papers description of Seer Stones and seeing things not visible to the natural eye.
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- Website
- Source
- The Joseph Smith Papers LDS
- Hearsay
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- Reference
"Seer Stone," Glossary, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed July 14, 2021
- Scribe/Publisher
- The Joseph Smith Papers
- People
- The Joseph Smith Papers
- Audience
- Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
- Transcription
According to a European tradition of folk belief reaching back at least into the middle ages, quartz crystals or other stones could be used to find missing objects or to see other things not visible to the natural eye.
- BHR Staff Commentary
Scholarly background on history of seer stones.
- Citations in Mormonr Qnas
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